Anna Pool
Director Composer Performer SongwriterDirector, producer and writer. (she/her)
Specialisms in creating new music theatre (musicals/opera/cabaret/cross-arts).
Inspired by history, myth, faith and magic in the everyday.
Credits
Postponed due to Covid-19:DIRECTOR, Aics & Galatea, Opera North, 3 weeks 2020
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, A Little Night Music, Leeds Playhouse, 6 weeks, 2020
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Don Carlo, The Royal Opera House, 4 weeks, 2020
DIRECTOR, Noye's Fludde, Bury St Edmund's Cathedral, 1 week 2020
CREDITS INCLUDE:
DIRECTOR, Reflections for Holocaust Memorial Day, Opera North,1 week, 2020
DIRECTOR, These Wondering Stones, Barbican, 1 week, 2019
DIRECTOR, SCRAWW, Hall for Cornwall, 3 weeks, 2018
DIRECTOR, Bastien und Bastienne, Pop Up Opera UK, 2 months, 2018
DIRECTOR, Trident Moon, Finborough Theatre, 4 weeks, 2016
DIRECTOR, Dust Child, English Touring Opera, 2 months, 2016
DIRECTOR, Boys of Paradise, Tete a Tete, 2 weeks, 2016
Other assistant director roles include Barbican, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Music Theatre Wales & Welsh National Opera.
Training
Studied BMus Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.Location
LondonExperience
2-5 years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Literature
- Live art
- Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
- Music
- New technologies / digital
- Opera
- Theatre / Live perfomance
What I do
- Dramaturgy
- Facilitating
- Music - Can learn by ear
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Plays Instruments
- Music - Singing
- Music Composition
- Outdoor performance
- Performance Art
- Performing
- Physical Theatre / Mime
- Producing
- Puppetry
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Street Theatre
- Verbatim theatre
- Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
- Working with learning disabled adults / children
- Working with young people
- Working within a Community / with community participants
- Workshopping & Development
- Writing
Additional Languages
Intermediate German
