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Lucy Bailey

Nell Catchpole

Lucy Bailey

Lucy Bailey studied English at Oxford University where she directed the world premiere of Lessness by Samuel Beckett in consultation with the author. She then worked as an assistant director at the Royal National Theatre, Glyndebourne Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre productions she has directed include Glass Eels by Nell Leyshon for Hampstead Theatre Don't Look Now, a new stage adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's short story, for Sheffield Crucible Theatre and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Tonight at Eight Thirty, six one act plays by Noel Coward for Chichester Festival; Titus Andronicus for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; Comfort Me With Apples by Nell Leyshon for Hampstead Theatre, London; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night for Manchester’s Royal Exchange; The Night Season by Rebecca Lenkiewitz for the National Theatre; new stage adaptation of The Postman Always Ringss Twice for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds and London’s West End starring Val Kilmer;, the musical Cheryoumushki 1958 at the Lyric Hammersmith;; Play/Act Without Words II/Come & Go at the International Beckett Festival and Gate Theatre, Dublin. Devised pieces include: Gudrun Fier Sang performed in a dry dock in Copenhagen, city of culture 1996; Beulah Land developed at the National Theatre Studio and performed at the ICA Theatre, London; Long Lankyn, RSC Festival, The Other Place Stratford.

In 1999 Lucy adapted and directed the first British stage version of Tennessee Williams’ screen play Baby Doll, which opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, transferred to the National Theatre and then to the Albery Theatre in the West End.

Opera and music theatre pieces she has directed include Jenufa, English National Opera; Madame Butterfly, Vancouver Opera; Teorema by Georgio Battistelli, Florence Maggio Musicale, Munich Bienale, Queen Elizabeth Hall; Noyes Fludde, Mary of Egypt by John Tavener, Triptych by Alexander Goerhr, Aldeburgh Festival; Let Us Begin Again by John Tavener, Norwich Festival; Arms for the Maid by Luke Stoneham, Four Figures with Harlequin by Errollyn Wallen, Royal Opera House; Mitridate, Il Barbiere di Seviglia, Wexford Opera Festival; The Threepenny Opera, Scottish Opera, Montiverdi’s Il Combattiamento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Berio’s Recital 1 by invitation of Harrison Birtwistle for his South Bank Festival.

Future productions include The Lady from the Sea, Birmingham Repertory Company; new adaptation of Peter Pan for Kensington Gardens; Timon of Athens, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.

Nell Catchpole

Nell studied violin at the Guildhall School and at the Britten-Pears School with the Amadeus, Alban Berg and Borodin Quartets. She studied Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. Since then, her work then has covered many genres, including long-term collaborations with bands from Palestine and Madagascar, in the string quartet with Nigel Kennedy on his Hendrix project, and as a member of rock band, The Lea Shores. She is a tutor at the Guildhall School where she teaches improvisation on the Undergraduate and Masters courses.

Nell has worked with producer Brian Eno over several years, arranging/recording strings on his solo albums and with artists he has produced. Having featured on Eno's album with Peter Schwalm, 'Drawn From Life', she performed internationally in their live band, including the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.

Recent/forthcoming work includes: UK tour with the Jocelyn Pook Ensemble; performances with the Continuum Ensemble in Little Red Riding Hood, directed by Annabel Arden at the Almeida Opera in London; performance with Peter Schwalm at the Punkt Festival in Norway; Music/Sound Design for Comfort Me With Apples and Glass Eels, both by Nell Leyshon, at Hampstead Theatre and for Don't Look Now, Sheffield Lyceum/Lyric, Hammersmith all directed by Lucy Bailey; Co-Director, Edge of Life, performance installation at Bath International Festival with Guildhall School and Royal College of Art; Musical Director and String Arrangements for In Your Rooms, a new piece by choreographer/composer, Hofesh Schechter, at The Place/QEH/Sadlers Wells; gigs with The Lea Shores at the Royal Albert Hall supporting Kasabian and at the Wireless, Glastonbury and Latitude Festivals.