Selected Professional Practice & Industry Work
As an actor, Georgina’s work includes: National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, National Theatre of Scotland, BBC and Carnival Films, amongst others.
Directing work includes:
- Co-Director / Adapter: The Hearing Trumpet (World Premiere – The Old Library, Theatre Deli /Dirty Market)
- Co-director / Performer: Oxbow Lakes (The Old Printworks, CPT / Dirty Market )
- Co-Director / Co-Writer: Be Good Revolutionaries (Ovalhouse / Dirty Market)
- Co-Director / Producer: Bacchaefull (The Old Abattoir / Dirty Market)
Awards, Recognition & Media Profile
To read reviews of Georgina’s work with her company, please visit www.dirtymarket.co.uk
Industry Collaborations & Partnerships
As part of a Wellcome-funded collaboration with Edinburgh University, Georgina and her company, led on the the public engagement aspect of a large-scale research project into the effects of corticosteroids on pre-term birth. Together they created The Omagemi Project : a parent and health worker advocacy and dialogue project.
For her company Dirty Market, she was co-lead on The Hearing Trumpet, a world-premier, immersive, theatrical adaptation of Leonora Carrington’s surrealist classic novel of the same name, in collaboration with Theatre Deli.
Other collaborations include CPT and Ovalhouse, creating site-responsive theatrical experiences – Oxbow Lakes and Something About You (Makes Me Want to Hurt You).
For Moving Arts, Georgina collaborated with artist Hente Sodderland and Tate Modern, to create interactive ‘art stories’ for children and their families in Peckham Square.
Teaching & Mentorship
Georgina is Programme Director for BA Acting for Screen and Devised performance. She also teaches and directs on BA Acting and Actor Musicianship.
Her specialisms lie in :
- Stanislavsky Technique and Method Acting (Hagen / Strasburg)
Georgina’s professional practice has allowed her to reconsider and reframe the traditional canon. With her company, she developed the Rough Classics series, using their inventive Bricolage approach – this has influenced current interventions into classic texts with students.
Her professional acting experience means she prioritises a mix of craft and creativity, thus allowing each student-actor more autonomy, depth and the discovery of their unique creative voice.
Georgina has directed over 30 student productions.
Research & Knowledge Exchange
Georgina’s research interests include the effects of contemporary surveillance culture on the actor’s sense of self.
Her practice as research involves the development of ‘Chora’: a new rehearsal process, incorporating imagination and the poetic, restoring the capacity to embrace challenging ‘shadow’ material.
Her development of Bricolage as a technique, shifting from visual arts practice into performance, has had both academic and industry impact. And her innovative work with her company Dirty Market has brought unusual, immersive experiences to communities where theatre doesn’t normally happen.
Georgina is part of the ECRN.
Publications & Research Outputs (selected)
- Sowerby, G. Chapter: ‘Cringe to Chora: reflections on the actor’s way back to inner aliveness.’, Stanislavsky and Psychology, edited by Vladimir Mirodan and Benjamin Askew. Routledge, 2026.* (publication date tbc)
- Sowerby, G. Chapter: “Communion, Mindfulness and the Imaginative Actor.” Stanislavsky and Mindfulness, edited by Dawn Ingleson. Routledge, 2025.
- Sowerby, G. and Lee, J. Chapter: ‘Alchemical Adaptations.’ Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies, edited by Alisa Cox et al. Vernon Press, 2020.
- Practice as Research outputs include: Hearing Trumpet (Unplugged) for a mixed audience of elders with dementia and young children, Mrs Horton’s Finger at BOLD Festival, Darling Daddy at Synergy.
Practical Presentations & Papers
- OMAGEMI Performance Game: holding difficult dialogues in Medication and Pregnancy (Wellcome-funded), Storytelling and Wellbeing Conference, 2024 (Cardiff University), GLOW (Global Health of Women and Newborns) Conference, 2024 (Edinburgh University)- STOPPIT-3 Conference 2022 (Portland Square), Outhouse exhibition (2025)
- IPPT (International Platform for Performer Training) 2024, Tampere University (Finland) – Challenging Utopias in Performer Training
- Leonora Carrington : Living Legacies Conference 2017, Edgehill University (UK) – Alchemical Adaptations (Staging The Hearing Trumpet)