CAMDEN BARRETT


I am an interdisciplinary theatre and performance practitioner currently based in London, UK.  

CLOWN person - - - - - - - - .

studying on the MFA Advanced Theatre Practice course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  



(photo by justin hackworth)
currently

ONLY EXIT at voidspace live

Saturday, June 7th
2:00-4:00 PM

‘ONLY EXIT is existing as a performance practice / installation which troubles the rules of wayfinding. The project is a continuation of Camden and Angela [Rauf’s] spatial practice and research on [EXIT] signage, the collision of found space and public space in performance, and the utilization of wearable apparatus in performance. Positioning themes of performing anarchy, anarchitecture, and pleasure in transgressive protest, ONLY EXIT aims to invite audience / group / public to participate in the unmaking of the binary of direction and misdirection; to observe and make mischief happen; to work with and not for wayfinding directives. ONLY EXIT is a practice in the making of public space perhaps prompted by a performer / individual / clown / apparatus. The installation involves signage available in the found space, as well as visual and audio ephemera / apparitions for voidspace audiences to interact with and through to challenge learned spatial behavior. The challenge rests in facilitation and invitation. How can we invite an audience to perform with the performer in the making of public space? How do we listen to / enlist instructions, directions, to open opportunities to commune and collaborate with each other and the space?‘

selected work


ONLY EXIT
King Lear
Radiant Vermin
Because We Can’t Sew




featuring - Angela Rauf, Sophie White, Mack Barr, Aly Carter, Tyler Kline, Kirsten Henriquez, Griz Siebeneck, Luke Morton, and Cade Freiermuth
King Lear, 2024
King Lear, 2024
King Lear, 2024
camden (L) and angela (R) in ONLY EXIT, 2025
King Lear, 2024
Because We Can’t Sew, 2023
Because We Can’t Sew, 2023
Radiant Vermin, 2024 (photograph by Stephanie Dunn
Radiant Vermin, 2024 (photograph by Stephanie Dunn)
camden (L) and angela (R) in ONLY EXIT, 2025
ONLY EXIT, 2025
King Lear, 2024
King Lear, 2024
ONLY EXIT, 2025
Because We Can’t Sew, 2024
Radiant Vermin, 2024 (photograph by Stephanie Dunn)
Radiant Vermin, 2024 (photograph by Stephanie Dunn)
King Lear, 2024
ONLY EXIT, 2025
ONLY EXIT, 2025

cv


directing

King Lear, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, senior capstone project in collaboration with Angela Rauf, 2024
Radiant Vermin, by Phillip Ridley, Salt Lake Acting Company, co-production with SLAC and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, 2024
Because We Can’t Sew, adapted from The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel, Architecture Building, University of Utah, in collaboration with Angela Rauf, 2023

Radiant Vermin, by Phillip Ridley, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, student project, 2023
Mary’s Monster, by Maggie Lou Rader, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, student project, 2023


collaborations

ONLY EXIT, Side/Step Festival and Voidspace Festival, London, in collaboration with Angela Rauf, 2025 (ongoing)
I Feel Like Something Terrible Is Going To Happen, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, in collaboration with auntie circus, 2025 (ongoing)
What Blew In From The Rodeo, Salt Lake City, a touring collaboration with Emily Nash and company, 2024
Kite Flyer, Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, KID SISTER Theatre Collaborative, 2023
Everything is About Something, Salt Lake City, KID SISTER Theatre Collaborative, 2022


performance

Everybody, by Brandon Jacob-Jenkins, USHER / GOD / UNDERSTANDING, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, dir. Robert Scott Smith, 2024
Queer The Stage, PERFORMER, Good Company Theatre, dir. Alicia Washington, 2023
As You Like It, ROSALIND, Studio 115, University of Utah, dir. Robert Scott Smith, 2023
You On The Moors Now, by Jaclyn Backhaus, CATHY, Studio 115, University of Utah, dir. Sarah Shippobotham, 2022


assistant directing

The Tempest, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, dir. Melinda Pfundstein, 2023
Can I Say Yes to That Dress?, by Sarah Shippobotham, Salt Lake Acting Company, dir. Jamie Rocha Allan, 2023
The 39 Steps, The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City, dir. Jamie Rocha Allan, 2023
A Year With Frog and Toad, Salt Lake Acting Company, dir. Penelope Caywood, 2022
The Old Man and The Old Moon, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, dir. Jamie Rocha Allan, 2022
Matilda, Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah, dir. Alicia Washington, 2022
Storm Still, by Gab Reisman, Babcock Theatre, University of Utah, dir. Alexandra Harbold, 2021


teaching 

Faculty, Youth Theatre at the U, University of Utah, 2021-2024


education

MFA Advanced Theatre Practice, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2024-current).
BFA Actor Training Program, cum laude, University of Utah (2020-2024).


additional training

Salt Lake Acting Company, Professional Training Program, 2022-2023.
Theatrical Intimacy Education Workshop, Best Practices, November 2023.


[honors]

College of Fine Arts Outstanding Senior, Department of Theatre, University of Utah, 2024.
“Outstanding Ensemble” at Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, 2023.
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant $1,200 for Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, 2023.
College of Fine Arts Advisory Board Scholarship, 2023-2024.
Victor Jory Scholarship, 2022-2023.
Marian D. Harrison Scholarship, 2021-2022.
Utah Academic Scholarship, 2020-2024.
pdf copy of cv is availabe upon request, please contact

KID SISTER THEATRE COLLABORATIVE

...is a Salt Lake City based, non-profit theatre project that I co-founded with Niko Krieger (@okayniko) - KID SISTER works with playground antics of improvisation and abstraction to wrestle with the notion of ‘growing up’...
contact

barrettcamden@gmail.com
instagram @camdenbtt