Annabel Arden

Annabel studied at Cambridge and trained in Paris with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and at Jacques Lecoq's Laboratoire d'Études du Mouvement. She is a co-founder of Complicite.

Theatre directing credits include The Duchess of Malfi, Climbing Kilimanjaro (NT Studio) and most recently the world premiere of Interruptions by Stephen Jeffreys at the University of California, Davis. Co-directing credits include India Song (Theatre Clwyd) and The Women of Troy (NT) both with Annie Castledine. Directing for the radio includes Durrenmatt's Frank the Fifth and and Bernhardt's Arrived in a new version by Stephen Jeffreys. Directing for opera includes The Magic Flute, The Return of Ulysses, La Traviata, The Rake's Progress, The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera North); Beethoven's Leonore with John Eliot Gardiner (European tour); Faust (Luzern); Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg (Florence and Turin). This year Annabel will revive her La Traviata and in 2004 she will make her Glyndebourne debut with a double bill of Rachmaninov's Miserly Knight and Puccinin's Gianni Schicchi. As a performer, Annabel's credits include Mickey La Torche (Royal Court); Uncle Vanya (Renaissance Theatre Company); 1001 Nights (Atelier International de Theatre Paris); Playing With Fire, Abel Barebones (Traverse Edinburgh); No son of mine (Philippe Gaulier); Brecht/Aspazija (The 1982 Theatre Company); Macbeth, Othello (CBS Players); The Roaring Girl (Mummers); and Woman's Hour Footlights Revue. Annabel's teaching credits include projects with the National Gallery, Tate, Royal College of Music, Ashridge Business School, Senior NHS Nurses, The Industrial Society, The London Business School, ENO, DV8, Royal College of Art and for many drama schools including the Philippe Gaulier School.

Annabel is one of five finalists for this year's European Woman of Achievement Award.

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