Leah Hausman

 

My work as a director, movement director and choreographer has recently been seen in a wide variety of opera houses and theatres on both sides of the Atlantic.  I trained in dance and drama in New York City and went on to complete my studies at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.  I have collaborated with a wide range of directors including David Mcvicar, Annabel Arden, Lucy Bailey, Neil Bartlett, Moshe Leiser + Patrice Caurier.

 

As a movement director and associate director my opera work includes:

 

·           Royal Opera House:        Aida

                                                         Le Nozze di Figaro (and Valencia),

                                                          Il Turco in Italia

                                                          Elektra,

                                                          Die Zauberflöte,

                                                          Rigolleto,

·           Glyndebourne:                    L’Elisir D’Amor (and Houston),

                                                          The Miserly

                                                          Knight and Gianni Schicchi,

                                                          La Bohème

                                

·           English National Opera:          La Clemenza di Tito

                                                                 Gianni Schicchi

                                                                 Jenufa

                                                                 Ariadne Auf Naxos,

·           Aldeburgh Festival:                  Rake’s Progress

·           Scottish Opera:                         Don Giovanni

                                                                 Madama Butterfly

·           Opera North:                              Rigoletto

                                                                 La Traviata

                                                                 Don Giovanni

·           Channel 4 TV:                           Operatunity

            Lyric Opera, Chicago:              Il Trovatore

                                                                 (and The Metropolitan Opera

                                                                and San Francisco)

                                                                Billy Budd

·           Copenhagen                            La Clemenza di Tito

                                                                Il Turco In Italia 

·           Geneva:                                     Lohengrin

·           Strasbourg:                              Cose fan tutte (and Oviedo)

·           Turin:                                         Carmen

·           Nantes/Angers:                       Simon Boccanegra

·           Brussels, La Monnaie:          A Midsummer Night’s Dream,,

                                                               Don Giovanni

·           Cagliari:                                    Aida

 

Movement and choreography in theatre includes

 

·         Royal Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet,

                                                                   Twelfth Night,

                                                                   Pedro the Magnificent

                                                                   (+ West End)

                                                                    As You Like It,

                                                                    The Prince of Homburg

·           Chichester Festival:                    Tonight at 8.30

·           Sheffield Crucible:                      As You Like It

                                                                   The Clean House

·           West End + Australia:                Bronte,

                                                                   After Mrs Rochester

·           National Theatre:                        The Game of Love and Chance

·           Goodman Theatre, Chicago:   Twelfth Night

·           Salisbury Playhouse:                An Ideal Husband

·           Theatre de Complicité:             The Lamentations of Thel,

                                                                  The Phantom Violin

·           Manchester Royal Exchange: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

·           Channel 4 TV:                            Howard Goodall's Great Dates

 

As a revival director my most recent opera work has been Lohengrin (Houston) Le Nozze di Figaro (ROH/Valencia); Don Giovanni (San Francisco); La Clemenza di Tito(Copenhagen); Salome (English National Opera revival); La Bohème (Glyndebourne on Tour revival); Rigoletto (Royal Opera House revival); Madama Butterfly (Scottish Opera revivals) and Der Zwerg (Turin revival);

 

As opera director:  La Navarraise and Oedipus Rex (Palace Opera); Otello and La Traviata (Minnesota Opera); La Cenerentola (English Touring Opera); Four Saints in Three Acts (Spitalfields Opera); Pierrot Lunaire and Berio's a Ronne (ENO Works); 

 

Theatre work directed includes: Lady into Fox and The Little Match Girl (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Judgement in Stone, Night After Night and Sarrasine, co directed with Neil Bartlett for The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre, The Tramway, Glasgow; The Crucible, Sheffield; The West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Nottingham Playhouse and The Lyric Hammersmith.

           

I was the movement/drama tutor for The Knack, a course run by the ENO Baylis Programme: I have taught and directed numerous projects for them and have been a guest tutor at The Guildhall School of Music, The Royal Academy of Music and the Guildford School of Acting.

 

Future plans include:  La Clenza di Tito Aix en Provence and Les Troyens Royal Opera House; many revivals worldwide.