Jim Manganello

I work in theatre, dance and opera as a director, dramaturg, and movement director. My primary interests are in collaborative creation, contemporary plays, and radical productions of classic texts. I co-direct the Glasgow-based dance-theatre Shotput, www.shotput.org. Pronouns: he/him.

Credits

DIRECTOR / Fuente Ovejuna, Central School of Speech & Drama, 1 week 2023
DIRECTOR / Totentanz, Shotput, 1 week, 2021 + 4 weeks tour, 2023
DIRECTOR / Ferguson and Barton, Shotput, 2 weeks, 2019 + 4 weeks tour, 2022
DIRECTOR / The Judge, Fratellanza, 1 week, 2018
DIRECTOR / Lucia di Lammermoor, Fulham Opera, 3 weeks, 2017
DIRECTOR / Opera Highlights, Scottish Opera, 5 weeks, 2016
DIRECTOR / String Up the Moon, Fratellanza, 3 weeks, 2013
DIRECTOR / The Mute Quire, Fratellanza, 3 weeks 2012-14
DIRECTOR / War and Peace, Viaduct Theatre (Chicago), 2 weeks, 2011
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / London Road, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama / 1 week, 2022
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Brundibar, Opera North / 2 weeks, 2022
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Christmas Dinner, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh / 4 weeks, 2021
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Assassins, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 1 week, 2019
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Lost at Sea, Perth Theatre + tour, 4 weeks, 2019
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Aladdin, Perth Theatre, 4 weeks, 2017
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Der Freischutz, Blackheath Community Opera, 1 week, 2017
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / L'elisir d'amore, Scottish Opera, 5 weeks, 2016
DRAMATURG / Unbroken, Nikki Rummer, London Mime Fest + tour, 2021-22
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Creditors (dir. Stewart Laing), Royal Lyceum Theatre, 3 weeks, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Bluebeard's Castle & The 8th Door (dir. Matthew Lenton), Scottish Opera and Vanishing Point, 2 weeks, 2017
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Ariodante (dir. Harry Fehr), Scottish Opera, 2 weeks, 2016
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Rapunzel (dir. Lu Kemp), Citizens Theatre, 4 weeks, 2015

Training

National Theatre Directors' Course, 2018
MFA in Theatre Directing, Birkbeck College, 2014-16
Ecole Lassaad, Brussels, 2010-12