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Stage director, teacher and researcher, specialising in historical acting and gesture. Professor of Historical Stagecraft at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
New College, Oxford, OX1 3BN, United Kingdom
Director, passed away January 2021
Unit 1, 1 Eastfields Avenue, London, SW18 1FQ, United Kingdom
Opera producer, project manager, educator and community music maker specialising in new music. Produced UK premiere of ‘The Juniper Tree’, Philip Glass (March 2017) a collaboration between professionals, school children and a community chorus. Produced sold-out ‘Dido and Aeneas’ for Music and Drama Festival Richmond-upon-Thames with professionals, school children and ballerinas from Moscow Academy.
Further collaborations with composers including Tansy Davies, Mark Anthony Turnage, Paul Patterson, Cecilia McDowall, Judith Weir and Nigel Osborne.
Ambitious, dedicated and innovative approach.
James Darrah is a director and designer of theater, music, opera, and video and his collaborative focus through varied mediums has quickly led him to be recognized as "the newest discovery... a gifted young American director" (Chicago Tribune) who "injects real drama" (New York Times) into productions that become "once-in-a-lifetime experiences" (Opera News). He leads the new Los Angeles-based production company, chromatic; a collective of interdisciplinary artists who collaborate to create aesthetic theatrical events across blurring mediums which prioritize narrative over convention.
