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Tamzin Townsend
Over the last 28 years Tamzin has directed over 45 shows in Spain and Latin America. Many have had such critical acclaim and commercial success and that she has been named The Midas Queen of The Spanish Stage by the newspaper El Pais. El Método Grönholm by Jordi Galceran was one of the most popular plays of the last decade and ran for years at the Marquina Theatre in Madrid. Many of her shows have premiered at International theatre festivals such as the Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, and Merida’s Greek-Roman Theatre Festival. At the moment she has two shows on in central Madrid, El Método Grönholm and Laponia which are both box office hits and 2 more shows are expected to be opening in 2023.
She also brings her skills as a Director and Theatre Practitioner to her Coaching work delivering communication training to the corporate world in English, Spanish and Catalan enhancing engagement and confidence when delivering key messages in public. She has worked with the British Training company Dramatic Resources for many years, using her passion to empower women through their Women’s Leadership programmes and on other programmes.
In 2021 she wrote and directed a Master Show for Beliquid which is an experiencial theatre show for corporate training thereby combining her two passions: Theatre and Coaching.
She has a passion for Education and she was the Director of the Theatre Arts degree course at the European University in Madrid for 11 years. She is an adjunct professor at the IE Madrid and lecturer at the Universidad de la Rioja, Bilbao and UNIR.
In her spare time she iscompleting a PHD in theatrical translation.
CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
• Trainer for Dramatic Resources Top Team, 2012 – Present
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
• Director of Theatre Arts degree course at the European University Madrid, 2011 – 2019
• Associate Profesor UNIR, 2019 – Present
• Lecturer Universidad de la Rioja, 2019 – Present
• Adjunct Professor IE, 2017 – Present
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• BA Theatre Studies . University of Kent at Canterbury. 1989
• MA Theatre Arts. UCM, 2015
• Currently working on PhD. Theatrical TranslaNon. UCM