With a background of experience at the BBC and Channel 4, Derekk is a passionate and inventive theatre director of more than forty stage productions, including classical and contemporary plays and musicals. Derekk also runs acting workshops, and produces translations and adaptations for plays and musical theatre. Derekk is based in Cornwall, South West England, and directs both in the UK and internationally.

Equally at home with the 'large canvas' of the open-air arena stage and smaller intimate spaces, Derekk loves working in a very pared-down way. The 'empty space' of the rehearsal room and the simplicity of the nearly-bare stage perfection of in-the-round performance where the actor is everything and the spectator's close proximity to the action delivers the uniquely connected experience; this is what Derekk believes to be the quintessence of live drama.

THEATRE DIRECTING WORK

Educated and trained at Middlesex University and at Bretton Hall, Derekk first gained production experience in stage management and as an assistant director, followed by experience at BBC Television Centre London in Plays Department, and at Channel Four's Brookside. He has gone on to direct many of Shakespeare's plays, along with contemporary works and musicals, often touring both in the UK and abroad. For a list of theatrical works that Derekk has directed and information about current and future live theatre projects, please click below.