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Jacqueline Coats
Jacqueline has a Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from Victoria University of Wellington and Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. Since graduating she has established her name creating works for such national companies and festivals as the NZ Festival of the Arts, NZ Opera, Wellington Opera, Victorian Opera (Australia), Capital E National Theatre for Children, … Read more
Lucy Mulgan
Lucy Mulgan is a composer, lyricist, arranger and bassist from Aotearoa New Zealand based in the UK. She predominantly composes and performs vocal music – often writing for and working with children, vulnerable adults and other community groups. Since 2019 RED! has been performed by 1000+ young people in Aotearoa NZ and the UK – … Read more
Michael Vinten
Michael has been involved with opera in New Zealand for over thirty years, starting as Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for Wellington City Opera in 1991 and retaining those positions when New Zealand Opera was formed in 2000. He has arranged and conducted opera-in-schools programmes, conducted performances for Opera Hawke’s Bay, Whanganui Opera, Day’s Bay … Read more
Max Pappenheim
Max Pappenheim is a sound designer and composer based in south London. He is an Associate Artist of The Faction, Silent Opera, and Orange Tree Theatre, and has trained and worked on Radio Drama with the BBC. His many theatre credits includeThe Night of the Iguana and Cruise in the West End; The Children on Broadway; Noughts and Crosses … Read more
Jake Wiltshire
Jake designs extensively both in the UK and Worldwide. His work has been seen with major opera companies and festivals including The Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Oper Leipzig, Garsington Opera and St. Galler Festspiele, as well as many of the UK’s top music conservatoires. Internationally, he has worked … Read more
Adrian Linford
Adrian Linford was born in Cambridgeshire, trained at Wimbledon School of Art, and lives in London. Credits include Allan Bennett’s The Habit of Art which had two UK tours and received the New York Times Critic’s Pick when it was performed as part of the 2023 Brits-off-Broadway season in New York, as well as A … Read more
Daisy Evans
Daisy Evans works in opera, film and theatre as a director and writer. She won the Royal Philharmonic Society Opera Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production in Opera, and Outstanding Direction for her production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, which has been performed globally. Recent productions include Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for Irish National Opera, Rossini’s Il … Read more
Eleanor Bishop
Eleanor Bishop is a director and writer working across theatre, opera and film. She is a former Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist for NZ Opera for whom she directed her first opera in 2022 – The Strangest of Angels – a new work about the life of celebrated author Janet Frame by Anna Leese and Kenneth Young. In … Read more