Cecilia Thoden van Velzen
Programme: Serena Fenwick programme
Discipline: Director
Year: 2025
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MA Directing Classical and Contemporary Text, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 2024
BA Directing Theatre, Toneelacademie Maastricht, 2022
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Director, The After-Dinner Joke, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Director, The Boy Who Couldn't Sit Still, Imaginate
Director, Make the Bed, Zoo Playground, Edinburgh Fringe
Director, Learlike, European Shakespeare Festival Network
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“As a young director of opera, I am most interested in how to turn something so sonically vast into something that reaches people on an intimate, personal level. For me, storytelling through sound is incredibly personal. When we sing, it’s the most vulnerable we get. And so, I want nothing more than to learn how to harness that enormous potential and tell the stories of those of us who are brave enough to sing.
In addition to theatre, I spend a lot of immersing myself in other forms of storytelling – I love reading books, wandering through museums, and having long conversations with friends and strangers. I write and I create. I love making small things with my hands, like puppets and picture books.”