Director

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Di directing SERVICES NO LONGER REQUIRED with BBC at The Imperial War Museum North – part of BBC’s WWI commemorations.

Alexander the Great – Between Dreams and Imagination – performance at The British Library, February 2023 with visuals by Paul Benny. Adapted by Elizabeth Filipouli with dramaturgy by Di. 

He Said She Thought– video installation and live performance on gender relations in the corporate world by Carol Shymanski – Signs and Symbols, Forsyth Street, New York.

Mary’s Hand – site specific. Tete a Tete Festival 2018, UK touring & Three Choirs Festival Gloucester. 
 

 

 

New Playwrights Showcase 2013-15  – University of Birmingham

Imperfection, Chastity Belt, InVocation – solo shows for Peta Lily

Miss Havisham’s Expectations – Trafalgar Studios (One Spirit Productions) Edinburgh Festival (Seabright Productions)

Services No Longer Required – BBC Philharmonic, composer Richard Taylor. Site specific Imperial War Museum North, live broadcast Radio Manchester, part of the BBC’s World War 1 commemorations. Parts 1&2:


The World’s Wife – Trafalgar Studios & UK Tour, Edinburgh Festival 2009 (Seabright Productions)

OMG! Ovid Unplugged – Youth Music Theatre UK, all-girl music theatre work, composer William Morris, Square Chapel Theatre Halifax.

The Pool Game by Liz Tomlin – Yorkshire Touring & London, site specific
Naciketa work in progress director for Opera Circus in collaboration with Opera North.

Songs from the Bridgewater Canal BBC Philharmonic, Lowry Theatre, composer Fraser Trainer.

Salford Tales – BBC Philharmonic, Bridgewater Hall and MediaCity UK, with Matthew Barley, broadcast Radio 3 & Radio Manchester.

Who Killed Ramona Rhapsody? – a Musical Murder Mystery. Commissioned by BBC Philharmonic – schools tour, adapted for BBC Radio 3, subsequently translated into Dutch and German.

Inferno – commissioned by Birmingham University.

Elizabeth the Virgin Queen – City of London Festival – performed by Di with the Choir of the Chapels Royal

The Bard’s Ball – site specific contemporary circus in aid of Comic Relief for The Generating Company.

London 24/7 – contemporary circus for young performers, The Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe

Empress Stah in Zero G – neo-burlesque, Truman Brewery

The Best of Empress Stah – neo-burlesque, Soho Review Bar