Joe Austin
Theatre and Opera Director
DIRECTOR
2023 - Blond Eckbert / Acis and Galatea Potsdam Winteroper
2023 - Rainbow Rae and the Colour Stone Rescue! UnderWired Productions
2022 - The Right Royal Rumpus UnderWired Productions
2022 - Theodora Northern Aldborough Festival
2020 - Aida (associate director) Houston Grand Opera
2019 - Die Walküre Act 1 Quad City Symphony Orchestra
2018 - Carmen Wandsworth Prison Project
2018 - Marriage of Figaro Nevill Holt Opera
2016 - Being a Don (& dramaturg - workshop) English National Opera
2015 - Salome Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
2014 - Il Tabarro Opera Vera
2014 - Albert Herring Hampstead Garden Opera
2014 - La Calisto (& translator) Hampstead Garden Opera
2013 - St Nicholas Opera North Education
2013 - Lo Speziale Retrospect Ensemble
2013 - Vivienne Tête-À-Tête Opera Festival
2013 - Zaum: Beyond Mind Tête-À-Tête Opera Festival
2012 - A Voice of One Delight Tête-À-Tête Opera Festival
2012 - The Lady of Satis House Tête-À-Tête Opera Festival
2011 - Albert Herring Surrey Opera and Canterbury Festival
2011 - Cunning Little Vixen Ryedale Festival Opera
2010 - The Prodigal Son Ryedale Festival Opera
2010 - The Homecoming Ryedale Festival Opera
2009 - Hary Janos (& translator) Ryedale Festival Opera
2008 - Orlando Ryedale Festival Opera
2007 - Orfeo ed Euridice Ryedale Festival Opera
2005 - Tosca IntraOpera Regional Tour
REVIVAL DIRECTOR
2018 - Don Giovanni Opera Den Norske, Oslo
2017 - Don Giovanni Opera Basel
2016 - La Fanciulla del West Santa Fe Opera
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
2022 - A Christmas Carol Old Vic Theatre
2021 - A Christmas Carol Old Vic Theatre
2020 - Aida Houston Grand Opera
2019 - A Christmas Carol Old Vic Theatre
2019 - Aida Opera Geneve, Geneva
2017 - The Twilight Zone Ambassadors Theatre
2017 - Tosca Nevill Holt Opera
2016 - The Ring Cycle Opera North
2013 - Siegfried Opera North
2007 - Lovely and Misfit Trafalgar Studios
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
2019 - Katya Kabanova - dir. Richard Jones Royal Opera House
2017 - Aida - dir. Phelim McDermott English National Opera
2016 - Don Giovanni - dir. Richard Jones English National Opera
2016 - Akhnaten - dir. Phelim McDermott English National Opera
2015 - La Forza del Destino - dir. Calixto Bieito English National Opera
2015 - Queen of Spades - dir. David Alden English National Opera
2015 - Sweeney Todd - dir. Lonny Price English National Opera / Grade-Linnet
2015 - The Mastersingers of Nuremburg - dir. Richard Jones English National Opera
2014 - The Girl of the Golden West - dir. Richard Jones English National Opera
2014 - Gotterdammerung - dir. Peter Mumford Opera North
2014 - Peter Grimes - dir. David Alden English National Opera
2013 - Dido and Aeneas - dir. Aletta Collins Opera North
2013 - La Voix Humaine - dir. Aletta Collins Opera North
2012 - The Magic Flute - dir. Ian Rutherford English National Opera
2012 - Die Walkure - dir. Peter Mumford Opera North
2008 - Macbeth - dir. Tim Albery Opera North Tour
2007 - All About My Mother - dir. Tom Cairns Old Vic Theatre
2007 - Dido and Aeneas - dir. Aletta Collins Opera North
2007 - Les Noces - dir. Aletta Collins Opera North
2006 - French Lieutenant's Woman - dir. Kate Saxon No. 1 UK Tour
2006 - Hansel & Gretel - dir. John Fulljames Opera North Semi-Staged Concert Tour
2005 - Longitude - dir. Fiona Laird Greenwich Theatre
2005 - Future Me - dir. Abigail Morris Soho Theatre
2005 - Don Giovanni - dir. Olivia Fuchs Opera North Tour
OPERA TEACHING
Course tutor - British Youth Opera Summer workshops
Course director - Old Rectory Opera Course - Chaffcombe, Somerset
Director/tutor - Italian Opera Summer School - Puglia, Southern Italy
Director/tutor - Scenes from 19th Century Opera - Morley Opera School