Workshops & Learning
Rosemary Harris a degree in Drama from Australia's NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), and an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, and has studied Child Development at postgraduate level.
Rosemary is a highly experienced educator, and has led workshops and delivered creative projects for BBC Proms, English PEN, the Royal Society of Literature, the Poetry Society, Creative Partnerships, Tate Britain, De La Warr Pavilion, Jerwood Gallery, Create (Arts), Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Australian Theatre for Young People, the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA, Sydney), and many other mainstream and SEN settings.
Recently Rosemary set a professional record of delivering projects for participants aged between 2 months and 100 years old within one year.
For a list of some of the organisations Rosemary has worked with, please see below.
2022-23 SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST
Writer and workshop facilitator for Early Years development, Bookbugs programme
2020-21 NARRATIVES OF EMPATHY AND RESILIENCE
Project Dramaturge (Spoken Word) and Dramaturgical Trainer with Half Moon Theatre
2019 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE, LITERATURE MATTERS AWARD
Facilitator for Word Bridges creative writing workshops with English PEN
2018 BBC PROMS Ten Pieces Prom
Director/writer/workshop leader for Home, performance at Royal Albert Hall with Brave New Voices
2017-19 ENGLISH PEN Brave New Voices (young refugees/asylum seekers)
Co-ordinator, facilitator, and editor for two anthologies
2014-21 HALF MOON THEATRE
Facilitator CPD workshops creative writing and drama
2000-19 APPLES & SNAKES
Writing and performance workshop facilitator, educational, professional and community settings
2012-17 JERWOOD GALLERY, Hastings
Community education artist, schools workshops
2016 V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD Conference
Britain’s Child Migrants: interpreting the past and remembering today
Visiting speaker on the development and writing of One Way Ticket
2016 QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON GradFest
Visiting speaker, Creative Ways of Sharing Oral History Testimonies seminar
2013-16 DISCOVER CHILDREN’S STORY CENTRE, Catching Words project
Schools workshop facilitator and storybook writer
2012-15 NEW WRITING SOUTH
Creative Learning Team, writing workshops
2011 OFFICE OF THE CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER, Do More Than Listen
Facilitator for workshops/ film commission on children’s experiences of the Family Justice Systém
2010-16 THE POETRY SOCIETY
Visiting poet for schools workshops and 2013 Slambassadors Junior Slam
2008-16 CREATE (ARTS) LTD
Drama and writing workshop facilitator
Offenders, young carers, vulnerable women’s and elders‘ groups
2008-15 DE LA WARR PAVILION, Bexhill on Sea
Schools workshops and facilitation team
2008-13 HASTINGS MUSEUM
Creative writing workshop leader
School workshops and interactive family activities
2007 TATE BRITAIN, Verbaleyes
Workshop leader for schools’ project, including performance & exhibition
TATE BRITAIN with MENTAL FIGHT CLUB
Creative writing workshop leader
2006-10 CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS, London and Hastings
Drama and writing workshop delivery in primary and secondary schools
2001-2016 IMAGE IN ACTION, specialist drama-based SRE delivery
Project worker/workshop facilitator, SEN settings
1998-2001 ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DRAMA (RSAMD), Glasgow
Acting tutor, Postgraduate Opera Studies
1997-98 SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE, Glasgow
Tutor, weekly workshops
1995-2001 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRAMATIC ART (NIDA), Sydney
Tutor, Open Programme
1996-97 SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY
Tutor, Schools’ Outreach Programme
1990-97 AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (ATYP), Sydney
Tutor, weekly workshops