About Us:
We are passionate about using research to reveal hidden stories to create drama, documentary and interactive media. This approach gives each of Digital Drama’s productions a distinctive voice, reflects the world of our contributors and resonates with the audience.
Digital Drama work with project partners to combine audio, video, AR, VR, design and performance to create interactive events in a variety of locations. We have worked with theatres, museums, universities, schools and community groups and have won awards for our multi-media productions.
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Examples of recent projects:
- Fast by Kate Barton at Park Theatre, London
- 150 Voices: Online exhibition for the British Red Cross
- Mitcham VR Festival
- The National Archives: Various short films
- Positive in Prison: Audio docu-drama
- Deeds Not Words; Endell Street Military Hospital: Immersive drama in Covent Garden
- Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut: Multi-media exhibition at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Noel Coward’s Peace In Our Time: Award winning audio drama
Digital Drama run bespoke training and workshops in the the following areas:
- Audio and video production
- Oral history
- Funding advice and application assistance
- Project management
- Digital badging
Kate Valentine, Director
As a director, I specialise in new writing and multimedia. Starting Digital Drama in 2013 has enabled us to pursue a passion for telling stories on a variety of platforms for an audience who love to be immersed in different worlds. From recording the 8 part audio drama Peace in Our Time in a basement bar in Soho to directing new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I particularly enjoy the co-creative process. I have worked in a variety of theatres from the London Fringe to the Stephen Joseph in Scarborough and the National Theatre. At the BBC, I developed and produced plays for Radio 4 and Radio 3 such as Tiananmen Square, The Bayeux Tapestry and Frederick and Augusta. In 2023 I completed my postgraduate research at the University of York, exploring the use of digital practices in community performance. The creative practice can be viewed and listened to here: innovatingaudio.co.uk
Alison Ramsey, Producer
My background is in documentary making at the BBC and I specialise in making films using archive and interviews which are used in exhibitions and installations for institutions such as the National Archives, the Royal Albert Hall and the Museum of London. My film Deeds not Words: The Suffragette Surgeons of WWI won Best Archive Film Award at the IWM Short Film Festival. I am currently completing a CHASE funded PhD in critical and creative practice into media representations of menopause at the University of Sussex, where my work has achieved an Adam Weiler Doctoral Impact Award for research excellence and the potential to achieve outstanding academic impact. The 40-minute film made as part of my research project, Menopause: The Movie, incorporates oral histories and archive footage.
IWM Short Film Festival 2017:
Best Use of IWM Archive Material for Deeds Not Words
New York Festivals:
Gold Award for Drama – Peace In Our Time
Audio Production Awards:
Best Multi-Media Producer – Kate Valentine
HEAR Now, Audio Fiction and Arts Festival:
Official Selection – Peace in Our Time
UK Radio Drama Festival:
Finalist – Peace in Our Time
Digital Drama works with a variety of partners and has worked with or been commissioned by:
Anstee Bridge, Kingston upon Thames
artsdepot, Barnet
Brent Museum
British Red Cross
Bruce Castle Museum, Haringey
Camden Local Studies and Archive Centre
Canons House & Grounds
Citizens800
Enfield Council
Gunnersbury Museum, Hounslow & Ealing
Historic Royal Palaces
INK Festival
IWM
Kings College, London
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Merton Heritage & Local Studies Centre
Museum of Croydon
Museum of London
The National Archives
Rose Theatre, Kingston
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Opera House
Park Theatre
Speaking Volumes
Surrey Arts
WI Federations
Women’s Library LSE
YMCA
This production company has signed up to the Protecting Actors Fringe Charter, helping to ensure all cast and crew involved operate under safe and fair working conditions.
Protecting Actors : SHIELD:14932
Feedback from our Project Partners
Digital Drama were able to produce and deliver a fantastic heritage training programme within a limited time frame. The programme was clear, accessible and engaging and both Alison and Kate able to build excellent rapport with training attendees. As a result of Digital Drama’s training, participants felt significantly more able to develop and deliver culture and heritage projects. I would happily recommend working with Digital Drama.
MANY, MANY THANKS for doing such a FANTASTIC job on the film – and for being an absolute pleasure to work with. You did an amazing job, much to do with your skills and abilities but also because you built such positive relationships with the families, young people and myself. The whole process was an absolute pleasure!
The exhibition completely transformed the theatre’s circle foyer space, with the cabinets and displays curated in such a way so as to exploit the room’s unusual shape. The audio trail of stories was perfectly complimented by the visual elements of the show. The exhibition succeeded in changing people’s perception of the theatre, and encouraged an entirely different demographic to visit the Rose. The exhibition really helped us in our aim of being a community cultural hub that is open and accessible to all.
Just to say thank you for a most interesting and entertaining workshop on Friday. The resources are brilliant and I am looking forward to using them in school.
Thank you also for your wonderful media work with the students of Hassenbrook Academy. They had a wonderful day, and are super excited to continue to capture all the events going on.