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Ella Marchment (born 30 May 1992) is a British opera director, artistic director, and an associate professor.[1] She is a co-founder of the campaign charity SWAP'ra, Supporting Women and Parents in Opera, and the artistic director of Opera Festival of Chicago, and Opera in the Rock, Arkansas.[2][3][4] She previously founded the opera company Helios Collective.[5] She has directed the International Opera Awards since 2017.[6]
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| Born | 30 May 1992 (age 32) Hampshire, England |
| Education | King's College London Royal Academy of Music University of Bristol Central Saint Martins City Literary Institute Bryanston School Bedales School |
| Occupation(s) | Opera and theatre director |
| Website | EllaMarchment.org |
In addition to directing engagements in Europe and the US, Marchment is artistic director of the Opera Festival of Chicago[7][8] and Opera in the Rock in Arkansas,[9] Creative Associate and co-founder of SWAP’ra,[2] and Director of Opera and Associate Professor at Shenandoah Conservatory.[10]
She created Toi Toi, a festival series of operatic club nights held at the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham, London; and Formations Masterclasses, a series of workshops that commissioned and staged new operas, with sessions led by figures from the opera world including Janis Kelly, Judith Weir, Mark Wigglesworth, Kasper Holten, Daniel Kramer, Robert Saxton, Stephen Unwin, Stephen Barlow, Stephen Medcalf, David Pountney, and David Parry.[11] Formations Masterclasses were hosted by English National Opera and King's College London.[12]
Marchment is currently Director of Opera and Associate Professor at Shenandoah Conservatory, and she was previously Director of Opera at Northern Illinois University.[8]
She was artistic resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity[29] and Dutch National Opera.[30]
Marchment is a co-founder of SWAP’ra, an opera-based charity that works to address the under-representation of women in senior leadership roles in opera.[2][14]
In 2015 Marchment became the first opera director to be awarded a bursary by the International Opera Awards.[37]
In 2018 and 2022 she was a semi-finalist in the European Opera-Directing Prize, and in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards in the arts and culture category.[38][39]
In 2015 Marchment co-founded Theatre N16 in London.[40]
She has directed the following stage works:
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