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Ruth Silver

Creative Producer Stage Manager Assistant Director Musician

I am a creative producer, stage manager and music graduate based in the North East. I am passionate about increasing accessibility and inclusivity in opera and theatre, and strengthening the provision of both in the North East.

Credits

Assistant Producer, Tete a Tete, 2024.
Assistant Producer, Josey, November Club, 2023-2024.
Communications Administrator, Vache Baroque, 2023-2024.
Assistant Producer and Stage Manager, Don Giovanni/La Voix Humaine, Cumbria Opera Group, 2023.
Production/Festival Assistant, Vache Baroque Festival, 2022.
Producer and Stage Manager, Dido and Aeneas, Literary and Philharmonic Society/IcMuS, 2021-2022.
Stage Manager, Stags and Hens, Venue @ Newcastle University SU/Newcastle University Theatre Society, 2022.
Stage Manager, Creating Carmen, Pavilion Arts Centre/Buxton International Festival, 2021.
Festival Intern, Buxton International Festival, 2022.

Training

GROW Assistant Producer, November Club, 2023-2024.
Serena Fenwick Stage Management Programme, British Youth Opera, 2023.
Opera Production Mentee (mentored in opera production by James Clutton), National Student Opera Society, 2022-2023.
Arts Marketing Traineeship, The Telling, 2022.
BA Music, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University (2019-2022).

Location

Tyne and Wear

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • New technologies / digital
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Curating
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Producing
  • Prop Making
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development

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