Jonathan Meth
Jonathan originally trained as a theatre director at Bristol Old Vic but more recently has been curating The Fence, an international network for working playwrights and people who make playwriting happen – across Europe and beyond; initially a collaboration between Writernet (UK), The British Council and Creative Renewal, and in association with the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM). He has worked as Executive Director withTheatre IS, using performing arts to develop the talents of young people across the East of England, focussing on partnerships, strategy and fundraising. And he spent 15 years as the Director of Writernet between 1995 and 2009. Formerly New Playwrights Trust, writernet was a national organization; a resource which aimed to give dramatic writers the tools they need to build better careers and change the culture in which they work.
Steve is a performer, teacher, writer, theatre and opera producer and the Artistic Director of the Wedding Collective. Their current project is Opera Machine, an ensemble of 10 professional opera singers and a chorus of refugees, asylum seekers and recent London migrants. There work is site-specific and has been for the last ten years when the company began touring two pieces, Warcrime and The Daughter that were made after research in the former Yugoslavia, Israel and Palestine. Steve brought The Vagina Monologues to the UK and produced it for six years including two years in the West End. Steve has, over the last few years been working extensively with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company, training young actors in a very physical style of theatre.
