Contact

sachaplaige@gmail.com

Half-French half-Russian, Sacha is a performer, movement director and theatre-maker. She trained at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq School in Paris and is a founding member of award-winning Clout Theatre Company. Prior to that she graduated  from the 4 year acting course at the University of Cinematography in Moscow and was an ice-dancer for 10  years. 

She holds an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and divides her time teaching, movement directing and creating work with her theatre company. She is passionate about creating emotional connections, working with the intangible and making the invisible  visible. 

Teaching 

She is an Associate Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Arts on the BA in Contemporary Theatre where she teaches Ensemble training, Devising and leads the Acting Lab on certain units. She has taught at LAMDA, The Rose Bruford Foundation course in Brighton, EAST15, ALRA, Northampton University and Physical Acting at Emil Dale Academy. Most recently, she started  teaching acting students at the New Moscow School of Cinema online.  

Movement Direction 

Credits include: Twelfth Night , National Youth Theatre, Arminio, Royal Opera House, La Bohème, Nevill Holt Opera, Europeana, Royal Shakespeare Company, (Assistant Movement Director and Understudy)  The Skating Rink, Garsington Opera (Assistant Movement Director, Performer, Cover Skater)

Performing and theatre-making: 

- with Clout Theatre: FEAST, Battersea Arts Centre, Summerhall; How A Man Crumbled, UK and International  tour, The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity, Battersea Arts Centre, UK Tour; 

Total Theatre Award Nominee 2012 and 2013 

- selected other work: Lucia Di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House 

 Boris Godunov, Royal Opera House 

 The Kosinski Project, ZOU Theatre.