Ben Ormerod

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CURRENT PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE:

DIMETOS – Donmar Warehouse, director Douglas Hodge

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM & THE MERCHANT OF VENICE - A Propeller Production by The Watermill, directed by Edward Hall

ZORRO! – West End following its UK tour, director Chris Renshaw
CINDERELLA – Gothenborg, choreographer Didy Veldman
A new ballet for Cedarlake Dance Company, USA - choreographer Didy Veldman

 

MOST RECENT THEATRE INCLUDES

in the West End and London: LEGAL FICTIONS (West End & Bath Theatre Royal production on UK tour, Christopher Morahan) ; SWEENEY TODD (Royal Festival Hall, semi-staged starring Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman, David Freeman); SEE HOW THEY RUN (Act tour/Duchess, Doug Hodge); CALICO (Sonia Friedman/Duke of Yorks, Ed Hall); DICK WHITTINGTON by Mark Ravenhill (Barbican, Ed Hall); THE OLD COUNTRY (ETT tour/Trafalgar Studios, Stephen Unwin); THE BEST OF FRIENDS (Hampstead/Duncan Weldon UK tour, James Roose Evans); A NIGHT AT THE DOGS (Soho Theatre,Abigail Morris).
for the Royal Shakespeare Company: MACBETH (Conall Morrison); HOUSE OF DESIRES (Nancy Meckler) and PEDRO DE URDEMALAS (Mike Alfreds) in the West End having previously played in their Spanish Golden Age season in the Swan Theatre along with THE DOG IN THE MANGER (Lawrence Boswell) and TAMAR’S REVENGE (Simon Usher); TRADE (RSC New Work Festival, Stratford, Sascha Wares); HEAD/CASE (Swan Theatre Stratford, Soho Theatre & Coventry Belgrade, Caroline Hunt);
for Bristol Old Vic: GHOSTS and THE SEAGULL both directed by Robert Bowman
for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin: BIG HOUSE and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
(both Conall Morrison)
for Ed Hall’s Propeller Company: TAMING OF THE SHREW and TWELFTH NIGHT (Watermill Theatre, tour & Old Vic , with Mark Howland); THE WINTER’S TALE (Watermill Theatre and UK & USA tour); ROSE RAGE (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Duke Theatre New York, West End and Watermill Theatre, TMA Award Best Touring Production); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Brooklyn Academy, USA & West End, UK tour, Watermill Theatre - winner TMA Award for Best Touring Production).
and

THE DRESSER – Watford Palace Theatre, director Di Trevis

FALSTAFF – Scottish Opera, director Dominic Hill

THE CHANGELING – ETT tour, director Stephen Unwin
LAST EASTER - Birmingham Rep studio, director Douglas Hodge
MACBETH - Greece, director George Kimoulis
LEAVES – Druid Theatre & Royal Court co-production, director Garry Hynes
THE RIVALS – Bath Theatre Royal No 1 tour, director Christopher Morahan
AN IDEAL HUSBAND – Theatr Clwyd, director Christopher Morahan
and as director on MEPHISTO and FOUR TALES FROM THE DECALOGUE at E15 School

MOST RECENT OPERA and DANCE INCLUDES
JEANNE D’ARC au BÛCHER - Academia Santa Cecilia, Rome, director Keith Warner; LA TRAVIATA (English National Opera, Conall Morrison); TENDERHOOKS (Skanes Dansteater, Didy Veldman); SEE BLUE THROUGH (Introdans, Didy Veldman); THE JOURNEY (new dance piece for CandoCo, Fin Walker); SEE BLUE THROUGH (Phoenix Dance Company, Didy Veldman); ESSENCE (Walker Dance Park Music - Linbury Studio & UK tour, Fin Walker) and OUTSIGHT (new Ballet with Didy Veldman for Ballet Gulbenkian in Lisbon)

 

OTHER INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
ROSE RAGE (Propeller, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Duke Theatre New York, West End and Watermill Theatre, TMA Award Best Touring Production – Ed Hall); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Propeller/Brooklyn Academy, USA & West End, UK tour, Watermill Theatre - winner TMA Award for Best Touring Production, Ed Hall); THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (Broadway, Sydney, Toronto, West End and Druid Theatre, Garry Hynes); OEDIPUS TYRANNUS - Epidaurus, Greece, George Kimoulis ); SILENCE, SILENCE, SILENCE (Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana Vito Taufer) and MACBETH (Gladsaxe Theatre Denmark, Ole Bornedal).

 

OTHER WEST END & LONDON
MACBETH starring Sean Bean and Samantha Bond (Albery, Ed Hall); THE CONSTANT WIFE (West End, Watermill Theatre & UK tours, Ed Hall); THE LEENANE TRILOGY (Royal Court & Druid Theatre, Garry Hynes); WHO KILLED MR DRUM ? (Riverside Studios, Paul Robinson).

OTHER ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: JULIUS CAESAR, HENRY V and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA – all Ed Hall and THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY - Di Trevis

 

NATIONAL THEATRE
REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST (Pinter’s adaptation of PROUST, Di Trevis), UNCLE VANYA and BENT (both directed by Sean Mathias), ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (Tim Supple), AT OUR TABLE (Jenny Killick), THE WINTER’S TALE (Peter Hall), THE COLLEEN BAWN (also Abbey Theatre - Conall Morrison).

 

Other work for ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD; JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN, GHOSTS, THE MASTERBUILDER, HEDDA GABLER , THE SEAGULL, A DOLL’S HOUSE , HAMLET and MACBETH (all Stephen Unwin) and THE CARETAKER (Gari Jones).

 

OTHER THEATRE IN IRELAND
THE HOUSE (Conall Morrison); THE WAKE (Patrick Mason); MADE IN CHINA and FREEDOM OF THE CITY (also Lincoln Festival New York, Conall Morrison) at the Abbey Theatre and LONESOME WEST (Gaiety Theatre, Garry Hynes)

 

OTHER THEATRE includes
THE MARQUISE (UK tour, Guy Retallack); RESURRECTION (Lichfield Garrick, Corin Redgrave & Annie Castledine); HINGE OF THE WORLD (Yvonne Arnaud, Ed Hall); THE CIRCLE (No 1 Tour, Mark Rosenblatt); AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (Bill Alexander) and THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (Di Trevis) at Theatr Clwyd; JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tara Arts Trilogy on national tour, Jatinder Verma); PUTTING IT TOGETHER (Chichester, Ed Hall); THE CIRCLE (UK tour, Mark Rosenblatt) and ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Irina Brook) for OSC; DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Birmingham Rep, Di Trevis); JUST THE THREE OF US (Theatre Royal Windsor/regional tour, Peter Hall); ALBERTINE IN FIVE TIMES (BAC ‘Critics Up for Review’, Jeremy Kingston); MACBETH & PERICLES (Ludlow Festival, both James Roose-Evans); TWELFTH NIGHT (Watermill Theatre, Ed Hall); ABANDONMENT (John Tiffany) and SHETLAND SAGA (Philip Howard) at the Traverse Theatre; THE WINSLOW BOY (The Gielgud/national tour, Wyn Jones), WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and BETRAYAL (WYP, Matthew Warchus).

And previous DANCE CREDITS include
TENDER HOOKS (Ballet Gulbenkian, Didy Veldman), I REMEMBER RED (Cullberg Ballet, Didy Veldman), A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Northern Ballet, Didy Veldman & Pat Doyle), SEE BLUE THROUGH (Ballet Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Didy Veldman), IBI L’OHUN (Brest, Sophiatou Kossoko) and GOD’S PLENTY (Rambert Dance Company, Christopher Bruce).

 

And previous OPERA & MUSICAL CREDITS include
BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP (World Premiere, Opera North/BBC 2, Jonathon Moore), PUNCH AND JUDY (Aldeburgh/Berlin & Vienna, Graham Devlin), IL TROVATORE (Scottish Opera, Mark Brickman), COSI FAN TUTTE (Scottish Opera, Graham Devlin), AGRIPPINA (Buxton Opera Festival), THE BOTTLE IMP & BOW DOWN (Major Road, Graham Devlin), LA TRAVIATA (Bath & Wessex Opera, John Pascoe), THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Bath & Wessex Opera, Olivia Fuchs), ARMINIO (Royal College Music, Olivia Fuchs), THE MASK OF ORPHEUS (Royal Festival Hall, Stephen Langridge), THE CORONATION OF POPPEA (the Purcell Quartet, Japan Peter James) and BABES IN ARMS (Martin Connor),THE CUNNING PEASANT (Robert Chevara) and LA FEDELTA PREMIATA - (Jamie Hayes) for Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He is also currently lighting the Calico Textiles Museum, Ahmedebad.