Teatro Vivo is run by Joint Artistic Directors Mark Stevenson and Kas Darley, who have been with the organisation since it’s conception in 2004:
Kas Darley
Kas trained as an actor at LAMDA, and her performing credits include Old Times (Pinter theatre), Women of the World (National Theatre) Blue (Soho Theatre) and The Dacha with Tim Supple at Dash Arts
For Teatro Vivo Kas performed in many of our shows prior to taking over the Artistic Directorship with Mark in 2019. Since then she has co-directed Common, Lewisham Speaks and Dangerous Games – and created the company’s first show (Ondine) to be made specifically for her home county of Dorset
Mark Stevenson
Mark trained as an actor and director at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and VGIK in Moscow.
He has performed as an actor for the last 30 years for numerous companies, and his directing includes work for Ampersand, Theatre Babel, GLYPT, and PSC, as well as creating shows with young people for The National Theatre, Old Vic, Young Vic, Stratford East and others.
For Teatro Vivo, Mark has performed in most of our productions, as well as directing Supermarket Shakespeare, Ondine, The House That Slipped, Tales from The Common, Great British Wedding, our audio version of Evelyn’s Roots and online version of Grimm’s Collecting Agency. As Joint Director with Kas he has directed: Common, The Mystery of The Missing Market, Dangerous Games, Orpheus and the Underworld and The Myths of the Marshes.