Robert Rae is a theatre and film director and writer. He chooses to develop work through socially engaged practice that aligns with his own political and activist commitments. His expertise has taken him all over the world sharing and developing his methodology. His career spans over 30 years, beginning as Producer for 7:84 England and then as Artistic Director/CEO of Theatre Workshop for 18 years, changing the landscape in Scotland for professional disabled actors. Currently co-Director and embedded artist with ART27 Scotland, an arts and human right organisation committed to making cultural rights real. As International Artist in Residence for The Playhouse, Derry he co-created Blood Red Lines with eleven victims and survivors of the Conflict in the border towns of Ireland. Having toured successfully for four years, Robert is now scripting a documentary about the project and the participants long struggle for truth and justice.

‘Commissioned by the Reconciliation Fund, I will be developing a first draft shooting script for a documentary of Blood Red Lines. Eleven people’s loved ones were murdered by a “gang” controlled by British Military Intelligence – the documentary will combine footage from the play with location based testimony to tell their story of an extraordinary struggle for the truth.’

Blood Red Lines (photography, Columba O’Hare)