Ruth Mariner

I am a director & writer and working within opera and interdisciplinary performance.


My work explores social justice and the interplay between the contemporary and mythical worlds through playful stylisation, magic realism, and the female gaze.


Motivated by social & political interest, I create work for the opera house stage, studio theatre, and public spaces. Since 2020, I have been expanding my practice digitally.

Credits

2022 Writer WITCH • Freya Wayley Cohen (Dir. Polly Graham), Royal Academy of Music
2022 Director Opera Scenes Royal Academy of Music
2021 Writer/Director Finish This (Film) • Omar Sharyar English National Opera

2020 Assistant Director Sweeney Todd • Sondheim (Dir. Theo Boermans)Staatsoper Hannover
2020 Dramaturg 12:42 The National Opera Studio
2020 Director The Extraordinary Adventures of You and Me • Omar Sharyar English Touring Opera
2020 Director The Big History of Little England • Philip Venables Rosehill Theatre
2020 Assistant Director The Monster in The Maze (Film) • Dove (Dir. Thomas Guthrie) Grange Festival

2019 Writer The Lion of The Sea • Alberto Colla Royal Opera House, Muscat
2019 Director The Fairy Queen •Purcell Waterperry Opera Festival
2019 Writer/Director Indus • Cameron Dodds/Laura Bowler Gestalt / Snape Maltings

2018 Director Four Stories about Welcoming • Laura Bowler Opera Holland Park
2018 Writer12:40 • Cameron Dodds National Opera Studio
2018 Director A Shoe Full of Stars • Omar Sharyar Lawrence Batley Theatre
2018 Writer/Director The Unsung Heroes of The Planet • Cameron Dodds Gestalt Arts / Eden Project

2017-18 Writer/Director Liquid History • Sarah Dacey Gestalt / Maritime Museum
2017 Assistant Director Silver Electra • Russell Hepplewhite (Dir. Tim Yealland) English Touring Opera
2017 Writer/Director* Recharged • Omar Sharyar Wigmore Hall
2017 Director Rigoletto • Verdi Clyde Opera Group

2016 Director* A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opera North
2016 Revival Director* Mighty Oaks • John Barber Royal Opera House
2016 Assistant Director*The Hogboon • Peter Maxwell Davies (Dir. Karen Gillingham) LSO/Barbican

2015 Writer Colony • Evan Kassoff Royal Opera, Linbury Studio
2015 Director Nabucco Verdi Corn Exchange, Newbury
2014 Director La Bohème • Puccini Corn Exchange, Newbury

Training

2015 — 2016 Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera Making Fellowship / GSMD Creative Entrepreneur
2014 — 2015 Guildhall School / Royal Opera House MA in Opera Making
2011 — 2012 University of Cambridge MPhil Musicology
2007 — 2010 Goldsmiths BMus Music