Recent Productions & Projects

Summer 2024

Jane Eyre

based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë devised by Sally Cookson & the original company

Victoria Moseley director
Miriam Nabarro set designer
Natasha Jenkins costume designer
Laura Moody composer
Oliver Hynds lighting designer
Ben Collins sound designer
Ira Mandela Siobhan movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Bethan Clark fight director
Sam Thorpe-Spinks assistant director
Olivia Fowler assistant costume designer

Spring 2024

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

Paul Foster director
Liam Bunster designer
Hansjörg Schmidt lighting designer
Livia Mackenzie sound designer
Emma Woods movement director
Haruka Kuroda fight director
Annemette Verspeak company voice work
Oliver Hynds assistant lighting designer

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Chelsea Walker director
Peiyao Wang designer
Fergus Brignall composer
Sam Bernstein lighting designer
Finn Rowden sound designer
Tom Shackleton video designer
Diane Alison-Mitchell movement director
Lucy Fennell intimacy director
Annemette Verspeak company voice

Autumn 2023

Yerma

by Federico García Lorca translated by Ursula Rani Sarma

Sophie Dillon Moniram director
Dora Schweitzer set & costume designer
Jess Williams movement director
Sarah Llewellyn composer/musical director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Jonathan Waller fight director
Annemette Verspeak company voice work
Elizabeth Laurence assistant director
Joe McKenna lighting designer
Jan Robotycki sound designer
Sandy McGregor video designer
Shaunna Cheriton assistant costume designer

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Days of Significance

by Roy Williams

Monique Touko director
Amy Jane Cook set & costume designer
Kloé Dean movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Jonathan Waller fight director
Anita Gander associate designer
Simon Money company voice work
Oliver Hynds lighting designer
Finn Rowden sound designer

See production photos

Summer 2023

Antigone

by Stef Smith

Orla O’Loughlin director
Diane Alison-Mitchell associate director & movement director
Amanda Stoodley designer
Andy Purves lighting designer
Max Pappenheim sound designer
Ben Shepherd associate sound designer
Haruka Karoda intimacy & fight director

See production photos

Spring 2023

Attempts on Her Life

By Martin Crimp

Emma Baggott director
Peter Butler set & costume designer
Adi Gortler movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Ros Chase lighting designer
Levi Meehan Powell sound designer
Ryan Samuel Davies video designer

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Dance Nation

by Clare Barron

Paul Foster director
Cory Shipp set & costume designer
Alistair David movement director
Ethan Howlett lighting designer
Levi Meehan-Powell sound designer
Ben Shepherd video designer
Jonathan Waller fight director
Lucy Fennell intimacy director
Simon Money company voice work

See production photos and behind the scenes photos

The Gift

by Janice Okoh

Ola Ince director
Libby Watson set & costume designer
Diane Alison-Mitchell movement director
Jonathan Waller fight director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Ashe de Waal lighting designer
Sam Greening composer
Reinis Melihovs sound designer
Abu Mensah video designer
Raphaella Philcox associate designer
Annemette Verspeak company voice work

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Ashley Zhangazha director
Libby Watson set & costume designer
Nick Peel lighting designer
Rakhee Sharma movement director
Jonathan Waller fight director
Lucy Fennell intimacy director
Alex Groves composer
Takiyah Campbell sound designer
Ryan Samuel Davies video designer
Raphaella Philcox associate designer
Simon Money company voice work

See production photos

Autumn 2022

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

John Haidar director
Laura Ann Price set & costume designer
Joshua Gadsby lighting designer
Levi Meehan-Powell sound designer
Diane Alison-Mitchell movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Claire Habbershaw & Annemette Verspeak vocal arrangement & musical direction
Simon Money company voice work
Ashe De Waal assistant lighting designer

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Hyde & Seek

by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu director
Sandra Falase set & costume designer
Ros Chase lighting designer
Xana sound designer
Takiyah Campbell video designer
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Jonathan Waller fight director
Tanaka Bingwa movement director
Hanna Dimtsu associate movement director
Annemette Verspeak company voice work
With additional lyrics by Westerfield Oreoluwa Ibikunle Shoderu

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Everyman

by Carol Ann Duffy

Katherine Nesbitt director
Amanda Mascarenhas set designer
Vanessa Lingham costume designer
Lucy Glassbrook movement director
Simon Money company voice work
Annemette Verspeak company voice work
Josh Cole Brown lighting designer
Livia Brewster sound designer
Levi Meehan Powell video designer

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Summer 2022

Dennis of Penge

by Annie Siddons

Emma Baggott director
Asaf Zohar musical director/composer
Zoë Hurwitz set designer
Stewart J Charlesworth costume designer
Elliot Griggs lighting designer
Ruth Anna Phillips movement director
Christina Fulcher movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Grace Duff sound designer
Dan Light video designer
See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Spring 2022

Pilgrims

by Elinor Cook

Georgia Green director
Cory Shipp designer
Rajiv Pattani lighting designer
Oliver Brown sound designer
Reuben Cohen video designer
Diane Alison-Mitchell movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Lucy Rodgers costume designer
Adi Currie assistant lighting designer
See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Urinetown, The Musical

Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis

Ashley Zhangazha director
Libby Watson designer
Jonathan Chan lighting designer
Steven Edis musical director 
Takiyah Campbell sound designer
Vicki Igbokwe choreographer
Jack Bennett assistant musical director
See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Road

by Jim Cartwright

Paul Foster director
Liam Bunster designer
Georgie Bottone lighting designer
Levi Meehan-Powell sound designer
Mandy Gordon movement director
Kate Waters fight director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Lucy Lawless assistant costume designer
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Intimate Apparel

by Lynn Nottage

Mumba Dodwell director
Liam Bunster designer
Nick Peel lighting designer
Eve Clayton sound designer
Diane Alison-Mitchell movement director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Lucy Lawless assistant costume designer
See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Autumn 2021

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Marina Carr

Derek Bond director
Amy Jane Cook designer
Jamie Platt lighting designer
Dyfan Jones composer/sound designer
Lucy Cullingford movement director
Dan Light video designer
Yarit Dor fight & intimacy director
Jonathan Chan assistant lighting designer
Emmy Briggs assistant director
See production photos and behind the scenes photos
Watch the trailer & go backstage with our Stage Management team

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

Anna Morrissey director 
Clara Goodman designer
Adi Currie lighting designer
Hayley Chilvers movement director
Jamie Hulme sound designer
Grace Duff video designer
Jonathan Waller fight director
Will Wadham composer
See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Emilia

by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Karen Tomlin director & movement director
Louie Whitemore designer
Guy Knox-Holmes lighting designer
Sam Ferstenberg sound designer
Devon James-Bowen video designer
Christianna Mason associate designer
Emmy Briggs assistant director
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Barbarians 

by Maxim Gorky)
translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair and Jeremy Brooks

Co-directed by Oliver Dimsdale and Victoria Moseley for Filter Theatre
Oliver Dimsdale co-director
Victoria Moseley co-director
Amy Jane Cook designer
Ieva Vaiti composer and sound design
Lucía Sánchez Roldán lighting designer
Thomas Dixon sound designer
Sarah Jane Schostack associate director
See production photos and watch the trailer
Go behind the scenes with our Design Realisation teams

Gone Too Far! 

by Bola Agbaje

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu director
Camilla Clarke designer
Mark Jonathan lighting designer
Paradigmz movement director
DK Fashola movement director
Conrad Kira composer
India Mills sound designer
AM Limitless associate costume designer
Sarah Jane Schostack associate director
See production photos and watch the Summer 2021 season trailer 
Go behind the scenes with the Costume and Lighting teams

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

by Anne Washburn

Score by Michael Friedman
Lyrics by Anne Washburn
Chelsea Walker director
Tarek Merchant musical director
Camilla Clarke designer
Michela Meazza movement director
Tyler Edwards-Tagg lighting designer
Anja Urban sound designer
See production photos and watch the Summer 2021 season trailer 
Go behind the scenes with the Costume and Lighting teams

Love and Information

by Caryl Churchill

Pooja Ghai director
Rosa Maggiora designer
Diane Alison Mitchell movement director
Andy Taylor composer
Samuel Levy lighting designer
Maisie Roberts sound designer
See production photos and watch the Summer 2021 season trailer 

Spring 2021

Jackal Run

created and directed by Breach
devised with the Company

Billy Barrett director, co-writer
Ellice Stevens co-writer
Dorothy Allen-Pickard dramaturg, video director
Anna Reid design mentor
Adi Currie sound designer
Dan Light video designer
Imogen Leather costume designer
Emma Peace costume designer 
Ellie Claughton producer
See production photos and read the Q&A with Breach, design mentor Anna Reid and our Production Arts students

All Your Houses

created and directed by Barrel Organ
devised with the Company

Ali Pidsley co-director
Ed Madden co-director
Rosie Gray and Company text
Anna Reid design mentor
Eilidh MacKenzie lighting designer
Jonathan Chan sound designer
Tara Boland costume designer
Miriam Houghton costume designer
Lucy Lawless costume designer 
Ellie Claughton producer 
Lesley Posso editor 
Charlie Yang composer
Charlie Jenkins cinematographer 
Dan Light co-director of photography
See production photos and read the Q&A with Barrel Organ and Guildhall actors

Pieces of Us

Created by Guildhall School students
Jude Christian dramaturg
Watch the trailer and read our Q&A with the cast and Stage Management students

The Drowned World

by Gary Owen

John Haidar director
James Allen Composer
Charlie Vince-Crowhurst Video Designer
Watch the trailer and hear our cast talk about making this online production

Autumn 2020

Pod

Created and directed by Jamie Bradley and Vicki Igbokwe, devised with the Company
Jess Curtis designer
Matt Daw lighting designer
Kweku Aacht composer
Sam Levy sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video 
Find out more about the work of the Costume team

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Suba Das director
Grace Smart designer
Ed Lewis composer
Lucy Cullingford movement director
Jack Stevens lighting designer
Thomas Dixon sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video 
Find out more about the work of the Costume team

Summer 2020

Grease 

Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey (Internal virtual production)

Martin Connor director
Claire Brown co-director
Joanna Goodwin choreographer
Stewart J Charlesworth designer
Charlie Morgan Jones lighting designer
Gareth Tucker for Autograph sound designer
Liam Strong assistant lighting designer

Spring 2020

Earthquakes in London

by Mike Bartlett

Abigail Graham director
Angela Gasparetto movement director
Sarah Beaton designer
Sofia Di Lorenzo lighting designer
Anna Clock composer and sound designer
Liam Strong video designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video

The Royale

by Marco Ramirez

Ameera Conrad director
Louie Whitemore designer
Samuel Harris lighting designer
Tom Lishman sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video

Gut

by Frances Poet

Kate Budgen director
Louie Whitemore designer
Nick Peel lighting designer
Andy Taylor sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video

Autumn 2019

Provok'd: A Restoration

devised by the Company

Jamie Bradley director
Vicki Igbokwe associate director and choreographer
Jess Curtis designer
Matt Daw lighting designer
Peter Buffery sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video

The Wheel

by Zinnie Harris

Caroline Byrne director
Ana Inés Jabares-Pita designer
Tasha Taylor Johnson composer
Liam Strong lighting designer
Dan Barnicott sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video

Red Velvet

by Lolita Chakrabarti

Wyn Jones director
Susannah Henry designer
Chloe Stally-Gibson lighting designer
Alex Hobbs sound designer
See production photos and watch the behind the scenes video

Summer 2024

Alcina

A charming sorceress. A dashing knight. A daring fiancée.
Enter Alcina’s mystical island, its shores a trap for unsuspecting men. The beautiful enchantress casts spells to make men love her - then cruelly discards them,  transforming them into wild creatures or trees or rocks.

Associate Head of Vocal Studies John Ramster directs Handel’s epic fantasy opera.

Spring 2024

A Star Next to the Moon

Stephen McNeff’s latest opera, A Star Next to the Moon, receives its world premiere at Guildhall School. Based on Juan Rulfo’s iconic novel Pedro Páramo, with a libretto by Aoife Mannix, the piece explores how love and belonging struggle under a tyrannical regime.

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Anna Reid designer
Anthony Doran lighting designer
Jonathan Waller fight director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director

Autumn 2023

Opera Double Bill: Respighi

Maria egiziaca 
La bella dormente nel bosco

The life stories of two eponymous female heroes are explored in this double bill of captivating operatic works by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, directed by Victoria Newlyn and conducted by Dominic Wheeler.

Victoria Newlyn director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Laura Jane Stanfield designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer

Alistair Burton assistant conductor
Laurie Slavin assistant director
Yongqiu Yuan chief music coach
Ben Kubiak & Samuele Piccinini répétiteurs

See production photos

Summer 2023

Opera Double Bill: Sāvitri by Gustav Holst & Blond Eckbert by Judith Weir

Ashley Dean director
Timothy Redmond conductor
Anna Bonomelli designer
Andrew May lighting designer
Jonathan Waller fight director
Anne Sutton assistant director
Aoife Moran assistant conductor (Sāvitri)
Edwin Spark assistant conductor (Blond Eckbert)
Alistair Burton (Blond Eckbert), Aleksandra Myslek (Sāvitri), Michael Rose (Sāvitri), Yongqiu Yuan (Blond Eckbert) répétiteurs

See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Spring 2023

Dead Man Walking

Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto by Terrence McNally
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Anna Reid designer
Anthony Doran lighting designer
Andy Taylor sound designer
Edie Bailey & Anne Sutton assistant directors
Edwin Spark assistant conductor & chorus master
Kyra Coppini associate designer
Ros Chase associate lighting designer
Aoife Moran chief music coach
Alistair Burton & Michael Rose répétiteurs

See production photos

Autumn 2022

Opera Triple Bill: Le Portrait De Manon by Jules Massenet libretto by Georges Boyer, Fête Galante by Dame Ethel Smyth libretto by Dame Ethel Smyth and Edward Shanks, I due timidi by Nino Rota libretto by Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Rodula Gaitanou director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Simon Corder set & lighting designer
Laura Jane Stanfield costume & props designer

See production photos and behind the scenes photos

Summer 2022

Opera Triple Bill: Collection of Madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi & Der Zar lässt sich photographieren music by Kurt Weill (orch. Vahan Salorian) libretto by Georg Kaiser

Chris Hopkins conductor
Victoria Newlyn director
Louie Whitemore designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Joseph Beesley assistant conductor & chorus master
Monica Nicolaides assistant director
Amy Hill associate designer (costume)
Jonathan Chan assistant lighting designer

See production photos

Spring 2022

Opera Double Bill: Miss Fortune by Judith Weir & The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Anna Reid designer
Anthony Doran lighting designer
Joseph Beesley assistant conductor
Rachel Wise assistant director/movement

See production photos & behind the scenes photos

Autumn 2021

Opera Double Bill: Le docteur Miracle by Georges Bizet & Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot, orchestrated by Amy Crankshaw

Dominic Wheeler conductor 
Ashley Dean director  
Cordelia Chisholm designer
Kevin Treacy lighting designer
Digory Price assistant conductor
Rachel Wise assistant director

See production photos

Summer 2021

Opera Makers

Paradise Garden
Emily Hazrati composer
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh librettist

Text
Michael Bascom composer
Clare Best librettist

The Watchmaker’s Daughter
Michał Kawecki composer
Mac Morris librettist

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dominic Wheeler music director
Louie Whitemore designer
Finlay Anderson lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn movement
Eleanor Burke assistant director
Will Sharma assistant conductor

See production photos

Beginnings: New and Early Opera

The Apothecary
Amy Crankshaw composer
Clare Best librettist

Judicium Salomonis
by Carissimi 

Eintänzer
Aran O’Grady composer
Kaitlin Sullivan librettist

I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning
Ábel Esbenshade composer
Aubrey Lavender librettist

Orphée descendant aux enfers H.471
by Charpentier

Chad Kelly conductor
John Ramster director
Louis Carver designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn movement director
Toby Hession & Josh Ridley assistant conductors

See production photos

Spring 2021

The Little Green Swallow

Music by Jonathan Dove
Libretto adapted from Carlo Gozzi
English singing translation by Adam Pollock
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dick Bird designer
Rory Beaton lighting designer
Anna Reid associate designer

November 2020

Opera Triple Bill: Wolf-Ferrari Il segreto di Susanna (Susanna’s Secret), Mascagni Zanetto, Donizetti Rita (Two Men and a Woman) - see production photos

Stephen Medcalf director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Cordelia Chisholm designer
Simon Corder lighting designer

July 2020

Virtual Opera Makers

John Ramster director
Tim Redmond music director
Louis Carver designer
Jack Weir lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn choreographer

The Apothecary
Clare Best writer
Amy Crankshaw composer

Eintänzer
Kaitlin Sullivan writer
Aran O’Grady composer

I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning
Aubrey Lavender writer
Ábel Esbenshade composer

June 2020

Virtual Opera Double Bill - Purcell Dido and Aeneas and Respighi La bella dormente nel bosco

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Olivia Fuchs director
takis designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn movement director
May Howard-Shigeno assistant director
Will Sharma & Josh Ridley assistant conductors and chorus masters
Liam Sayer & Rin Akiyama assistant lighting designers

Watch the trailer

February 2020

The Angel Esmeralda (world premiere)

Commissioned by Scottish Opera
Adapted from the short story by Don DeLillo 
Music by Lliam Paterson (Former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Composer in Residence)
Libretto by Pamela Carter

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Gregor Donnelly designer
Robbie Butler lighting designer
Liam Strong video designer

See production photos

November 2019

Haydn La Fedeltà Premiata

Alice Farnham conductor
Stephen Barlow director
Adrian Linford designer
David Howe lighting designer
Emily Coppola assistant director
Manon Fischer-Dieskau assistant conductor

See production photos

• Emma Baggott
• Paul Foster
• Ola Ince
• Ashley Zhangazha
• Martin Lloyd-Evans
• John Haidar 
• Rodula Gaitanou
• Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
• Katherine Nesbitt
• Stephen Barlow
• Lisa Blair
• Joseph Blatchley
• Martin Connor
• Ashley Dean
• John Haider
• Stephen Medcalf
• Tim Redmond

• Peter Butler
• Cory Shipp
• Libby Watson
• Nate Gibson
• Laura Ann Price
• Simon Corder
• Dick Bird
• Frankie Bradshaw
• Cecilia Carey
• Simon Corder
• Susannah Henry
• Francis O’Connor
• Dora Schweitzer
• Takis
• Adam Wiltshire

• Joshua Gadsby
• Rory Beaton
• Robbie Butler
• Simon Corder
• Chris Davey
• Tim Deiling
• David Holmes
• Howard Hudson
• Mark Jonathan
• Tim Lutkin
• Peter Mumford
• Nick Peel
• Declan Randall
• Johanna Town
• Kevin Treacy

• Russell Godwin
• Mikko Gordon
• Ben Harrison
• Gareth Owen
• Colin Pink
• Charlie Smith
• Kerry Yong
• Xana

• Karl Dixon
• Bill Dudley
• Duncan McClean
• Dan Shorten
• Kate Yoland
• Pete Wallace

• Robert Holmes
• Natasha Pater

• Evelien Van Camp 
• Claire Nicolas
• Clare Amos
• Anna Barcock
• Jo Bradley