Neil Bettles
Award Nominations
2022 - WhatsOnStage Award for Best Sound Design for Blood Harmony at the Traverse Theatre
2020 - Off West End IDEA Award and Finalist for Best Sound for Petrichor
2019 - Off West End Award nomination for Best Director for The Unreturning
As Artistic Director of ThickSkin Neil has directed work that has toured the UK and to New York and Brazil. Winning numerous awards at the Edinburgh Fringe including a Fringe First for How Not To Drown in 2019. As an experienced workshop leader and teacher he has led workshops and masterclasses all over the world in devising and physical theatre.
Neil is Associate Movement Director on the multi-award winning Harry Potter And The Cursed Child working on the shows in London, New York, Melbourne, San Fransisco and Hamburg.
“Bedknobs and Broomsticks - UK Tour
Visually, Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a delight from start to finish. Neil Bettles’ flowing choreography complements the taut direction of Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison. The magic – including Eglantyne’s first foray into broomstick flying and the flying beadstead – is, well, magical, supporting the story well.”
“How Not to Drown - Edinburgh Fringe
Urgent, fast-paced, seemingly never pausing for breath, How Not to Drown is a real-life boy’s own adventure, an appeal for compassion towards refugees, and an interrogation of nationality and identity...
But this bold, confident work, directed with somewhat breathless energy by Neil Bettles for theatre company ThickSkin, pulls it off brilliantly...It’s a touchingly bittersweet, thought-provoking close to a ripping yarn very much for our times.”
Gallery
2024
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Make Good: The Post Office Scandal | Omnibus Theatre, UK Tour, Dir. Elle While, Movement Dir. Neil Bettles |
2023
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| How Not To Drown | UK Tour, Dir. & Chor. Neil Bettles |
| Assassins | Chichester Festival Theatre, Dir. Polly Findlay, Chor. Neil Bettles |
| Great Expectations | The Royal Exchange, Dir. Pooja Ghai, Movement Dir. Neil Bettles |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Private Peaceful | Nottingham Playhouse & UK Tour, Dir. Elle While, Movement Dir. Neil Bettles |
| James IV: Queen of the Fight | Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Dir. Laurie Sansom, Movement Dir. Neil Bettles |
2021
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Bedknobs and Broomsticks | UK Tour, Dir. Candice Edmunds, Choreographer & Movement Dir. Neil Bettles |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Petrichor | ThickSkin, Dirs & Chors. Jonnie Riordan & Jess Williams, Music & Sound Des. Neil Bettles |
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| How Not to Drown | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Dir & Co-Chor. Neil Bettles, Co-Chor. Jonnie Riordan |
| The Unreturning | UK Tour & Theatre Royal Stratford East, Dir. Neil Bettles |
2018
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| We Are Here | La Mama, New York, Dir. Steven Hoggett, Associate Dir. Neil Bettles |
| Carmen | Opera Wuppertal, Germany, Chor. Neil Bettles |