director
La Dame de Monte-Carlo, Francis Poulenc, Royal Opera House, September 2020
Hamlet, Shakespeare, Csokonai National Theatre, Debrecen, August 2020
The Marriage of Kim K, new pop-opera by leo&hyde, UK tour (Lowry, New Diorama, Cast, Enable Us, Theatre By The Lake) November 2019
Dark Horse, new play by Karran Colling, Lights Down Productions, Trafalgar Studios, September 2019
Chick., new play by Elle van Lil, Slackline Productions, Southwark Playhouse, May 2019
Opera Scenes, Royal Academy of Music Vocal Faculty, Rudolf Steiner House, May 2019
Asking For A Raise, new devised play co-directed with Hugo Aguirre, Space Theatre, July 2018
Reboot Shorts, Reboot Company, Bunker Theatre, March 2018
Calenture, new play by Catherine Herman, Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham Fringe, October 2017 and The Arts, Leicester Square, July 2017
Mother's Ruin, new play by Annie Power, Bunker Theatre, September 2017
SE1, new play by Alastair Curtis and Dorcas Ayeni-Stevens, Young Vic Platform, October 2016
Trapped, new play by Jodi Burgess, Cockpit Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival, August 2016
Antigone, Sophocles, Harold Pinter Studio, March 2016
Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare, Harold Pinter Studio, January 2015
assistant director
Cavalli: La Calisto, dir. Mathilde Lopez, Longborough Festival Opera, July 2019
Observer on Bizet: Carmen, dir. Barrie Kosky, Royal Opera House, London, November 2018
Verdi: Don Carlo, dir. Lewis Reynolds, Fulham Opera, London, November 2018
Welsh National Opera Scenes, dir. Emma Jenkins, National Opera Studio, Wales Millenium Centre, May 2018
From Russia With Love (Russian Opera Scenes), dir. Max Hoehn, National Opera Studio, Theatre Royal Glasgow, February 2018
A Curmudgeon's Guide to Christmas Round Robin Letters, dir. Scott Le Crass, Hope Theatre, December 2017
Lorna Doone, dir. Scott Le Crass, Pleasure Dome Theatre Company, Valley of Rocks, August 2017
Lunatic, dir. Whit Hertford, Riot Act, Theatre N16, October 2016
Movement director on Brontë, dir. Simona Hughes, Gatehouse Theatre, July 2016
First Bite, dir. Scott Le Crass, Doughnut Theatre, April 2015
other
Paroles & musique: composer pour la scène residency, Opera Montpellier, November 2020 - May 2021
Opera directing workshop lead by Katie Mitchell and Elaine Kidd, Royal Opera House, November 2019 - August 2020
Tour director on Shakespeare's Othello (T.I.E.), White Horse Theatre, German tour, January-February 2020
Performer and creator, Theatre & Dragons, theatre jk, Camden People's Theatre, March 2017
Performer and creator, For Better For Worse, Roundhouse and Invisible Circus, Latitude, 2014
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