Isabelle Kettle

My name is Isabelle Kettle (she/her) and I am a theatre and opera director. I studied theatre directing at Columbia University under Anne Bogart, and more recently have completed two years as the Jette Parker Young Artist Stage Director at the Royal Opera House. During that time I gained a passion for working with live music and musicians, large casts and choruses, and also working with live film. I love work that feels like a hybrid of different mediums and plays with scale and form. I also care about telling stories that challenge our conventions of thinking about gender - whether that is contemporary writing or rethinking a classic.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Songspiel, ROH Mainstage, 1x livestream & 4 weeks online, 2021

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Knife of Dawn, ROH Mainstage, 1 night, 2020

DIRECTOR, Susanna, ROH Linbury Theatre, 5 nights, 2020

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, La Bohème, ROH Mainstage, 9 nights, 2020

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Otello, ROH Mainstage, 5 nights, 2019

DIRECTOR, Dido & Aeneas, Queille Festival, 1 night, 2019

CO-DIRECTOR, Pale Sister, PEN New Voices Festival, 1 night, 2018

DIRECTOR, Machinal, Lenfest Center for the Arts, 5 nights, 2017

DIRECTOR, Une Education Manquée, Arcola Theatre & Auden Theatre, 2 nights, 2017

DIRECTOR, Manar, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (NYC), 5 nights, 2017

DIRECTOR, Arden Creatures, Cockpit Theatre, 3 nights, 2015

DIRECTOR, Lear’s Daughters, Hope Theatre, 3 weeks, 2014

Training

CPH:Labs Residency, 2019
Roundabout Theatrical Teaching Institute, 4 day 'teaching artist' training, 2018
Viewpoints Training, 8 week course with Kelly Maurer, 2015
Columbia University School of the arts, MFA in Theatre Directing, 2015-2018
'From Page to the Naked Stage', 2 day workshop with Complicité, 2014