Director/Choreographer

trained in classical dance and has worked as a ballet dancer and trapeze artist for 20 years. Choreography/ Movement direction includes: Turandot (Geneva, Tokyo); Un ballo in maschera (Oslo, Copenhagen); Asrael (Bonn); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Effigies of Wickedness (The Gate); The Phoenix, La traviata, Don Carlos (Houston Grand Opera); Parsifal (Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera); Pyramus and Thisbe, Faust (Canadian Opera); L’elisir d’amore (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera North, Opera Oviedo, Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera); Madama Butterfly, Carmen (Vlaamse Opera); The Tales of Hoffmann (Malmö Opera); Belshazzar, Orfeo ed Euridice/Dido and Aeneas (Grange Festival); Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park); The Magic Flute, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, La Comte Ory, Falstaff and Giorno di Regno (Garsington Opera). For Opera North: Peter Grimes, Rusalka, The Merry Widow, La clemenza di Tito, Albert Herring, Gianni Schicchi, Andrea Chénier, The Little Greats season, The Greek Passion and Aleko. His own work includes In Search of Youkali, a collection of Kurt Weill songs.