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Poppy Burton-Morgan

 

 

                              Artistic Director  - Metta Theatre, 2005 to present

                    Associate Director - Exeter Northcott Theatre, 2016 to present 

THEATRE

2017 Pixel Dust (new writing)                                     Edinburgh Festival (Assembly)

2017 Comedy of Errors                                                Exeter Northcott

2016/17 Jungle Book                                                   Windsor Theatre Royal, UK & Int. tour

2016 Blown Away                                                        Exeter Northcott & UK tour

2015 Mouthful (new writing)                                      Trafalgar Studios

2015 The King of Tiny Things                                     Malvern Theatres & UK tour

2014 Alice                                                                    Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & UK tour

2013 Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi                                      Northern Light (Jagged Fence)

2012 Arab Nights (new writing)                                 Soho Theatre & UK tour

2012 As You Like It                                                     Wirksworth Festival (Jagged Fence)

2011 The Man with the Flower in His Mouth           Oxford Playhouse & UK tour

2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream                           Wirksworth Festival (Jagged Fence)

2011 Sexing The Cherry                                              Southbank Centre

2011 Gotcha                                                                Riverside Studios (Jagged Fence)

2010 Otieno (new writing, after Othello)                   Southwark Playhouse

2009 Blood Wedding                                                   Southwark Playhouse

 

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA

FUTURE:

2018 Roles (new opera)                                              V&A Opera Company

2018 In The Willows (new musical)                           Exeter Northcott & UK tour

2018 Little Mermaid (new musical)                           Theatre By The Lake & UK tour

2017 Palace of Junk (new opera)                                Mahogany Opera Various Stages Festival

2015 Cosi fan Tutte (opera)                                        New Theatre, Oxford

2013 Flicker (new opera)                                            Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadlers Wells

2010 Waiting (verbatim music theatre)                     Southbank Centre     

2010 HMS Pinafore (opera)                                       Cambridge Arts Theatre

2010 Cocteau in The Underworld (new opera)        Arcola Theatre, Studio One     

2009 La Boheme (opera)                                            Palestine National Theatre & Tour     

2008 J'attendrais (opera)                                           UK tour (English Touring Opera)

2008 Just So/The Elephant's Child (new opera)      Trafalgar Studios/Arcola Theatre     

 

STAGED READINGS

2017 Three Sisters, The Barbican

2016 Dot, English Touring Theatre

2016, 2017 In The Willows –  hip-hop musical, Exeter Northcott Theatre

2014 Jungle Book, Birmingham Repertory Theatre

2012 Box, English Touring Theatre

2011 Hamlet, from the First Folio (starring Samuel & Timothy West), V&A  

2011 Hanging onto a Thread to Believe in Rare Things, Hampstead Theatre

2008 The State We're In (starring Samuel West & Raquel Cassidy), Trafalgar Studios     

 

AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

2009 6 Characters In Search of an Author, dir. Rupert Goold                  Bristol Old Vic & UK tour (Headlong)    

2008-09 Duet for One, dir. Matthew Lloyd                                               Almeida Theatre, UK tour & West End    

2008 Hamlet, dir. Tim Carroll                                                                     UK tour (The Factory)

2008 Rusalka, dir. James Conway  (Staff Director)                                    No 1 tour (English Touring Opera)    

2008 La Tragedie de Carmen, dir. Andrew Steggall  (Staff Director)       No 1 tour (English Touring Opera)    

2008 A Midsummer Night's Dream, dir. Jonathan Munby                       Shakespeare's Globe            

2007-08 Madame Butterfly, dir. Tim Albery                                              No 1 tour (Opera North)    

2007 The Magic Flute, dir. Samuel West                                                    Palestine National Theatre & tour

2006 Mirandolina, dir. Jonathan Munby                                                    Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester    

 

AWARDS

 

NCCA Lab: Time Award 2015 | Circus Space Lab: Time Award 2012 |finalist Northern Stage Title Pending Award for New Theatre (for Arab Nights) 2012

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