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Sohail Khan - Freelance theatre arts worker, artist, performer & musician

Date of birth: 7th March 1966
Gender: Male
Cultural background: UK Citizen, of Asian and European parentage
Email: info@sohailkhan.co.uk

Member Of Equity Actors/Directors Union
In possession of recent CRB certificate (August 2005)
Creative Artist inducted for Creative Partnerships Bradford

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION
BA Theatre (HONS.2/1) - Dartington College of the Arts 1989-93

High School of the Arts Utrecht, Holland - International Class 1991-92
(Average Modular Grading 2/1)

Advanced Actors Course - Institute of Cinematography, Moscow (VGIK) 1993-94

RECENT THEATRE ARTS RELATED WORK
The details below relate to experience and posts held during the past few years. Please contact the artist for more detailed information if this is required.

Asian Theatre School :: July 2006
Developing participatory theatre workshops with performance outcomes with partnership organisations for young people in Bradford.
Role: Theatre Arts Practitioner / Filmmaker

Just Addictive Music :: May 2006 - Ongoing
Range of projects working with issues around diversity with young people in schools, colleges and youth justice settings in the North of England. Currently developing a participatory theatre play and workshop, entitled 'Al the Alien', which premiered at Barnsley Town Hall in August 2006. Developed for the South Yorkshire Racial Harassment Forum's 2nd Annual Conference.
Role: Performer / Co-devisor

Al The Alien - Participatory Theatre Show
South Yorkshire Racial Harrassment Forum - Barnsely Town hall August 2006
Devisors and Performers: D Hafiz and Sohail Khan - Photo: John Bell

Creative Partnerships :: November 2005 - Ongoing
Creative Artist for Creative Partnerships Bradford. Devising and delivering programs of theatre based workshops in schools to develop the creative potential of their pupils. Looking at ways to make creative thinking a part of pupils cultural and economic life. Developing ongoing and in depth projects around these themes that tie in with the nationwide Creative Partnerships initiative.
Role: Creative Artist

Youth Attendance Centre :: Home Office :: September 2005 - Ongoing
Developing theatre related workshops to assist with learning outputs for young people who have been referred to the Centre by the courts or through Youth Offending Teams.
Roles: Workshop Leader

Mind the Gap Theatre :: November 1999-Ongoing
Currently working as part of the Outreach Team developing projects in house and school tours as part of the remit to bring theatre into schools not only as an arts form but as a tool to explore issues concerning young people with learning disabilities.
Roles: Arts Facilitation, Workshop Leader, Devising, Dramaturgical, Storyline Development, Artistic Direction

Kala Sangam :: March 2005 - Ongoing
As well as workshop delivery in schools I work with a group of young people with Aspergers syndrome using theatre techniques to explore issues and developed a show in collaboration with them over a period of months.
Roles: Arts Facilitator, Artistic Direction

1 in 4 Theatre :: January - June 2005
These workshops were based on technical actors training and ways of using theatre techniques to create and devise methods of ensemble work for this theatre Company for people who have or have had experienced mental health issues.
Roles: Theatre Arts Facilitation, Workshop Leader

CHOL Theatre :: February-July 2004
Projects in Schools, Community centres and theatres working with children from mixed ethnic background to develop stories and presentation skills for shows presented to theatre, public and community audiences.
Roles: Writing, Devising, Dramaturgical, Directorial

The KArM Project :: February 2002/April 2004
The KArM project is an arts project for people with mental health issues. Jointly run by Easthorpe Visual Arts and Cloverleaf Advocacy. I was Lead Theatre Artist for the project.
Roles : Lead Artist, Workshop Devisor, Facilitation Script Devising, Film Making, Film Workshops

Full Body and the Voice :: April 2002/April 2003
Full body and the Voice is a Huddersfield based theatre company of adults with learning disabilities who create professional theatre productions and offer training and workshops in the performing arts I worked on a in house training project with them for a year. I also spent seven weeks working with the company as Assistant Artistic Director on their show 'Hard Shoes'.
Roles : Arts Facilitator, Direction, Storyline Development

Drama Not Crisis Project :: Priestley Arts Centre Bradford :: February 2002/ December 2002
A Project based at the Priestley Arts Centre in Bradford. Working with ethnically mixed groups of year 8 students from Carlton Bolling College. Bradford. It was also the projects aim to use theatre as a tool for team building and make a theatre show based around their experiences and aspirations. My role as Artistic Director was to devise and deliver the workshops and final productions.

WRITING
'Pitch the Lie' (1999) - Commission by Paines Plough, premiere at West Yorkshire playhouse and toured nationally.

'Tell me Something you would Like' (2002) - Theatre in the Mill, Bradford.

'The boy who invented air' (2003) - West Yorkshire Playhouse.

EDUCATION PROJECTS
Paper delivered on: 'Creativity, Racism and Mental Health' and Seminar workshops. Racism and Mental Health Day at a maximum security special hospital - March 2005

Tutor and Site Specific Performance Project - Bretton Hall College - working with 1st year Degree Performance Students, April - May 2005

CURRENT & ONGOING PROJECTS
2004 - Ongoing: The Fear of the Other - a project whose performance development and research phase was funded by Arts Council Yorkshire. To allow me as an artist to reengage with elements of artistic practice that had become neglected due to my work as an arts freelancer. As well as creating new processes of work and four products relating to this research a performance showcase and installation was presented to an audience in June 2005. www.thefearoftheother.co.uk

2005 - Ongoing: Project Leader/Co-Devisor/Co-Artistic Director on a multimedia performance piece for artists in mind based upon the life and artistic work of a service user and their transformation to artist - 'Reflections of the Child Who Grew Up'.

OTHER (Voluntary)
2003 - 2005: Chair and Voluntary Project Leader - (AIM) Artists in Mind A project based Charity that works with mental health service users as Artists developing their work and creating a space for the dissemination of creativity as a medium for healing into wider society.

November 2005: Regional Arts Council England - Member of Arts Council Yorkshire. Regional member appointed by the National Council. The Role of a regional member is as a non executive to agree the regional strategy and priorities as apart of the Arts Councils national framework. To reflect and comment on recent projects and reports in a advisory capacity to officers and executive of Arts Council Yorkshire. As well as to act as a advocate for the Arts and the role of the Artist in the region.
www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/council.php?rid=9

October 2005: Steering Committee Member of New Work Yorkshire - An association developing showcasing and promoting the creation of New Work within the region.
http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/userinfo.php?uid=1201

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
I have worked in the field of Theatre as a Freelance since 1994. Since then I have been involved with many companies working on many differing projects with a large range of clients. Those listed above are projects that I have worked on for the past few years and this reflects my current level of practice. All of these workshops or programmes have involved some kind of theatre or performance element.

My wider professional experience includes: Artistic Direction and Assistant Direction. Lead (and following Artist) in cross arts projects. Project management. Live and Performance Arts. Street theatre, Actors trainer, Actor, Puppeteer, Voice Over Artist. Songwriter, Scriptwriter. Devisor/Dramaturge. Singer - and pantomime horse (rear-end).

As a freelance facilitator I have experience working with most types of client group and collaborations as well as for a diverse range of organisations. My rates are freelance so I am responsible for my own Tax and National Insurance. The range of my fee falls within the relevant bands set by the Arts Council, which you can access on the Arts Council England website. There is, however a sliding scale depending on the length and the type of the project and who the project is with and for.

I am, and have recently been involved in, projects that have been funded by the Learning Initiative Fund, The Learning and Skills Council and the Neighbourhood Support Fund. I have been trained and participated within the evaluation of these works as well as the assessment and documentation of the projects so I am familiar to the set up and delivery of outcomes for these bodies.

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You can contact Sohail Khan via email at info@sohailkhan.co.uk or use the online contact form on the website.

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