Robin Norton-Hale (born 28 March 1980) is an English writer and director for opera and theatre. She is the Artistic Director of

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, having founded the company alongside Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Ben Cooper in October 2009 and was previously Artist in Residence at Oxford Playhouse. She studied

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and was a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow (2013/14).

Career

For OperaUpClose Norton-Hale has written new English librettos and directed productions including ''La Bohème'' (

Soho Theatre The Soho Theatre is a theatre and registered charity in the Soho district of the City of Westminster, in London, England. It produces and presents new works of theatre, together with comedy and cabaret, across three performance spaces. The the ...

Cock Tavern Theatre The Cock Tavern Theatre was a pub theatre located in Kilburn, London, Kilburn in the north-west of London. The venue specialised in new works and critical revivals. Resident companies Good Night Out Presents and OperaUpClose were also based at t ...

and

King's Head Theatre The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an off-West End venue in London. It is the second oldest operating pub theatre in the UK. In 2021, Mark Ravenhill became Artistic Director and the theatre focusses on producing LGBTQ ...

), winner of the 2011

Olivier Award The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known a ...

for Best Opera,http://www.olivierawards.com/news/view/item115080/la-boheme-wins-best-new-opera-production/ and Best Off-West End Production in the 2011

Whatsonstage.com Awards The WhatsOnStage Awards (WOS Awards), formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com. The awards recognise performers and productions of British theatre with an emphasis on London's West ...

; a production of ''Carmen'' in partnerships with the End Violence Against Women Coalition (“radical… a gripping, thought-provoking achievement” WhatsOnStage); ''Mary, Queen of Scots'' in partnership with the National Trust (“superb” London Evening Standard) and in 2019, an original libretto for an opera for Early Years, created in partnership with composer Joanna Lee, based on Jill Murphy’s picture book ''Peace At Last''. These productions have been seen in venues including Bristol Old Vic, Cast Doncaster, Northcott Exeter, Snape Maltings, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough & Theatr Clwyd. Other directing credits include ''Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves'' (co-directed with Athena Stevens, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), ''Redefining Juliet'' (Barbican), ''The Little Sweep'' and ''La Traviata'' (Malmo Opera, Sweden), ''Masters Are You Mad?'' by

Glyn Maxwell Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet, playwright, novelist, librettist, and lecturer. Early life Of primarily Welsh heritage — his mother Buddug-Mair Powell (b. 1928) acted in the original stage show of Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' ...

(

Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre holds an eight week annual repertory season in Chester, United Kingdom. The productions are staged in the round, in a purpose built theatre constructed each summer in Grosvenor Park. The theatre The company was f ...

) and ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (

Southwark Playhouse Southwark Playhouse is a theatre in London, located between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube stations. History The Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice and Tom Wilson. They identified the need for a h ...

). She has written new English versions of eight operas, including ''Eugene Onegin'' and ''The Marriage of Figaro.'' Her librettos for ''La Bohème'' and ''Don Giovanni'' are published by Oberon. Her play for young children, ''The Mince Pie Mice'', was performed at the Lichfield Garrick in December 2021. Her agent is Micheline Steinberg.

References

External links

''The Guardian'' interview (Dec 2009)''CultureCritic'' interview (July 2011)''Puccini in a pub triumphs at Olivier Awards''

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