Tracy Collier, Head of Movement
Tracy Collier is from the UK.
Tracy Collier began her acting career in 1979 when she toured Italy with various musicals, plays and television. On returning to the UK, she appeared in repertory theatres around the country and at Drury Lane in
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Repertory shows included Oklahoma,
Hiawatha, One for the Road, The Birdwatcher, No, No, Nanette,
Bless the Bride, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (British premiere),
Perchance to Dream, The Dancing Years, Alice in Wonderland, various pantomimes and many others. She followed this with a two and a half year run as Lady Jaqueline Carston in
Me and My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre and a one and half year stay at the Royal National Theatre as part of both the Olivier and the Littleton companies. She has also been a director and choreographer alongside her acting career and completed an MA at the Laban Centre in European Dance Theatre Practice.
She is now Artistic Director of her own company Time4Change Theatre, www.time4changetheatre.co.uk. Her directing includes Merrily We Roll Along, Lucky Stiff, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Jack the Ripper, Happy as a Sandbag, The King and I, Enchanted, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man. She has also written the book for three short musicals, Hart to Hart, The Other Side of the Rainbow and The Mitfords. As movement director she has worked on shows including The Orestia, Blood Wedding, Adam Bede, Threepenny Opera and her own work. Silence a Language for Time4Change was performed in 2007 at the Electric Theatre, Guildford. Before coming to East 15, she was Senior Tutor in Musical Theatre, Dance and Movement at GSA, a position she held for ten years.
E-mail: tcollier@essex.ac.uk
