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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHIES OPERA CREATION WORKSHOP JUNE 22 — 26, 2020 OPERA CREATION WORKSHOP

The Académie du Festival d’Aix has adapted and developed new online training programs in order to continue to carry out its mission of training and accompanying young musicians in their professional development. Country borders currently pose a challenge to an artist’s mobility and so it becomes important to create new work spaces and meeting places which allow for the preservation of the vital links and intercultural dialogue at the heart of these programs. The training programs were created through a process of reflection and ongoing exchange with the artists and pedagogical experts who were initially involved in training sessions that were scheduled to take place in Aix during the 2020 edition of the Festival d’Aix. Through these newly adapted programs, the Académie du Festival d’Aix continues to defend its values which include artistic excellence, innovation, the expression of cultural diversity, and activities which promote social inclusion. MENTOR PARTICIPANTS Offered for several years to young creators from all disciplines, the Opera Creation Workshop is a place for reflection and discussion on artistic opera-related issues. WRITER ZSUZSANNA ARDÓ This workshop usually seeks to define, discuss current values of opera and the — PLAYWRIGHT, VISUAL ARTS CREATOR tasks it will assume in the future and reflects on opera creation today and on the CHRISTINA ATHINODOROU multidisciplinary aspects that it encompasses. This year, the workshop will take — COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR place entirely online over a period of five days and will encourage discussions that DAHAE BOO reflect on the sanitary crisis that we are all facing at the moment. The discussions — COMPOSER will be fueled by the interventions of the stage directors Peter Sellers and Simon TOM CREED McBurney and Professor Didier Sicard who have been invited to speak during — STAGE DIRECTOR the workshop. The workshop itself will be led by the Franco-Lebanese writer Amin PENDA DIOUF Maalouf – elected to the Académie française in 2011. – PLAYWRIGHT LOUIS GOLDFORD This workshop is supported by SACD. — COMPOSER STACY HARDY — PLAYWRIGHT MAURO HERTIG — COMPOSER GOLFAM KHAYAM — COMPOSER MICHAEL KLEINE — STAGE DIRECTOR, SCENOGRAPHER, COSTUME DESIGNER NANINE LINNING — STAGE DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER GARETH MATTEY — PLAYWRIGHT MATTHEW RICKETTS — COMPOSER CLAIRE TIPY — PLAYWRIGHT, STAGE DIRECTOR

3 MENTOR PARTICIPANT AMIN MAALOUF ZSUZSANNA ARDÓ PLAYWRIGHT, VISUAL WRITER ARTS CREATOR FRANCE / LEBANON HUNGARY

Zsuzsanna Ardó is an award-winning visual artist, curator and writer. Her work received awards and artist residencies by Arts Council England, High Arctic Expedition, ASL NY, Frankfurter Kunstverein, UNESCO, Skopje City and Museum and the Festival d’Aix. She has been invited to serve as chair and member of international juries, and curated international Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut in 1949. He studied economics and sociology and then projects for both mainstream and alternative spaces e.g. in Antarctica, the Arctic, the worked as an international reporter until the Lebanon war broke out in 1975. He settled in British and European Parliament and the European Commission. She was jury-selected to Paris in 1976 with his family and became editor in chief for the newspaper Jeune Afrique. represent the United Kingdom in UNESCO’s creative residency in 2018, with works created In 1983, he published his first book, an essay entitled The Crusades through Arab Eyes and featured in 2019 at UNESCO headquarter in Paris. resigned from his position as a journalist in 1986 to devote himself to his second book and As a writer and visual artist she works across disciplines, genres, languages and cultures. first novel, Leo the African, which received an important critical and public praise when Her visual art includes painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, film, and 3D works. it was published. Highly acclaimed books followed, until 1993 when , Her visual language investigates the crossovers between the figurative and abstract, his fourth novel, won the Goncourt Prize. He has written many other works, all set in the human and animal, natural and unnatural; it explores the ambivalent edges between Middle-East, Africa and the Mediterranean world, among which novels such as Ports of observation and imagination, memory, mystery and mythology. Her climate change Call, Balthasar’s Odyssey, or The Disoriented. He also published essays such inspired land art installations started in the High Arctic, popping up and engaging locals as : Violence and the Need to Belong, Disordered World: Setting a New wherever she goes since then. In England this work continues to take her along vulnerable Course for the Twenty-first Century, Un fauteuil sur la Seine, and opera libretti: L’Amour de coastlines and areas be it by the Irish, Celtic and the North Sea, the English and the loin and . Le Naufrage des civilisations is his latest published work. He was Bristol Channel, a lighthouse embraced by the sea or an Elizabethan Hall on glaciated granted the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2010. In June 2011, he was elected to Jurassic and Cretaceous land. The Glacier Strikes Back, her fine art print based on her th join the Académie Française. land art installations was jury-selected for the 7 International Print Biennale Shortlist at the National Museum in Guanlan, China, dedicated to the art printmaking. Her work has been published internationally e.g. Philosophy Now, The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, Logos, OUP, Macmillan, and her satirical social anthropology book about her native culture was published in three editions on three continents. Her short film, Allegro Barbaro, a triple- flashback visual poem, was screened at the India International Centre Delhi, Harvard in Boston, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. She has curated international projects on a variety of relevant themes, including climate change, slavery, feminism. Her large-scale solo exhibition about the language of film featured at the headquarter of the British Film Academy. She wrote and directed The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger, her play for the Harvard short play festival. She adapted her play as a libretto for opera, which premiered in New York, and the staged version in Chicago, featuring her art work inspired by the zeitgeist of the opera. Collaborating on creative projects with scientists and composers act as creative catalyst in her practice. Her poems, set to music by composers, are registered with BMI and performed internationally. For years she served as a voting member of Writing Chapter of the British Film Academy Awards. She is a member of ICOM.

www.ardo.org

4 5 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT CHRISTINA ATHINODOROU DAHAE BOO COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR COMPOSER CYPRUS SOUTH KOREA

Christina Athinodorou (born 1981, Paphos) is a composer increasingly rising into Born in 1988 in South Korea, Dahae Boo has a lot of experience in various countries: prominence, with a growing catalogue of symphonic, chamber and vocal works. South Korea (Seoul National University), France (Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt, She studied composition with Julian Philips and conducting with Alan Hazeldine at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris), Germany the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and later she studied composition (Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg), Japan (Tokyo privately with Philippe Leroux in Paris. She also took courses at the UNT, the University, Kunitachi Music College). During the 2016-2017 academic years, she studied Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon and Ircam. She is composition and computer music at Ircam. Her music has been performed by Ensemble based in Cyprus and works internationally, while maintaining her strong bonds with Intercontemporain, Divertimiento Ensemble, Berliner Ensemble Essenz, Prometeo both the United Kingdom and France. Quartet, Béla Quartet, Mivos Quartet and Debussy Quartet among others. In 2017, she did Her music suggests her preoccupation with musical pacing and the harmony of a residency as a composer at the Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019, movement. It is also informed by contemporary approaches to timbre, extended she get Sacem and Fondation Salabert prizes. techniques, and almost inevitably by the rich Mediterranean and Hellenic traditions, including drama, prosody and microtonality. Her compositions have been performed www.dahaeboo.net worldwide (Venice Biennale, Grafenegg Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Music Biennale Zagreb, Musikprotokoll Graz, ISCM World New Music Days) by the Tonkünstler Orchester, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra Ensemble Aleph, the Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Reconsil, Ensemble BlauerReiter and Sentieri Selvaggi to name a few. She also appears as a conductor and has collaborated with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia Finlandia, the Nederlands Symfonieorkest, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta among others. She has also directed new music with the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Southampton University Winds, the dissonArt Ensemble and the Ensemble Cyclamen. www.athinodorou.com

6 7 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT TOM CREED PENDA DIOUF STAGE DIRECTOR PLAYWRIGHT IRELAND SENEGAL

Tom Creed is a theatre and opera director based in Dublin. Penda Diouf is a theater author and has directed during 10 years four libraries in Saint-Denis Recent opera productions include Griselda and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Irish National in France. She is also co-founder, with Anthony Thibault, of the label Jeunes Textes en Opera), Owen Wingrave (Opéra national de Paris and Opera Collective Ireland), Acis and Liberté, an itinerant theater festival which promotes the authors of contemporary theater Galatea, Il segreto di Susanna and La Voix humaine (Opera Theatre Company) and world and tries to fill the gaps in terms of representation and narration. She is an associate artist premieres of Donnacha Dennehy’s The Hunger (BAM, New York), Annelies van Parys’s at the Centre dramatique national de Valence under the direction of Marc Lainé. Her play La Private View (Opera Vlaanderen, Operadagen Rotterdam, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Grand Grande Ourse is published by Quartett éditions. Her play Pistes… staged by Aristide Tarnagda Théâtre de Luxembourg and on tour) and Jürgen Simpson’s Air India [redacted] (Turning will be on tour in 2020-2021 in Germany, in France at CDN de Valence and at MC93 as part Point Ensemble, Vancouver). Other productions include Mavra and The Bear (Royal of the Festival d’Automne. It will be published on January 2021. She is also president of the Conservatoire of Scotlandas) well as Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica, Mavra and Renard association Scènes appartagées which promotes theater readings in a family context. She (Royal Irish Academy of Music). Private View was awarded the FEDORA Rolf Liebermann leads writing workshops too. Prize for Opera in 2014, Best Production at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest in 2015 and was named as one of 14 notable productions of the last three years by Music Theatre NOW in 2016. His work as a theatre director has been seen at all the major Irish venues and festivals, and on tour to the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He was nominated for Best Director at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2007. His productions of Watt by Samuel Beckett with actor Barry McGovern has been presented in Ireland at the Dublin Theatre Festival, the Galway Arts Festival and on tour, in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Barbican Centre in London, in Australia at the Perth and Melbourne International Festivals, in New Zealand at the Auckland Arts Festival, and in the USA at the Public Theatre in New York and on tour. He was Festival Director of Cork Midsummer Festival from 2011 to 2013 and was nominated for an Irish Times Irish Theatre Award in 2012. He has previously been Theatre and Dance Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival and Associate Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company. His forthcoming productions include a new production of Private View for the International Opera Academy in Ghent and world premieres of new operas by Irish composers Michael Gallen and Emma O’Halloran. www.tomcreed.org

8 9 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT LOUIS GOLDFORD STACY HARDY COMPOSER PLAYWRIGHT USA SOUTH AFRICA

Louis Goldford is a composer of acoustic and mixed music whose works often draw Stacy Hardy is a writer, an editor and a teacher. Her writing has appeared in a wide inspiration from auditory illusion, transcription and psychoanalysis. In 2019, he range of publications, including Chimurenga, Ctheory, Bengal Lights, Evergreen Review, completed his Cursus in computer music composition at Ircam, supported by the Drunken Boat, Joyland, Black Sun Lit and New Orleans Review. A collection of her Fulbright Commission in France. He was concurrently a Laureate in Music Composition short fiction, Because the Night, was published in 2015. She regularly collaborates and resident composer of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. He is currently a with Angolan composer Victor Gama on multimedia works that have been performed Dean’s Fellow at Columbia University, where he studies with Georg Friedrich Haas, in Chicago, Berlin, Lisbon, Luanda, Cape Town, amongst other places and her Zosha Di Castri, Brad Garton, George Lewis and Fred Lerdahl. experimental performance piece, Museum of Lungs, created together with Laila Recent performances include those by the Talea Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, the JACK Soliman, Neo Muyanga and Nancy Mounir, premiered in Johannesburg (2018), followed Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modelo62, the Meitar Ensemble and Rage by dates in Europe. She is currently working on a research-and-performance-based Thormbones. Upcoming engagements include new pieces for Longleash, Fonema collaborative endeavor with anthropologist Kaushik Sunder Rajan and musician Neo Consort and a residency at the Académie Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont. Muyanga exploring biographies and geographies of breath, through a focus on the colonial histories and postcolonial politics, as well as a libretto for a new opera with www.louisgoldford.com composer Bushra El-Turk and director Laila Soliman.

10 11 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT MAURO HERTIG GOLFAM KHAYAM COMPOSER COMPOSER SWITZERLAND IRAN

Mauro Hertig (born 1989, Switzerland) is a composer with an output of ensemble, Golfam Khayam was born and grew up in Iran in a family of artists in Tehran. She holds a chamber and site-specific works. His focus lies on the exposition of musical perception Master of Music from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati and memory and the fluid relationship between score and sound. He studied at ZHdK and a Master of “Interprétation specialisée” solist and composition at Geneva University in Zürich and at Kunstuniversität Graz, receiving his Bachelor with Isabel Mundry in Switzerland. She has been winner of numerous prizes which includes International and Master of Arts in Composition with Beat Furrer and Klaus Lang. Further studies Rostrum of Composer in category of windows on the world. include courses and masterclasses with Georges Aperghis, Helmut Lachenmann, Elliott She has evolved into an international career as a composer and improviser. So far, she Sharp, Felix Profos and Peter Ablinger. Works have been commissioned by Ensemble has signed and published with ECM Doberman-Yppan, Hermes records. Her music Recherche, Collegium Novum Zürich, Österreichischer Rundfunk ORF, Royaumont is featured in Elbphilharmonie, Metropolitan Museum, NPR “songs we love”, Danish Foundation, Impuls Verein Graz, Soyuz21 Ensemble, Duo Klexs, Festival für Neue Musik Cultural Radio, BBC3 . Her recent commissions include Loadbang, Stephan Schmidt, Rümlingen, Open Music, Platypus Ensemble Vienna among others. In 2016, he has Ivan Podyomov (principle Oboist of Concertgebouw), the Opéra de-ci-de-là residency in been selected as Promising Young Composer by the European-wide Ulysses Network/ Aix-en-Provence. IRCAM, which resulted in a journey of international residencies from 2017 to 2020. She is currently a lecturer in Tehran Art University. More recently, he was composer-in-residence at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) Zürich and at 180° Festival for Innovative Art in Sofia. His site- www.golfamkhayam.com specific work Liquid Contra for six speakers was displayed at London Design Festival 2018. 2018-19 has seen a portrait concert by the Austrian National Broadcast ORF and Jeunesse Vienna, as well as the premiere of the landscape opera Die Perfekte Passivität for the Festival für Neue Musik Rümlingen in Basel. For his choir work The Great Mirror, he has been chosen as laureate of the Voix Nouvelles Academy by the Royaumont Foundation – leading to the commission of a new work for Florentin Ginot (Musikfabrik Köln), to be premiered in September 2020 at Festival Royaumont. He lives in New York and Vienna. www.maurohertig.com

12 13 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT MICHAEL KLEINE NANINE LINNING STAGE DIRECTOR, SCENOGRAPHER, STAGE DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER COSTUME DESIGNER THE NETHERLANDS GERMANY

Michael Kleine is a music theater director, stage designer, performance and visual artist. Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning was born in 1977. Since the beginning of her He received his Master’s Degree in Music Theater Directing at the Hochschule für Musik career she received numerous awards and recognition for her multidisciplinary und Theater in Hamburg. projects crossing over into the fields of design, video, visual arts and fashion. In 2000 His interdisciplinary artistic practice comprises music theatre productions, stage and she initiated a six-year collaboration with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and became costumes designs, art objects, performances, scenarios and exhibition architectures. Europe youngest choreographer in residency. Then she was successively the Artistic His works are situated in theatre, opera and the contemporary or classical music Director for danse at the Theater Osnabrück (2009-2012), the Theater Heidelberg scene as well as in the context of fine art. In his work that originates in various (2012-2018) and the Festspiele Ludwigshafen (2018-2019). She created and produced genres and collaborations, he often relates subjects from European art and cultural six productions with her own Dance Company Nanine Linning: Bacon (2006) from history to contemporary display formats, emphasizing a discourse about the social the life and work of the painter Francis Bacon ; Cry Love (2007), a multimedia implications of presentation formats. In his solo exhibitions and performances, he performance of dance and video installation premiering in the Holland Festival ; creates collective spaces of intense experience through turning attention to the art Dolby, a cross-over between dance and rock concert presented at the Julidans work/the object, the sound, the architecture, the social situation and the perception festival ; Endless Song of Silence, a dance and video production in collaboration with conditions on an equal level. Two of his most frequent artistic partners are the Iris van Herpen set to Gorecki Symphony No. 3 and followed by the performance French director Aliénor Dauchez with whom he founded the music theatre company art installation Endless Song of Silence Extended; Requiem (2012) for 90 dancers, LA CAGE and the Swiss harpsichord player Johannes Keller who is artistic director musicians, choir singers and vocal soloists set to Fauré’s Requiem ; Double Helix of the research project Studio31 in Basel. Among others his works were shown in (2019), an installation based performance with 16 dancers in collaboration with the following institutions: Volksbühne Berlin, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Ruhrtriennale artist Bart Hess. Her other creations include among other : Voice Over (2012) with Bochum, Theater Basel CH, Biennale Arte di Venezia, Schinkelpavillon Berlin, composer Michiel Jansen, Synthetic Twin (2012) and Zero (2013) with haute couture Kampnagel Hamburg, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Leipzig, designer Iris van Herpen, Hieronymus B. (2015) after the life and work of Dutch painter Hamburgische Staatsoper, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde Berlin, Sammlung Hieronymus Bosch, Silver (2015) in collaboration with high-tech material designer Klosterfelde Hamburg, Gare du Nord Basel, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, Opéra de Bart Hess, The Black Painting (2015) with costumes inspired by Goya paintings, Khôra Rouen, Opéra de Reims, Radialsystem Berlin. (2016) with food artist Remco Vellinga, Dusk (2017) in collaboration with the Russian fashion designer Irina Shaposnikova as well as Revolt (2019) commissioned by the www.michaelkleine.com Stuttgart Ballet and the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar to celebrate the Bauhaus centennial. This past decade she also staged: Madama Butterfly (2010) by Puccini and Echnaton (2014) by Philip Glass at Theater Heidelberg and did the choreography of L’Orfeo (2019) by Monteverdi for the Dutch company Reisopera. She will make her debut in the United States next season with a commission from Boston Ballet. Her shows Bacon and Double Helix will be presented during the next Diagilev Festival in Perm. She will also create a mise-en-espace for the Nederlands Kamerkoor.

www.naninelinning.nl

14 15 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT GARETH MATTEY MATTHEW RICKETTS PLAYWRIGHT COMPOSER UNITED KINGDOM CANADA

Gareth Mattey is a writer, director, dramaturge and filmmaker from the United Kingdom, Matthew Ricketts (born 1986, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer currently based between London and the North West. Their work focuses on exploring queer based in New York City. He holds degrees in Music Composition and Theory from McGill stories and queer storytelling in all kinds of music-theatre, from musicals to songs University’s Schulich School of Music (B.Mus. 2009) and Columbia University (DMA 2017). to operas. They have also increasingly been exploring a multi-media multi-modal His principal mentors include Brian Cherney, John Rea, Chris Paul Harman, George Lewis sensibility, exploring how integrating different technologies into live dramatic worlds, and Fred Lerdahl. He is currently a core lecturer at Columbia University. His music moves and how blurring between genres and forms can help in building a new queer vision of from extremes of presence and absence, from clamor to quietude, at once reticent and live performance and music. They studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before pursuing flamboyant. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2020 Gaudeamus Prize nominee. a further research MPhil on the relationship of opera and film at the university. They He is the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2020 also completed an MA in Opera Making and Writing with the Guildhall School of Music Charles Ives Fellowship), Civitella Ranieri (2020), the MacDowell Colony (2019), the and Drama in association with the Royal Opera House, writing the chamber opera Reel Tanglewood Music Center (2018 Elliott Carter Memorial Fellowship) and the Aspen Music Woman with Pedro Lima, subsequently performed in 2018. Festival (2017), in addition to the 2016 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Prize, the 2016 Jacob As a writer and librettist, their work, since graduating from Guidlhall, has been developed Druckman Prize (Aspen Music Festival), the 2016 Mivos/Kanter Prize, the 2015 Salvatore and performed across the United Kingdom and internationally, with the support of Martirano Memorial Composition Award, a 2013 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer organisations like enoa and Theatre Nohgaku. Major projects as writer have included Award and eight prizes in the SOCAN Foundation’s Awards for Young Composers. their improvising chamber opera Belladonna commissioned and performed by FAWN His works have been performed internationally by JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Flux Chamber Creative in Toronto, the documentary opera Bermondsey, 1983 (developed with Quartet, the Fromm Players, Quatuor Bozzini, the Chiara String Quartet; vocalists Robert Reid Allan on residencies with Snape Maltings and LOD muziektheater in Ghent, Margot Rood, Ellen Wieser, Tony Arnold, Sharon Harms and Ekmeles; Yarn/Wire, Nouvel Belgium), the cantata Talkin(g) (A)bout My Generation (written with Pedro Lima for Casa da Ensemble Moderne (NEM), Wet Ink, TAK, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Stony Música in Porto, Portugal) and A Father Is Looking for His Daughter (written with Alex Mills Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Ensemble Paramirabo, Argento Ensemble, Talea and staged as part of rough-for-opera at the Cockpit Theatre). They continue to prioritize Ensemble, Jean-Willy Kunz, Sara Laimon and Julia Den Boer, the Aspen Philharmonic new spaces and new narratives in contemporary music and in 2020 they are developing Orchestra (Robert Spano, cond.), Esprit Orchestra (Alex Pauk, cond.), the Minnesota further music-theatre collaborations with Robert Reid Allan, Alex Mills, Crispin Lord, Orchestra (Osmo Vänskä, cond.) and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Kent Nagano, Pedro Lima and more. Furthermore, they now teach as part of the Opera Making and cond.). He was composer-collaborator-in-residency at East Carolina University from Writing MA at Guildhall. As a director, they have directed productions of work by Britten, 2016-2018. In 2018, his multilingual opera Chaakapesh: The Trickster’s Quest (written in Tavener, Dove, Weir, Stockhausen and more. Most recently, they have directed new work collaboration with renowned Cree playwright Tomson Highway) opened the Montreal at the Tête-à-Tête Festival, Pélleas et Mélisande for Opera on the Move, a new pastiche Symphony’s 84th season to great critical acclaim and went on to tour Indigenous Mozart singspiel with Classical Remix and the Opera Scenes for Royal Academy Opera. communities throughout Québec. They were nominated for the Prize for Collaboration at the Scottish Awards for New Active as a writer as well as a composer, he has published articles, reviews, poetry and Music 2019 for directing Robert Reid Allan’s Anthems for Queer Youth. They have also led libretti, and has worked closely with authors and poets Lauren J. Rogener, Paul Legault, workshops for Hampstead Garden Opera with The Latymer School, as well as Aldeburgh Christian Schlegel, Klara du Plessis and Tomson Highway on multiple collaborative Young Musicians on introductions to opera directing. As a filmmaker, they have written projects. Other collaborative endeavors include recent works for dancer-choreographers and directed their first short Quartet with Random Acts North (working closely with Brendan Drake and Jennifer Nichols. SHOAL, a Manchester based contemporary music ensemble) and directing and editing a 360-degree short operatic video on a fragment of La Bohème while attending a lab on www.matthewricketts.com the relationship of opera and VR at the Banff Centre in Canada. They teach filmmaking to undergraduate students at the Guildhall and they are currently writing and developing a short operatic film with composer Ergo Phizmiz, as well as their first feature film with director Nicholas Hampson.

16 17 CRÉDITS PHOTOS PARTICIPANT Amin Maalouf © Hannah Assouline Tom Creed © Ste Murray CLAIRE TIPY Mauro Hertig © Emile Kirsch Nanine Linning © John van Helvert PLAYWRIGHT, STAGE DIRECTOR Matthew Ricketts © Michael Kuhn FRANCE / BURKINA FASO Création graphique – Irma Boom Exécution graphique – Laurie Wagner

Claire Tipy is a writer, director and actress, and the cofounder of RPS Theatre company. After studying political sciences and theatre in Lyon and London, she moved to Burkina Faso in 2016 to work artistically on under-represented stories and narratives. She has collaborated with several burkinabe artists and has written and directed Where do you think I was born? and Dix Lions / Buugness Piiga / Ten Lions with RPS Theatre. Her last play Des pintades et des manguiers is a Jeunes textes en liberté 2020 laureate. Her writing, fun and accessible, is based on real testimonies and focuses on the impact of contemporary issues on the everyday life of individuals. She is currently working with Sidiki Yougbare on theatre writing in national African languages. www.rpstheatre.com

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