Biba Lille-West

I love small productions with a big reach, especially opera, new and unusual plays, and all works about art. With masses of additional experience running a touring commercial business for over a decade I can take on anything with anyone and tour it everywhere. So what if my profile photo is 37 years old - that’s the year I started in theatre!

Credits

IN A HOLE, Royal Academy of Arts; THIS IS A CHAIR White Bear Theatre; VIENNA The Bush Hall; DELPHI Port Eliot Festival; TOUCHY Messe Berlin; ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE Old Diorama; JC IS COMING Tristan Bates Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre; IN THE SHADOWS Kings Head, Upstairs at the Gatehouse; GOLDDIGGERS OF 1991 Volkskammer Bremen; SHOOTIN’ OFF, MR MANILOW? Tristan Bates Theatre, White Bear Theatre; THE TOILET OF VENUS Bridge Lane, Etcetera Theatre, Chelsea Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Fiera di Bologna; JUST DESSERTS - UK tour plus Paris and Bologna venues, ITV, Edinburgh Fringe; THE MAIDS arts venues in Bologna and Rimini, RAI Uno TV; I WENT TO NIGHT SCHOOL/I LOVE…ROSES, UK arts venues, arts venues in Paris with Love Ranch/Merrie England, Fiera di Bologna, RAI Uno TV; REPRO CAKE - A Fete Worse than Death (Shoreditch 1994) and Pyjama Party (ITV); PO CAKE Pyjama Party (ITV)

As Co-Director:

OSMOSIS Brighton Festival, ICA London; BULLY FOR YOU UK schools TIE tour; FROM HIGH PLACES/TOUCH Lilian Baylis Theatre, The Place, Purcell Room

As Assistant Director:

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO South Bank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall, FALSTAFF (Salieri) Theatre Royal Bath, L’INFEDELTA DELUSA Bridgnorth English Haydn Festival, SWALLOW ME WHOLE, New York Fringe Festival - Charas/El Bohio/Carol Watson Theaters


As director of performance unit appearing within another event:

SECRET CINEMA :THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - Mos Eisley Cantina backrubbers and SECRET CINEMA: MOULIN ROUGE - Montmartre massage parlour, both in London


As Choreographer:

ANGEL at the Hippodrome London

Training

MA Theatre Directing, Middlesex University (grad. 2004)
Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, New York City (2000)
ALRA 3-year acting, plus decades of other actor training (1980s to 2000s)
London Contemporary Dance School’s Evening School and its Performance Group (1987 - 1995)
Interior Design Institute - Design Diploma (2021 - 2022)