JO DAVIES - MEMBER OF THE BOARD

Trained at Bristol University and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York.

As a director credits include: The Rape of Lucretia (RCM),  La Fanciulla Del West (Opera Holland Park), Le Toreador (Batignano Opera Festival), The Palace in The Sky (English National Opera), Bugsy Malone (West End), About Face (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House), Charlie Lavender (Southwark Playhouse) Secondhand Dreams (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) Henry VI part iii (Birmingham), Control Freaks (BAC), The Wizard of Oz (Bath Theatre Royal), Elements, Head II Head, Midnight's Children (English National Opera – Contemporary Opera Studio).
 
As an associate and staff director Jo has worked with many distinguished directors. With Adrian Noble she developed the first stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End and on Broadway. Also in the West End she worked with Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw on their award winning production of Medea, which she later took to New York. At the National Theatre Jo worked with Alan Ayckbourn, developing his play that ran consecutively in two theatres at one time – House and Garden; and with Nicholas Hytner on The Winter’s Tale.

Jo has also worked many times for The Royal Opera House, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The English National Opera, Opera North, and Bristol Old Vic.

For film Jo worked as an associate to director Phyllida Lloyd on Gloriana and as a librettist Jo wrote Jack and Jill, a short new opera commissioned by the ENO Contemporary Opera Studio and Tete a tete which went on tour throughout the uk.

Next, Jo directs the UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and A Night at The Chinese Opera, a contemporary opera by Judith Weir at the Royal Academy of Music.

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