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Dominic Leclerc
As Resident Director at Sheffield Theatres, Dominic worked as Assistant Director on Don Carlos, Ain’t Misbehavin, Blue/Orange, Lear, The Comedy of Errors and as Choreographer/Movement Director on Much Ado About Nothing, The Unthinkable, The Little Fir Tree, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, and The Ugly Duckling.
Other directing/ choreography includes: King John (choreography, RSC), The Cryptogram and Don Juan in Soho (choreography, Donmar Warehouse), Love and Human Remains (directing, Warehouse Theatre), Emmerdale (directing, ITV), Shadowmouth (directing, Sheffield Crucible), The Architecht (directing, Welsh College of Music and Drama), Insomnia, Witness Me, Dystopia (all won National Student Drama Festival Awards), Blue Remembered Hills (Warwick Arts Centre), The Master and Margarita (Edinburgh Fringe), Innocence (BAC), Blue (The Old Vic), Agamemnon (The Point, Southampton), Fledgling (Riverside Studios/UK tour), Protect Me From What I Want (Young Vic), Circelation (Arts Council Project), Almost Blue (Riverside Studios, Associate Director/Choreographer, winner of the Samuel Beckett Award), The Little Mermaid (choreography, Sphinx Theatre), On The Marionette Theatre (choreography, National Theatre).
Assistant Director credits include: A Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith), The Birds, His Dark Materials (NT).
Dominic has won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award, the Channel 4 Regional Theatre Director Scheme, the David Fraser Bursary (ITV), has been shortlisted for the JMK Menzies Kitchin Award and taken part in the National Theatre Director’s programme.
Future TV directing work includes: Holby City, Coronation Street, further episodes of Emmerdale (ITV) and developing a short film called Protect Me From What I Want (Screen Yorkshire).
Future Theatre work includes: Monkey (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Director), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regents Park, Director), Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love (Trafalgar Studios, Director), Falstaff (Scottish Opera, Choreographer).
Dominic has been selected onto the Digital Shorts Scheme by Screen Yorkshire with the project Protect Me From What I Want
Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. Cruising a public toilet, these two worlds collide. Back at Daz' bedsit, Saleem embarks on a dangerous, thrilling sexual adventure.
Both characters’ disparate worlds overlap and collide to tell a tale of loneliness and longing in a city late at night. Flirting with danger, the dialogue erodes to a series of images of tenderness, violence, power and control.
I want a gritty, urban look to the film. Inspired by Nan Goldin's photography, I want the film to have a dangerous, nocturnal edge. I intend to use hand-held camera (for the street and subway scenes) and contrastive tracking shots (bedroom scenes). I intend to use a birds-eye, aerial sequence of shots for the bedroom scenes to explore the spatial relationships between bodies. I want the editing and camera work to be frantic, urgent and violent, as well as lyrical and fluid at other times. The atmosphere must be one of tension and menace, and sexual energy. There is an acceleration of pace to the story, which will be found in the urgent choreography. I want to shoot the erotic, sexual scenes with hand-held camera, and feature lots of CU shots. The composition of images must be contrastive between the violence and tenderness within the story.
The piece is cinematic and visual in that the dialogue erodes to a sequence of bold images of violence and tenderness.