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Susannah Waters
Susannah has worked in a variety of art forms, including a ten-year career as an opera singer in which she performed principal roles in many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, The Royal Opera in Stockholm, and the Theatre de Chatelet.
Since 2001, she has been a writer and director.
Her first novel, Long Gone Anybody, was published by Black Swan in 2004 followed by a second, Cold Comfort, published by Doubleday in 2006. She is currently working on a third. She is an Associate Tutor in Creative Writing at the University of Sussex, as well as a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation.
Susannah also writes for the stage. Her first music theatre piece, the regina monologues, was commissioned by the Covent Garden Festival in 2001, and has toured extensively to music and literary festivals around the UK. It will be remounted in June 2008 as part of the Temple Festival in Middle Temple Hall, London. Other commissions for theatre pieces have included The One I Love, a music theatre piece on conscientious objection to war for New Kent Opera’s 2003 season, It’s Your Funeral, Baby, a fifteen-minute play in reaction to the war on Iraq for Brighton-based theatre company ‘Theatre and Beyond’, and a site-specific play, Red All Over, which she also directed, and was performed in six rooms of a hotel as part of the Lewes Live Literature Festival.
As a director, she has worked for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, New Kent Opera, the Royal College of Music, and in 2003, semi-staged Verdi’s Falstaff for Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra. In 2005 and 2007, she led a large-scale education project at the Sage Gateshead Music Centre on Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte (2005) and Don Giovanni (2007) for AS students in music and dance, run by the Samling Foundation, and culminating in the creation and performance of youth versions of the two operas. For the Paddock, she has directed Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep, Red All Over, and The Finnish Prisoner, which will now be performed in Finland in 2009.
Susannah lives in Lewes with her husband and two children.
General Manager
Mark Shayle
Mark Shayle – Mark is a graduate of the Central School of Speech
and Drama. Between 1985 and 1995 he was a Stage Manager and Production Manager in many theatrical environments, from repertory to small scale touring; working on shows like Miss Saigon and Me and My Girl
in the West End; Tour Managing the Kirov Ballet and Moscow Classical Ballet throughout the UK; Stage Managing the UK tour of Oklahoma!; and too many
fringe shows to list. In 1995 he joined Apollo Leisure
as a Production Manager, primarily touring large-scale musicals around the UK. He traded as a freelance Production Manager under the banner Ideal Production Services between 1997 and 2001, working in both the corporate and theatrical sectors working all over the world. Between 2001 and 2005 Mark headed up the Stage Management and Technical Theatre Course at LAMDA, one of the most renowned training programmes of its kind. In 2005 he returned to freelancing primarily undertaking project based work in and around Sussex. He combines this with occasional Stage Management lecturing and seminar work. A full biography can be viewed at www.shayley.dircon.co.uk
Associate Designer
Num Stibbe
Num has worked in opera, film and theatre.
Originally from Israel she now lives with her family in Lewes. As head of the Scenery and Props department
at the New Israeli Opera, she also designed opera
and developed educational workshops bringing opera
into the community. She has worked with scenery workshops throughout Europe including La Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Amsterdam and Cologne and in New York. Her latest design work
for the theatre was in Rome, mostly working with
Imogen Kusch and the Teatro Klesidra, and production work at Cinecittà. In the summer of 2005, she designed two Ravel operas for the Royal College of Music.
See also www.stibbe.plus.com
Karen Ascoe, actress
Richard Attlee, actor
Amanda Banks, choreographer
Lisa Barnard, photographer
Marcia Bellamy, singer
Emelia Benjamin, musician
Mark Birbeck, film-maker
Robin Blaze, singer
Charlotte Brennand, musician
Dirk Campbell, composer
Max Carrington,
graphic designer
Anna Carlisle, choreographer
Stephen Chaundy, singer
Martina Clarke, actress
Emma Coles, dancer
Anne Colvin, choreographer
Concordia, viol consort
Hannah Copcutt, costume designer
Joe Crouch, musician
Jonathan Cullen, actor/director
Helen Day, actress
Jacob Dorff-Petersen, dancer
Samuel Dutton, actor
Philip Edwards, musician
Chris Ettridge, actor
Virginia Farman, choreographer
Sophie Gibson, website design
Orlando Gough, composer
Nicole Griffin, graphic designer
Richard Hahlo, actor
John Hancorn, singer/conductor
Andrea Hall, actress
Russell Harvey, carpenter
Ed Hession, musician
Fiona Higham, musician
Jo Howarth, actress
Monica Huggett, musician
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, singer
Amelia Jacobs, musician
Penelope Keith, actress
Tiffany Landamore, choreographer
Mark Levy, musicians, Music Director of Concordia
Ruth Lilley, administrator
Hilton Marlton, singer
Michi Mathias, musician
Miranda Melville, designer
Julie Malooli, Makeup Artist
Rachel Munro, singer/chorus director
Steve North, actor
Jarmo Ojala, singer
Kate Pollak, musician/songwriter
Stephen Plaice, librettist
Andrew Rupp, singer
Lesley-Anne Sammons, musician
Joanna Songi, singer
Siona Stockel, singer
Janet Suzman, actress
Clare O’Donoghue, lighting designer
Ellan Parry, designer
William Purefoy, singer
Katrine Reimers, repetiteur/conductor
Carmen Slijpen,
costume designer
Raphaella Sapir, props designer
Yolande Snaith, choreographer
Jodie Summerfield, choreographer
Hannah Tofts, artist
Jenny Tiramani, designer
Darren Tunstall, actor
Laura Woods, project manager
Sian Webber, actress
Louise Webster, choreographer
Andrew Wells, singer
Kitty Winter, movement director
Leo Wringer, actor
Joseph Young, composer