Rhiannon Newman Brown designer Opera set and costumes designs include Tamerlano, Così fan tutte and Eugene Onegin (Opera By Definition), On Off, When I am Old (Glyndebourne Youth Opera), Firebird (ROH Education Main Stage), Still Life at the Penguin Café, Turtle Opera (ROH Education Linbury Studio), Songs of the Marshes (ROH Thurrock), Heart in a Box (Garsington Opera Education), ‘Write an Opera’ Course Leader (ROH Education). Theatre set and costumes designs include The River Line (Jermyn Street Theatre), Fewer Emergencies, City of Lost Angels (The Print Room), James and The Giant Peach (Nuffield Theatre), Judgment at Nuremberg, To Kill A Mocking Bird (Tricycle Theatre).
Katherine Wilde, assistant director Katherine Wilde studied music at Christ Church, Oxford University. In 2010 she became one of Contact Theatre’s ‘Future Fires’ and secured funding to establish the community opera project SOAP (Salford Opera Action Performance). She is also Artistic Co-Director of the music theatre collective Re:Sound.
“I think 80 year old Sheila painting umpteen chairs orange with a paint brush in one hand and a walking stick in the other, pretty much sums up how brilliant the Road Rage project has been!”
Katherine’s production credits include: Director/ Designer Battles Within and Without (Re:Sound), Assistant Director The Magic Flute (Garsington Opera Studio Programme at West Green House), Director/ Designer The Mask Behind the Face (Re:Sound), Director/ Designer Emily, Mrs. Lazarus (Re:Sound), Assistant Director/ Stage Manager Beached (Opera North), Designer The Game of Love and Chance (RNCM), Assistant Director Hera’s List (International Anthony Burgess Foundation), and Designer Cigarettes and Chocolate (RNCM).
Chris Vaughan lighting designer Since graduating in Technical Theatre from West Cheshire College of Performing Arts, Chris Vaughan has travelled the world working on West End and International Productions.
“It has been very exciting to be part of a production that reflects so much of the community and that gives its cast such fantastic and varied characters to perform. It has been a pleasure to work with and to get to know the cast over these past few months and I cannot wait to see it on the Garsington Opera Pavilion stage.”
West End productions include Jailhouse Rock The Musical (Piccadilly Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre), Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), RSC Season at The Roundhouse London, The Bodyguard Musical (Adelphi Theatre). Opera productions include The Magic Flute (Garsington Opera), Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera). Touring productions include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (National Tour), Hairspray (UK Tour), Avenue Q (UK Tour), Dirty Dancing (National Tour). Other credits include Cloud 9 (Sevenoaks Playhouse – LD), CATS (Germany Tour – ALD), 711 (Sevenoaks Playhouse – LD), Aladdin (The O2 Arena Theatre – Programmer), CATS (UK Tour 2013 – ALD & Programmer), Let It Be (Monte Carlo 2013 – Re-Light & Programmer). Touring Re-Lights include CATS (UK & Portugal Tour), West Side Story (UK Tour), The Sound of Music (National Tour), Mamma Mia! (International Tour). His career highlight so far has been working on the London 2012 Olympic Games. “Garsington Opera’s production of Road Rage is a very exciting new project. Not only is it being brought together by experienced people but it is also an opportunity for local people to be involved in a professional production here at Wormsley.”
Wyn Hyland repetiteur Wyn hails from Cardigan, Wales and was educated at Chetham’s Music School, Wadham College, Oxford and the RCM. Credits include recitals in Asia, Bolivia, Uganda, Australia and New Zealand, concertos at The Royal Festival Hall, St. David’s Hall and BBC Maida Vale and Musical Director on the European tours of Cabaret and Guys and Dolls. Wyn has just been working as a keyboard player and associate conductor on the West End with Chicago. He has performed on Woman’s Hour, worked with WNO, appeared on Last Choir Standing with the winning choir Only Men Aloud and been Assistant Musical Director on The Music Man at Chichester. “I have thoroughly enjoyed working on this ambitiously wonderful project. I have been accompanying and taking part in the education programme since Garsington Opera’s move to Wormsley and am overjoyed how far we have come in these few years. It’s exciting to see familiar faces from the early workshops performing here with such enthusiasm and panache, as well as plenty of new faces of all ages giving so much to the performance. I’m so eager to see the final product!”
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