Biography

DIRECTOR

1978 to present Freelance Theatre Director


1979 Associate Director, Old Vic Theatre Company, London
1980 Staff Director, National Theatre of Great Britain, London SE1 (to 1983)
1981 Associate Director, Glyndebourne Festival Opera (until 1986)
1982 Artistic Director, South London Opera
1983 Director, Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera Programme

Associate Director/Assistant to Sir Peter Hall, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bayreuth Festival, Germany (also 1984)

1984 Visiting Lecturer in Performance Studies, Manchester University, England
1985 Spielleieter/Szenische Betreuung ,Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bayreuth
1986 Artistic Director, Dublin Grand Opera/Opera Ireland until 1990
1992- Associate Director City Theatre Dublin.

Visiting Lecturer in Performance Studies Manchester University England

1985 Spielleieter/Szenische Betreuung ,Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bayreuth
1986 Artistic Director, Dublin Grand Opera/Opera Ireland until 1990
1992 Associate Director City Theatre Dublin.

Freelance Theatre and Opera productions since 1986 include engagements with Wexford Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, Israeli Opera, Opernhaus Halle, Opera Comique, Paris, Opera de Nice, Opera National du Rhin Strasbourg, Opera Ireland, Teatro Teresa Carreno,
Caracas, Opera de Montreal, Vancouver Opera, Stanley Hall Opera, Opera Theatre Company Ireland, Carl Rosa Opera, Mozart Festival La Coruna, Schwetzingen Festival, Vienna Volksoper, National Theatre Tokyo, Dublin Theatre Festrival, City Theatre Dublin, The Machine Theatre Company, Dublin, Tyneside Theatre Company,Sheffield
Crucible Theatre, Theatr Clwyd , Contact Theatre Manchesterr, Chichester Festival Theatre and various fringe and commercial managements in the UK and Ireland.

EDUCATIONAL, TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT WORK

1982-Present Productions, workshops and masterclasses for
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1982-1997)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1982-83)
Manchester University Drama Department (1984-85)
National Opera Studio, London (1984-2002)
Royal College of Music,London(1987-1988)
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow (1988)
Royal Academy of Music ,London (1990-1992)
Leinster School of Music, Dublin (1990-2002)
Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin (1996-2001)
British Youth Opera London (2001-Present)
Trinity College, Dublin
Young Artists Training Programme, National Theatre, Tokyo (2005)

WRITING, ADAPTATIONS and TRANSLATIONS

Directing a Play (Phaidon Theatre Arts Manuals) ,Phaidon Press London ,1993.

RADIO

Serials of feature length biographies of Gilbert and Sullivan, Noel Coward and George Bernard Shaw for RTE LYRIC fm.

Arts and entertainment features for RTE Radio and RTE Lyric FM 1992-present.

The Matchmaker, BBC Radio 4,2002 (nominated for Sony Radio Comedy Award)

Mysteries 2000, City Theatre Dublin.
Wuthering Heights, City Theatre Dublin 2005
La Dispute (libretto after Marivaux)
Great Expectations (libretto adapted from Dickens )
The Game of Love and Chance (Chichester Festival 1988)
Children’s Shows for City Theatre Dublin 2000-2006
Innocent Merriment! A Gilbert and Sullivan Cabaret Irish Tour 2007
Don Juan , Amphytryon, George Dandin (Moliere)
Thomas More (Jean Anouilh)
The Guilty Mother (Beaumarchais)
Thrilled to Bits (Nestroy)
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Kasimir and Karoline, The Divorcement of Figaro (Horvath)
Master Puntila and His Hired Man Matt, Seven Deadly Sins, Threepenny Opera (Brecht)
The Robbers (Schiller)
The Impressario from Smyrna , The Holiday Trilogy(Goldoni)
Filumena (de Filippo)

Skills