Maggie Rawlinson
As a creative associate of LYO, Maggie has had the pleasure of working on over a dozen productions for the company to date. Her first production was with Annilese Miskimmon as Movement Director on Shadowtracks and since then she has collaborated with six other stage directors. She is delighted to be both directing and choreographing this year’s commission.
Maggie worked on the revival productions of Richard Jones’s Hansel and Gretel first with Annilese Miskimmon for Nationale Reisopera in the Netherlands and then Ben Davies for Welsh National Opera in Cardiff. She also recreated the staging of Linda Dobell’s work on The Marriage of Figaro for Opera North.
Work with young people includes Summer Holiday, Grease, Hairspray and Oliver! Which she also directed for the Wyvern theatre, Swindon.
Other theatre credits include: Gypsy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) Eye of the Storm, Nye and Jennie, Tom, A Story Of Tom Jones The Musical, Salsa!, Bankrupt Bride, Cyrano, Stowaway (all Theatr na n’Og prods) Jackie the Musical (Gardyne Theatre, Dundee) The Canterbury Tales (Mappa Mundi) Oh What A Lovely War, The Mabinogion (Theatr Clwyd) Be My Baby, A Woman In Mind, Martha, Josie And The Chinese Elvis (Salisbury Playhouse) Sweet Charity (Battersea Arts Centre). Maggie has also choreographed over twenty five Christmas shows across the UK for theatres including Salisbury Playhouse, Theatr Clwyd, Greenwich Theatre, Novello Theatre, Leeds City & Varieties, The New Wolsey and Hall For Cornwall.
Film and television work includes Panto Shane a'r Bont Hud & Panto Shane a'r Belen Aur (Boom Cymru for S4C) The Crust (BBC) Henry VIII with Ray Winstone and Helena Bonham Carter (Granada) In A Land Of Plenty (Talkback Prods) and was Assistant Choreographer on Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros) De-Lovely (MGM/Winkler Films) and Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Dreamworks).