Helen, Battersea Arts Centre
The Turn of the Screw, Cape Town 2024
Summer Performance, Royal Opera House
London Film School Graduation Showcase
Helen, VAULT Festival
Scenes from 'Werther', Royal Opera House
Scenes from 'Barber of Seville', Royal Opera House
Skeletons, Cockpit Theatre
Clonter Opera Gala 2023
London Film School Graduation Showcase
Scenes from 'I Capuleti E I Montecchi', Royal Opera House
Nacht, Royal Opera House
Clonter Opera Gala 2023
The Turn of the Screw, Cape Town 2024
The Vagina Musical
Grip, International Youth Arts Festival
The Vagina Musical
I direct the canon like it’s alive and accountable.
I make new work with power, care, and meaning built deliberately.
Hi, I’m Harriet Taylor
Royal Opera House
Jette Parker Program
Artistic Director
Nothing to Perform
Current work: Opéra-Comique (Werther) · Opera Holland Park (Ballo) · New Orleans Opera (Rosenkavalier)
Current work: Opéra-Comique (Werther) · Opera Holland Park (Ballo) · New Orleans Opera (Rosenkavalier)
A bit about me…
American director working across opera, theatre, and new work, based between London and the Gulf South.
I build rehearsal rooms where safety enables rigor, and performers can take real risk with precision and care.
I’m drawn to work that holds beauty and discomfort at the same time—interrogating gender, belief, and power without sentimentality.