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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - The Answer to Everything
As Associate Artistic Director of Streetwise Opera (2011-2013), Emma concieved, wrote and directed the film opera project The Answer To Everything in collaboration with film director Rupert Jones, producer Jess Gormley and writer Joanna Coates.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - Fables – A Film Opera
a major project for Streetwise Opera premiered in Dec 2010. This involved artistic leadership of the making of four short opera films and creating a live performance for the premiere with 125 performers who had experienced homelessness.
DIRECTOR - My Secret Heart
ground-breaking sound and video installation by Mira Calix and Flat E. Directed live performance and movement with chorus of 80 homeless participants. Performed in Lucerne, Switzerland and at Royal Festival Hall Ballroom, London 2008.
DIRECTOR -Critical Mass (devised Gough/Bernard)
set in a conference of world leaders, political rhetoric is overwhelmed by choral folk songs. Performed by 16 professional singers (The Shout) and 30 homeless participants at Almeida Theatre in 2007.
Director
‘The Honey Man’ by Tyrone Huggins
(Birmingham Rep,Feb 2015)
New play about an unlikely alliance between an old bee-keeper and a schoolgirl that crosses the boundaries of age, gender and culture. Design by Timothy Bird.
DIRECTOR - ‘The Roadless Trip’
by Sarah Woods ( British Tour 2015)
Multi-media production mixing performance, film, audience interaction and the frenzy of the popular gameshow.
Director and Dramaturg
‘Drawing Life’ with composer Jocelyn Pook.
A new work commissioned by the Jewish Music Institute, inspired by poems and drawings by children in Terezin concentration camp.
NEWS: DRAWING LIFE WILL TOUR IN JANUARY 2016. DATES INCLUDE MILTON COURT AT BARBICAN THEATRE LONDON 30th January 2016
Director and Deviser
‘Breathe’ with composer Orlando Gough
(North Wall, Oxford Nov 2014)
Three women sing about breath from birth to death, supported by a chorus of respiratory patients. With Rebecca Askew, Anna Dennis and Melanie Pappenheim.
Director and Deviser
‘Falling’ with Melanie Pappenheim
Voice-theatre performance in Milton Keynes Gallery with music by Orlando Gough, Errollyn Wallen and Paul Clark. Collaborating artist: Deborah Thomas
(IF Festival, Milton Keynes, 2014)
Director and Dramaturg
‘Hearing Voices’ – a new commission by composer Jocelyn Pook for BBC Concert Orchestra and solo mezzo-soprano. Dec. 2012
Director and Writer
‘100% Norfolk’ - a re – working of Rimini Protokoll’s ‘100% Berlin’ for Norfolk and Norwich Festival, at Theatre Royal, Norwich, May 2012
Director and devisor
Jilted – an imagined meeting between Miss Havisham and Mrs Dickens devised with singers Melanie Pappenheim and Rebecca Askew and composers Orlando Gough, Michael Henry, Jocelyn Pook and Jeremy Peyton – Jones. Commissioned for Bath Literature Festival 2012
Flam (Orlando Gough)
Touring show. A short, funny and complex sung encounter. Devised with composer Orlando Gough and singers Melanie Pappenheim and Rebecca Askew.
Consultant Director
‘Souvenir’ by The Voice Project
Site specific promenade performance at Holkham Hall (Norfolk and Norwich Festival, 2014) featuring a huge community choir and music by composers including Jonathan Baker and Orlando Gough
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - Upon This Rock for Metal, Peterborough
a large –scale participatory project with The Liverpool Lantern Company, composer Jonathan Baker, and hundreds of local residents. Sept 2013.
DIRECTOR - The Royal Opera House Sun & Heir
A design-led site-specific project with ROH Education and the wide community of Thurrock in 2008. Loosely inspired by Das Rheingold. Performed at Tilbury docks by 10 professional performers and 50 local people.
Director
Cake (Sarah Woods) Jade Theatre Co. ‘03/’04
poignantly comic play about motherhood, baking, and striving for happiness. With puppetry by Steve Tiplady.
DIRECTOR of a new choral theatre piece ‘XXScharnhorst’
by Orlando Gough for HMS Belfast, Thames Festival 2012. Performed by Deutscher Chor London (dir. Barbara Höfling), The Bluebird Chorus and a group of percussionists from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, and Trinity College of Music.
CONSULTANT DIRECTOR
“The Man Who Wasn’t There”
for Genius Sweatshop, at ROH Linbury Studio, Nov 2010 ( and in development at ‘La Breche’, Normandy, spring 2010) Work on this and other circus projects, including Compagnie Defracto, was in association with Crying Out Loud.
FURTHER PROJECTS:
DIRECTOR: ‘Power’ a solo circus-theatre work by Charmaine Childs, aka ‘Strong Lady’ 2019/20 https://www.strongladyproductions.com/power/
DIRECTOR: ‘The Children’s Hour’ by Lillian Hellman, MA Acting, Guildford School of Acting ( during lockdown) 2020
DIRECTOR: ‘Guinea Pigs’ a new commission for University of Chichester by playwright Dare Aiyegbayo ( during lockdown) 2020
DIRECTOR: ‘Order’ with composer Orlando Gough and singer Melanie Pappenheim, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln 2020
PERFORMER: “Over the Moon”, binaural audio tour by Gobbledegook for Bloomsbury Festival 2019
PERFORMER and Director: ‘Treesong’ a performance activation for Beuys’ Acorns by artists Ackroyd and Harvey 2019
PERFORMER: “ON AIR” by artist Graeme Miller, Whitechapel Gallery/ sculpture in the City 2019
DIRECTOR: ‘Nell Gwynn’ by Jessica Swale, MA Acting, Guildford School of Acting 2019
DIRECTOR and devisor, ‘Madame Bovary’, UAL and Claremont Project 2019
DIRECTOR and devisor ‘Activists’, Bloomsbury Festival 2018/19
DIRECTOR: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ adapted by Sara Pascoe, and ‘Lovers Anonymous/ Love Orchestra’, devised, MA Acting, Guildford School of Acting 2018
DIRECTOR and devisor: ‘Bloomsbury Songs’ and ‘A Song For Coram’s Fields’ with composer Michale Henry Bloomsbury Festival 2016/17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5n0QzdlmA
DIRECTOR - Chinese premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes for Beijing Music Festival 2013
at Poly Theatre, Beijing. A semi- staged concert with Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Duncan Ward.
CONSULTANT DIRECTOR - They Came Back for Tete a Tete Festival 2014
by Martin Ward
New opera in development about visitations from beyond the grave.
DIRECTOR AND DEVISOR - A Young Person's Guide to....' for Opera North Verve project 2013. Working with composer Ben Glasstone and a group of young people with Asperger syndrome, to devise performances inspired by Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to The Orchestra
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of Streetwise Opera 2011-2013
an internationally renowned company that uses music to help people who have experienced homelessness move forward with their lives.
DIRECTOR - Swarm a participatory voice-theatre performance 2011
composed by Orlando Gough at The Barbican ‘Extraordinary Voices’ Festival
DIRECTOR/DEVISOR - Moi ( Mwah) a voice-theatre piece by Michael Henry and performed by Melanie Pappenheim, King's Place.
DIRECTOR - Sound and Space - a commission for LSO St. Luke’s 2010
by violinist Alexander Balanescu, accordionist Evelina Petrova and aerialist Gisele Edwards.
DIRECTOR - Cardboard Citizens 2009 ‘War and Homelessness’ Project
devising and directing two site specific pieces at The Cabinet War Rooms and a choreographed sequence for the play ‘Mincemeat’ by Adrian Jackson, as well as artistic management of 6 month project.
DIRECTOR - Cardboard Citizens 2009 Led Easy
new forum theatre play by David Watson, on tour of homeless hostels.
DIRECTOR - Theatre Venture 2008 The Arch Of The Imagination
launch of Tower Hamlets Cultural Olympiad. Large-scale site-specific event with community cast. In collaboration with artist Becca Chester and companies: Universal Citizens, Kinetika Bloco, Mahua, Green Candle, and 4 East London schools.
DIRECTOR/DEVISOR - The Shout ROH2/tour 2007 Fingerprint
new music theatre piece, devised with Orlando Gough and The Shout, on identity and conformity - the individual voice within the choral ‘singing machine’.
DIRECTOR - Askew and Avis ROH2 Firsts 2007 Tongue Tied
a silent teenage boy records and loops the voices of his arguing parents with comic and poignant results. Music theatre using new media.
DIRECTOR/DEVISER - Dartington Festival 2007 One, Two
music theatre piece by Orlando Gough, performed by six pairs of identical twin musicians.
DIRECTOR - Toynbee Theatre 2007 Against Oblivion
staging of new music theatre composition by Jeremy Peyton Jones, including choreography of instrumentalists.
DIRECTOR - LCF Cochrane Theatre 2007 Girl In The Forest (devised)
a new Red Riding Hood in a large scale collaboration with costume/make up/ tech effects students, professional cast and composer Hannah Marshall.
DIRECTOR/DEVISER - L.C.F. Cochrane Theatre 2006 Bluebeard (new adaptation)
wordless opera. A new version of the chilling tale of Bluebeard and his dead wives. Large scale collaboration with costume/make up/ tech effects students, professional cast and composer Hannah Marshall.
DIRECTOR - Chisenhale Dance Space 2006 Never Always (Karen da Silva)
a newly devised solo dance piece with confessional storytelling.
DIRECTOR - Southwark Playhouse 2006 Alive & Kicking (Doug Livingstone)
a new comic play performed by, and written from discussions with, members of Blackfriars Older People’s group.
DIRECTOR - Young Vic ‘Trust’ Project 2005 Can You See Me? (devised)
visual theatre piece devised with and performed by a group of ex-sex workers and based on their own life experiences.
DIRECTOR - The Shout 2004 Lip (Orlando Gough)
staging of a sequence of songs about love, three stories and a crooning competition.
DIRECTOR/DESIGNER - Scarlet Theatre 2003 The Wedding (Virgilio Pinera)
first English translation of 1950’s absurdist play, using distorted Latin choreography, with original score by Nigel Piper.
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