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Jenny Ogilvie
is a director, creative collaborator and movement specialist.
photo credit: Ivan Weiss
Background
After early years of dance training, Jenny studied modern languages at university and then trained as an actor, working for ten years in the industry. She then brought together her love of movement and dance and her experience as a performer and completed an MA in Movement Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She now works as a director and movement specialist in the UK and internationally. She speaks fluent French and Italian, basic German and a little Japanese.
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Contact
For directing and movement enquiries:
Day Macaskill
Cruickshank Cazenove Ltd
day@ccagents.co.uk
For acting enquiries:
James Foster
James Foster Ltd
info@jamesfosterltd.co.uk
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Current Productions:
The Fifth Step
National Theatre of Scotland, 2024
Director: Finn den Hertog
Past Productions:
Street Scene(s)
Academie de l’Opéra de Paris, 2024
Director: Ted Huffman
Lear
Hannover Staatsoper, 2024
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Sonntag aus Licht
Le Balcon, Festival d’Automne Paris, 2023
La Cenerentola (as Director)
English Touring Opera, 2023
Carmen
Scottish Opera, 2023
Director: John Fulljames
Orlando
Oper Frankfurt, 2023
Director: Ted Huffman
Il Piccolo Principe
La Scala, 2022
Director: Polly Graham
Spell Book / La Liberazione di Ruggiero... (as Director)
Longborough Festival Opera, 2022
The Cunning Little Vixen
English National Opera, 2022
Director: Jamie Manton
Don Giovanni
Nevill Holt Opera Festival, 2021
Director: Jack Furness
The Rerturn of Ulysses (as Associate Director)
Longborough Festival Opera 2021
Director: Polly Graham
Greek
Hannover State Opera, 20201
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Crave
Chichester Festival Theatre, 2020
Director: Tinuke Craig
The Marriage Of Figaro
English National Opera, Coliseum 2020
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Orlando
Vienna State Opera, 2019
Director: Polly Graham
Vassa
Almeida Theatre, 2019
Director: Tinuke Craig
Plenty
Chichester Festival Theatre 2019
Director: Kate Hewitt
Hobson’s Choice
Royal Exchange, Manchester 2019
Director: Atri Banerjee
The Marriage Of Figaro
Wuppertal Opera House 2019
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Rutherford and Son
Sheffield Crucible 2019
Director: Caroline Steinbeis
hang
Sheffield Crucible 2019
Director: Taio Lawson
Greek
BAM, New York 2018
Scottish Opera/Opera Ventures
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
The Burning Fiery Furnace (as Director)
Scottish Opera 2018
Midsummer
National Theatre of Scotland 2018
Director: Kate Hewitt
Love and Information
Sheffield Crucible 2018
Director: Caroline Steinbeis
The Turn of The Screw
Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park/ English National Opera 2018
Director: Timothy Sheader
La Traviata
Longborough Opera Festival 2018
Director: Daisy Evans
Absolute Hell (as Associate Director)
National Theatre 2018
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Greek
Theatre Royal, Glasgow 2018
Scottish Opera/Opera Ventures
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
B
Royal Court Theatre 2017
Director: Sam Pritchard
Greek
Edinburgh International Festival 2017
Scottish Opera/Opera Ventures
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival 2017
Director: Netia Jones
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Young Vic 2017
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Dr Angelus (as Director)
Finborough Theatre 2016
P’yongyang
Finborough Theatre
Director: Chelsea Walker
Lucia di Lammermoor
Buxton Festival
Director: Steven Unwin
Three Sisters
Southwark Playhouse
Director: Russell Bolam
The Seven Deadly Sins
Welsh National Opera/Cardiff University
Director: Sophie Rashbrook
Somersaults
Finborough Theatre
Director: Russell Bolam
The Soft of her Palm
Finborough Theatre
Director: Ola Ince