Emma Muir-Smith

Director Writer

She/Her.

I am a theatre/opera director and writer with a background as a professional opera singer.

My work usually incorporates several disciplines including music and physical theatre, with clarity of storytelling/text and emotional nuance always at the core of my directing practice.

Credits

Writer/Director Performance of a Lifetime Vaccination Campaign TVC, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2021, aired on social media and SBS Australia.
Director Atelier Opera Program, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music/Victorian Opera 2021
Writer/Director Friends of Salamanca (Schubert), for Victorian Opera, November 2021
Writer/Director Peter and the Wolf with puppets, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cond. Nicholas Bochner, Hamer Hall May 2021
Librettist Listen to my Story, Co-Opera Adelaide Tour with composer Josh van Konkelenberg 2021
Librettist The Selfish Giant, adapted from Oscar Wilde, comp. Simon Bruckard, Victorian Opera, 2019
Assistant Director/Tour Director Missing, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Tour 2019, Dir. Karen Gillingham, cond. Holly Matheson
Playwright Alice Through the Opera Glass, educational opera for children, conceptualised, commissioned and produced by Victorian Opera, perf. Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, 2019
Director Shakespeare’s The Tempest, RADA, 2018
Writer/Director The Top of the Hill, RADA 2019
Dramaturg Veneers, by Charles Mayo III, new play development, 2019
Writer/Director Surrogacy, RADA 2019
Director Cool Air (staged reading) by Ron Sandahl, Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 2019
Writer/Director Terra Nullius, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, RADA, 2018

Training

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London – MA Text and Performance (Directing/Writing)
Victorian Opera Young Artist (mezzo) / MMus Opera Performance, VCA University of Melbourne
VCA University of Melbourne/RNCM – BMus Vocal Performance, (Hons Musicology)
Extensive language and phonology training in French, German, Italian
Viewpoints Physical Theatre
Second City Improvisation

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary

What I do

  • Dramaturgy
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Sound Design
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French (A Level), Basic Italian/German, French/Italian/German Pronunciation and Phonetics

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