Trainspotting Live
Brass Jar Productions, Off-Broadway
New York Premiere, 2018
directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher
Resident Director: Blayze Teicher
Choose life. Trainspotting is the story of Mark Renton and his friends, navigating the Edinburgh heroin scene of the 1980s. This punchy, 80-minute production recaptures the passion and controversy of the beloved novel and globally successful film - repackaging it into a visceral, immersive experience.
Press
The New York Times | Time Out | The Wrap
“Harry Gibson’s adaptation makes for extraordinary immersive theater.” -The Wrap
The Challenge
Lead transition of new cast members and maintain the creative direction set by Olivier Award-winner Adam Spreadbury-Maher. Integrate new performers while consolidating seven acting tracks into five - solving complex staging, traffic flow, and continuity challenges.
The Insight
Cult classics come with cult expectations.
Creative Leadership & Impact
As Resident Director, I preserved the production’s creative integrity while adapting to evolving casts, venues, and specific needs involved in experiential storytelling. I collaborated with our New York and London-based producers and marketing teams to drive press outreach - resulting in a New York Times feature on immersive theater in New York City.
based on the novel by: Irvine Welsh
adapted by: Harry Gibson
directed by: Adam Spreadbury-Maher
co-directed by: Greg Esplin
resident director: Blayze Teicher
original producer: In Your Face Theatre
off-Broadway producer: Brass Jar Productions
lighting design: Clancy Flynn
sound design: Tom Lishman
production stage managers: Christina Woolard,
Becky Abramowitz
starring: Andrew Barrett, Lauren Downie, Josh Goulding, Tariq Malik, Olivier Sublet