Mac-Ham-Lear - Summer 2023

A new ensemble comedy, with a brand-new TV competition to decide the nation's favourite Shakespeare play. A hilarious mash-up of classical text and contemporary farce. Mac-Ham-Lear toured across the UK from June - August 2023.

Writer: Michael Davies

Director: Peter Mimmack

Assistant Director: Vivi Bayliss

Choreographer: Kath Waters

Producer: Maddy Kerr for Heartbreak Productions

Dani: Kimberley Bradshaw

Laurie: Oliver Hewett

Hannah: Colleen Hedley

Max: Charlie Mackay

Navigating Margaret - March 2023

A touching new play featuring an inter-generational cast of professional and community actors. The story follows Margaret and her family through her illness with dementia, and her memories of young love. The play was developed through workshops with Worcester residents and is firmly rooted in its community.

Writer and Director: Helen Tennison

Assistant Director: Vivi Bayliss

Designer: Zahra Mansouri

Sound Designer: Matt Eaton

Lighting Designer: Dan Parry

Stage Management: Caitlin Morgan, Hannah Fenwick

Producer: Jenny Davis for Arts Uplift

Margaret: ILlona Linthwaite

Magpie: Charlotte East

Graham: Morgan Philpott

Louise: Karen Payne

Charlie: Will Husbands

Young Margaret: Eliza Thompson

Dani: Maya Waghorn

Additional characters played by members of community cast.

The Things You Do For Love - February 2023

A scenes programme featuring some of the most beloved operas in the canon, woven together with new English refrains. Performed by the 22/23 Young Artists of the National Opera Studio at WNO and RADA.

Director: Linda Kitchen

Assistant Director: Vivi Bayliss

Conductor: Wyn Davies

Don Giovanni / L'incoronazione di Poppaea - Summer 2022

Two triple-cast operas which made up the summer season at Saluzzo Opera Academy. Bold new stagings which illuminated key themes of temptation and ambition within these well-loved operas.

Don Giovanni Director: Noa Naamat

L'incoronazione di Poppaea Director: Susan Stone

Assistant Directors: Vivi Bayliss, Lara Lignitz, Marianna Metselampi, Ben Croen, Francesco Bekkema

Singers and orchestra from members of the Academy.

First Ladies - August 2017

An empowering new musical uniting "first" women from history to celebrate a new member. On the eve of the election of a new president in a prominent western nation, the party awaits her arrival.

Writers: Elizabeth Charlesworth and Nikki Racklin

Director: Gerard Jones

Choreographer: Anjali Mehra

Assistant Director: Vivi Bayliss

Assistant Musical Director: Katharine Noble

Producer: British Youth Music Theatre

All parts played by members of the company aged 15-21.

Assistant Director for Ensemble OrQuesta - 2016/17

I served as Assistant Director on a range of productions with Ensemble OrQuesta between 2016 and 2017.

Directed by Marcio da Silva: L'incoronazione di Poppaea, Hippolyte et Aricie, La Boheme.

Directed by Jenny Miller: Le Nozze di Figaro

All productions were conducted by Marcio da Silva.