Rachel Bown-Williams

So proud of #TheEmpress company @TheRSC who smashed their 1st preview last night. What a way to begin a month off!! Sending you all lots of love for the rest of the previews I’ll see you in London @LyricHammer if not before

Lyn Gardner: Why is it still okay for theatre to treat its freelancers so shabbily? thestage.co.uk/opinion/why-is…

@raecbw had a great time yesterday talking to the @FSULondon students about #stagingintimacy great questions, great conversations.

@elrhode @TheRSC Great news!!! Congratulations x

Well chuffed to be back @TheRSC to direct #Dream with a wicked team of collaborators.

We’d love to hear about any post performance practices or rituals you have. Our derole workshop focuses on how the stress system works and how we can learn to bring our systems back into balance. #deroling #intimacycoordination #fightdirection #stagecombat #mentalhealth #theatre

@OwenHorsley @NevillHoltOpera Have a lovely time!

HOW TO PREPARE FOR INTIMACY AND VIOLENT MOMENTS Fri 12th May 10-1pm online Prepare for scenes of a sensitive nature. Including ways to explore consent in movement, establishing boundaries and protocols for close physical action rc-annie.com/training/train… @Intimacy_IPG @rcannie

Rebecca Frecknall's interview in @TheStage has prompted me to break out a thread I have sat on for a while. It breaks down what I think is the biggest obstacle in theatre but the least openly discussed... Pay So here is the THEATRE PAY MATHS THREAD 🧵👇 thestage.co.uk/news/rebecca-f…

4 return tickets to London from Cardiff @£89.90 each £359.6 Renting a room in “digs” at £200 per week £1200 Total = £1559.6

So, if you are travelling into London to work, after agent’s fees, tax and then expenses, that £5,000 fee actually ends up leaving you £2,040 And that works out as £27.95 per day or £195.77 per week

You could be directing at a major London theatre and taking home £27.95 a day.

So what should your fee be? Well, if you requested the very reasonable sum of £150 per day, you should be earning a fee of £10,950 for that same work.

Why don't we talk about pay when we discuss the future of theatre? If we want theatre to be inclusive, to reflect the world we live in, we will NEVER achieve it while the industry, on the most BASIC level, does not even cover minimum wage.

And of course designers, lighting designers, they're all going through this too. A brilliant young designer told me that, at a @_scene_change_ organised Q&A with an established designer, the career advice they were given was "get a rich husband"...

By the way, before tax, agent fees and accommodation, this is what the LOWEST fees on that list equate to: £2490.33 = £34.11 per day £1912.50 = £26.19 per day £670 = £9.17 per day

A statement on the latest attempt to block my candidacy for Islington North.

Any recommendations for internet providers. We are leaving @TalkTalk they were brilliant for the first two years but been without internet for two weeks and they are stalling recognising that there is a problem.

@MikeThornton94 @TalkTalk Ours had been down for over a week and customer service has been really absent. Can’t get hold of anyone and when we finally convinced them that turning it on and off again wasn’t working they promised a router to arrive by Friday at the latest. Still waiting

@combatclaire Too early?!?

Coffee fail!

@cssdmaclassical So sorry to hear this.

(1/2) We are devastated to learn of the passing of MA Acting alumna Carrie Rock. Carrie was a an exceptional actor as well as a much loved coursemate, colleague, and friend.