Sita Calvert-Ennals

Personal statement

Sita Calvert-Ennals is programme leader of MA Performance (Directing) and a Senior lecturer in Directing and Dramaturgy for BA (Hons) Acting. She runs and manages the MA Performance (Directing) programme and teaches across all three years of the BA Acting programme.

Sita has worked as a freelance director for the past 20 years.

She originally trained at LIPA from 2000-2003 and received a First Class honours degree in Performing Arts. In 2008 she completed a director traineeship at Sherman Cymru, supported by Arts Council Wales, and in 2009 was awarded an emerging directorship with National Theatre Wales.

Her work has spanned many different genres including classic texts, childrens’ theatre, spoken word poetry, puppetry and live art but always has truthful storytelling and collaborative dramaturgy at its heart. Her influences range from Tim Crouch to Katie Mitchell with Mike Leigh and Scandinavian crime drama somewhere in the mix.

Sita has worked with organisations including Bath Theatre Royal, Bristol Old Vic, National Theatre Wales, Sherman Cymru, Theatre West, Theatr Iolo, Wattle and Daub, Trestle Theatre Company, Circumstance, The Egg Theatre Bath, Wales Millennium centre and recently the Minack Theatre.

Her recent work includes the critically acclaimed "What Remains of Us" made in association with Bristol Old Vic theatre and "Further than the Furthest Thing" by Zinnie Harris for The Minack Theatre.

Alongside directing, Sita has also worked as a dramaturg on many new plays by emerging and established writers for companies such as Sherman Cymru, Bristol Old Vic, The Tobacco Factory, Theatre West and Dirty Protest.

Sita's research specialisms are theatre, directing/dramaturgy and British New Writing.

Academic qualifications

• BA (Hons) Community Theatre – First Class, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
• SFHEA – Higher Education Academy Fellowship

Professional memberships

• Stage Directors UK

Teaching specialisms

• Dramaturgy
• Acting
• Directing