CV
Upcoming/In Development
Song Cycle | Writer | with composer Anne Cawrse
Diary of a Madman | Librettist | An opera-ballet in one act, adapted from Nikolai Gogol
Writing/Directing:
A Christmas Carol | Director | Victorian Opera | Dec 2022
A festive (!) new opera by Anna Goldsworthy and Graeme Koehne
Education Workshop | Director | Opera Australia | Aug 2022
Carnival of the Animals | Director
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2022
The Selfish Giant (another season!) | Librettist
with composer Simon Bruckard, Victorian Opera, Arts Centre Playhouse Melbourne 2022
La Juive (Halévy) | Assistant Director
Dir. Constantine Costi (Olivier Py), Cond. Carlo Montanaro. Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House 2022
Atelier Opera Scenes | Director
with Masters of Opera Students, Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, 2021
Die Freunde von Salamanka (Schubert) | Writer (adaptation)/Director
Victorian Opera Youth Company, 2021
Performance of a Lifetime | Writer/Director
COVID-19 vaccination social media campaign, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2021
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)| Writer/Director
Physical theatre and puppetry production for children, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cond. Nicholas Bochner, 2021
Listen to My Story (Van Konkelenberg) | Librettist
Co-Opera Adelaide/Tour, 2021
The Selfish Giant (Bruckard) | Writer
Victorian Opera, Gasworks Theatre 2019
Missing | Assistant/Tour Director
National Youth Orchestra GB 2019, Dir. Karen Gillingham
Alice Through the Opera Glass | Writer
Victorian Opera, Playhouse Arts Centre Melbourne 2019
The Top of the Hill | Writer/Director
RADA 2019
Surrogacy | Writer/Director
RADA 2019
Cool Air (Ron Sandahl) | Director (staged reading)
Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 2019
The Tempest (Shakespeare) | Director
RADA, 2018
Terra Nulls | Writer/Director
RADA, 2018
Singing
Romeo (cover), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini), cond. Richard Mills, Victorian Opera, 2018
Giannetta, L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Amici in Musica, Netherlands, 2018
Flora, La Traviata (Verdi), dir. Sophie Gilpin, cond. Sam Evans, Hampstead Garden Opera, London, 2018
Opera Australia Chorus, La Boheme (Puccini), 2016
Opera Australia Chorus, The Pearlfishers (Bizet), 2016
Opera Australia Chorus, Luisa Miller (Verdi), 2016
Victorian Opera Chorus, Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), 2016
Victorian Opera Chorus, Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), 2016
Anna (cover), Die Sieben Todsünden (Weill), cond. Tahu Matheson, Victorian Opera/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, 2015
Katja/Marianne/Commentator, Seven Deadly Sins (Various), cond. Tahu Matheson, Victorian Opera/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, 2015
Enrichetta (cover), I Puritani (Bellini), Victorian Opera, 2015
Marianne (cover), The Riders (Ian Grandage), Victorian Opera, 2014.
Nurse/Wife, Remembrance (Richard Mills), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Victorian Opera, 2015
Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), cond. Fabian Russell, Victorian Opera, 2014
Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Operaland (Various), Victorian Opera, 2015
Victorian Opera Chorus, Norma (Bellini), 2014
Training
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, MA Text and Performance
Victorian College of the Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, MMus Opera Performance
Victorian College of the Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, BMus Vocal Performance, Hons Musicology
Other Training
Lighting workshop with Elliot Griggs, Young Vic, 2020.
Introduction to Screenwriting, University of East Anglia, 2020
Viewpoints physical theatre with Jay Paul Skelton, 2018/2019
Frantic Assembly physical theatre artist workshop, 2019
Second City Improvisation, London, 2018
Extensive language and phonology/pronunciation training in German, French, Italian.
Awards
2020 Green Room Award for Outstanding Musical Achievement: New Australian Opera The Selfish Giant
City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grant, 2020
Australia Council for the Arts Career Development Grant, 2018
A E Floyd Memorial Travel Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2015
Harold Clarke and Elizabeth English Scholarship for Best Essay on a Musical Subject, University of Melbourne 2012
Global Mobility Travel Grant, University of Melbourne 2011