projects

directing

  • Noye's Fludde (2023)

  • the lost life of tilly macleod (2024)

  • denis & Katya (2022)

  • The Magic Flute (2018)

Assisting

  • Hänsel und gretel (2024)

    Royal Academy of Music

    Dir. Jack Furness

  • The Turn of the Screw (2024)

    Waterperry Opera Festival

    Dir. Rebecca Meltzer

  • trouble in tahiti (2023)

    Grimeborne / Arcola Theatre

    Dir. Finn Lacey

  • bluebeard's castle (2022)

    Grimeborn / Arcola Theatre

    Dir. Eleanor Burke

Community

  • Our Street (2024)

    Music & Theatre For All

    Supporting Artist
    Dir. Tom Guthrie

  • Sen schools - Puppetry (2024)

    Create Arts changing:minds

    Supporting Artist
    Led by Robyn Olivia

  • adult carers - music

    Create Arts creative:voices Nottingham

    Supporting Artist
    Led by Bethan Roberts

  • Young carers - music (2024)

    Create Arts our:voices Bromley

    Supporting Artist
    Led by Paul Griffiths

  • Adult carers - music (2024)

    Create Arts creative:voices Lambeth

    Supporting Artist
    Led by Paul Griffiths

  • Teacher-Singer (2022-present)

    Pimlico Musical Foundation

The lost life of tilly macleod

by A. L. Dowie

Artled Productions CIC (August 2024)

Director – Oscar Simms

Lighting Designer – Cathy Stewart

Technician – James Grout-Smith

Tilly MacLeod – Sandra Voe

Isla MacLeod – Olivia Maffett

Adjavella Samoura – Amie Buhari

Elspeth Campbell – Gabriella Tavini

The Turn of the screw

by Benjamin Britten

Waterperry Opera Festival (2024)

Director – Rebecca Meltzer

Assistant Director – Oscar Simms

Conductor – Bertie Baigent

Set & Costume Designer – April Dalton

noye’s fludde

by Benjamin Britten

Pimlico Musical Foundation (2023)

Director – Oscar Simms

Conductor – James Day

Set & Costume Designer – Lucy Ruff

Lighting Designer – Dan Basnett

Assistant Director – Emily Beech

Noye – Gareth John

Mrs Noye – Felicity Buckland

Voice of God – Jacqueline Brown

in-school workshops

The Noye’s Fludde performance followed six weeks of workshops at five primary schools with participating children, during which we rewrote Britten’s traditional hymn texts based on teaching about climate change.

Denis & Katya

by Philip Venables & Ted Huffman

Fitzwilliam Auditorium (2021)

Director – Oscar Simms

Musical Directors –
Jess Hoskins / Rosie Dunn

Mezzo-Soprano –
Hannah Dienes-Williams

Baritone – Maxim Meshkvichev

The Magic flute

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Cavatina Opera (2017)

Director – Oscar Simms

Musical Director – Max Todes

Tamino – Hiroshi Amako

Pamina – Camilla Seale

Papageno – Thorvald Blough

Queen – Camilla Saba Davies

Sarastro – Thomas Bennett

Monostatos – David Woods

Speaker – Alex Bower-Brown

Three Ladies –

Rachel Ridout, Alex Beason, Gigi Casey

Armed Men – Jack Lee, Tim Kingston

Chorus and Orchestra of 80 young musicians, aged 15 to 28.

Assisting

Turn of the screw

by Benjamin Britten

Waterperry Opera Festival

Director – Rebecca Meltzer

Assistant Director – Oscar Simms

bluebeard’s castle

by Béla Bartók

Green Opera / Grimeborne (2022)

Director – Eleanor Burke

2nd Assistant Director – Oscar Simms

trouble in tahiti

by Leonard Bernstein

Grimeborne (2023)

Director – Finn Lacey

Assistant Director – Oscar Simms

the last hotel

by Donnacha Dennehy (2019)

The Fitzpatrick Hall, Cambridge

Director – Sam Tannenbaum

Assistant Director – Oscar Simms

observing

The Big Stink
English Touring Opera
dir. Valentina Ceschi (2024)

Our Street
Lewisham Creative Chorus
dir. Thomas Guthrie (2024)

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Royal Opera House
dir. Noa Naamat (2023)

Semele
Blackheath Halls
dir. Harry Fehr (2023)

Itch
Opera Holland Park
dir. Stephen Barlow (2023)

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