About me
I bring adults and young people together to create transformative plays, projects and other work.
My work is driven by my interest in happiness, human connection and collaboration. I use my artistic practice in everything I do - whether that is making ground-breaking plays with young people, sharing practice or supporting other artists and organisations.
I developed my practice as the Artistic Director of Company Three, one of the UK’s leading theatre companies for young people, which I founded in 2008. I now work as a freelance director, writer, trainer and consultant. Current artistic projects includes In Isolation, a design response to school isolation booths, and The Butterfly Tap, a play and blueprint about teenage happiness.
I am leading the creation of a new national development organisation for more than 500 youth theatres across England, and the learning programme for Esmée Fairbairn’s Youth-Led Creativity Programme. I work as a consultant for organisations across the UK and beyond.
How I work
I have spent twenty years developing my practice as a co-creation specialist - an artist who brings people from different perspectives and backgrounds together to create change.
At the heart of this work is my commitment to equity, kindness and transparency. I build relationships, trust and care. I listen, I challenge, and I lead with generosity and joy.
I use a rigorous, accessible process called Source to Performance to structure and inform every piece of creative collaboration that I lead, whether I’m making a show with fifteen teenagers or supporting an chief executive to develop a five-year strategy. I bring tools and techniques developed over hundreds of projects with artists, teachers, young people and community members.
I openly share my practice through training courses, writing, social media and public speaking.
Bios
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Ned Glasier is a theatre-maker and co-creation specialist who brings adults and young people together to create change. He was the founding Artistic Director of the multi-award-winning Company Three from 2008-24 where his work included Brainstorm (National Theatre/BBC) and more than 50 other plays and projects with young people.
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Ned Glasier is a theatre-maker and co-creation specialist who brings adults and young people together to create change. He was the founding Artistic Director of the multi-award-winning Company Three from 2008-24 where his work included Brainstorm (National Theatre/BBC), When This Is Over (Yard Theatre), The Coronavirus Time Capsule (digital) and more than 50 other plays and projects with young people.
Ned is currently developing projects around teenage happiness, including with the Young Vic Theatre and Wonder Fools. He is leading the creation of a national development agency for youth theatres in England and the learning programme for Esmée Fairbairn’s Youth-Led Creativity Fund.
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Ned Glasier is a theatre-maker and co-creation specialist who brings adults and young people together to create change. He was the founding Artistic Director of Company Three from 2008-24, where his work included Brainstorm (National Theatre/BBC), When This Is Over (Yard Theatre) and The Coronavirus Time Capsule, a video record of the pandemic involving more than 3,000 young people in 17 different countries.
During his time at Company Three, Ned’s work was recognised by the Peter Brooke Awards, The Stage Awards and the Spirit of London Awards. He developed an extensive exchange programme, supporting hundreds of youth arts groups in more than thirty countries around the world.
Ned has trained thousands of artists in co-creation through specialist courses as well as at Goldsmiths, University of London, East 15, Westminster University, Drama Centre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He was the ArtWorks Fellow at the Barbican Centre from 2013-15 and a Civic Futures Fellow from 2019-20.
Ned is currently developing projects around teenage happiness, including with the Young Vic Theatre and Wonder Fools. He is leading the creation of a national development agency for youth theatres in England and the learning programme for Esmée Fairbairn’s Youth-Led Creativity Fund.