Emma Bernard Email and Phone Number

In January 2020, following a period of local research and idea development Orlando Gough, Emma Bernard, Melanie Pappenheim and Esmé Herbert will present ‘Order’ – a unique performance commission (delivered) in collaboration with the Nettleham Community Choir, led by Liz McIntosh.

"A new commission by Jewish Music Institute inspired by the poems and drawings from the book ‘I Never Saw Another Butterfly‘ of the child inmates held in Terezin by the Nazis. Our project has also been awarded the PRSF’s prestigious David Bedford Music Education Award. It is very inspiring that the Jewish Music Institute’s artistic and educational vision has been recognised in this way. We are excited to be working with a brilliant creative team including composer Jocelyn Pook, dramaturg Emma Bernard and visual artist Dragan Aleksic and world-renowned artists to create a paradigm-shifting cross-disciplinary piece."

Music led theatre production at Thorington Theatre in the woods, involving professional actor musicians and 80 children

Devising a new show about love with 24 MA Actors

Honey Man, an ageing Caribbean recluse, is trying to save his dying bees in a derelict English cottage on the edge of rural England.Into his world bursts a sixteen-year-old girl called Misty.His stormy encounter with the fiery, weed-smoking heir to the nearby manor house leads to an unlikely friendship, and the discovery of a secret hidden in a painting which connects their past, present and destiny in ways they could never have imagined.Birmingham writer and actor Tyrone Huggins plays the title role in this compelling contemporary staging featuring sparkling dialogue, an atmospheric soundscape, and projection design by the Olivier Award-winning Timothy Bird.★★★★“There’s a buzz about this”The Guardian

Off to Beijing with Conductor Duncan Ward to do a semi-staged Peter Grimes with Hangzhou Philharmonic, London Voices and a wonderful cast of soloists

Just finished this big outdoor spectacular in collaboration with composer Jonathan Baker and The Liverpool Lantern Company

A wonderful two years focusing on our major Film and Live Opera production " The Answer to Everything" http://www.streetwiseopera.org/answer-everything

Assistant Director on Peter Grimes May/June 2011

I have recently directed 'Fables' - a major film opera project for Streetwise Opera which will opened in December 2010. The films are currently touring and I am staging live performance in some of the venues including Broadway Nottingham, Tyneside Newcastle and BFI London.

Emma has just finished a six-month contract with Cardboard Citizens as “Project Director - War and Homelessness” and director of 'Led Easy' by David Watson ( Hostels Tour). For Streetwise Opera she devised and directed the live staging of My Secret Heart at the RFH in 2008 and created Critical Mass with composer Orlando Gough and The Shout at Almeida Opera 2007. Other recent projects: Flam at Tête à Tête the Opera Festival , Sun and Heir – a large scale production for ROH Education at Tilbury Docks, Fingerprint with The Shout at Linbury Studio, Tongue-Tied with Askew and Avis for ROH2 ‘Firsts’. She is currently developing a new play – Woman Falling Over with writer Sarah Woods, supported by The National Theatre Studio.