Shilpa picks up the inaugural award
Shipla T-Hyland Perth Theatre has named Shilpa T-Hyland as the first recipient of its Cross Trust Young Director Award.
The Cross Trust Young Director Award has been created to give an emerging Scotland-based director the opportunity to stage a fully supported show at PerthTheatre.
Funded by the charitable body which gives grants to charitable organisations and young Scots, awards are decided by a panel of Scottish theatre sector professionals.
Shilpa has chosen to direct Zinnie Harris’s adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie in Perth Theatre’s Joan Knight Studio in Spring 2019.
A recent graduate with an MA in classical and contemporary text at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, Shilpa is a pioneer board member for Stellar Quines, and is co-founder of the company Modest Predicament.
She has previously worked as a trainee director for the National Theatre of Scotland on 306: Day and NTS/The TEAM at Edinburgh International Festival on Anything that Gives off Light.
Shilpa said:“I am delighted to be receiving The Cross Trust Young Director Award to direct Zinnie Harris’Miss Julie at Perth Theatre, a fantastic adaptation which really resonates for me with contemporary issues of intersectional conversation and the moments where we fail to reach each other.
“The award will allow me to expand my directing practise in a supported and challenging environment which I have no doubt will form an indispensable part of my learning as a director. I couldn’t be more thrilled!”
Lu Kemp, artistic director of Perth Theatre and a member of the selection panel said:“Shilpa gave a first-class interview about her ideas on directing and her love for the text and how she intends to bring it to life. She spoke beautifully for and about her generation, and I think she will prove to be an exciting voice in Scottish theatre.”