Bethany West

Guest Artist

Bethany is a theatre maker based in Margate, who trained on the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck College.

Together with Barney McElholm, Bethany is developing Becoming, a show about adolescent development and moments of transition, for their company EMERGE(ncy) PARTY.

As Assistant Director, Bethany has worked with Sean Holmes and Zoe Svendsen (Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Globe), Sean Holmes and Ilinca Radulian (Henry VI and Richard III, Shakespeare’s Globe), Orla O’Loughlin, Told by an Idiot and Emma Callandar.

As Producer and Assistant Producer, Bethany has worked with the Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, MAYK, Mayfest and In Between Time Festival.

Bethany has an agony aunt radio show with Jude Shapiro on Margate Radio @Woe_800