Caroline Clegg: Co - Producer & Director
Caroline founded Feelgood in 1994 and has now produced and directed all their shows to date, specialising in site-specific classics and new commissions. She directed their acclaimed production of Not About Heroes (Trafalgar Studios and nat tour 06/7) and is delighted to be creating Eloquent Protest III which is a way in which artists can use their talents to promote an option to conflict; peace.
Caroline has recently returned from Sicily where she was the associate director on Janacek opera, From The House of the Dead at the Teatro Massimo.
As a freelance theatre director Caroline has worked in regional theatre and in opera with Welsh National Opera, Opera North, for whom she will revive Paradise Moscow in 2009, English National Opera, Buxton International Festival, Manchester Camerata and regularly with the Halle Orchestra. She also creates large scale special events such as Millennium Eve celebrations in collaboration with the BBC and arena productions of Aida and Carmen in Zurich and Hamburg.
She lectured at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal College and she has held the John Thaw Fellowship at Manchester University for three years and lectures in the Drama Department.
Caroline works with Celebrity Pig, a company for actors with a learning disability and directed Romeo and Juliet - A Question of Choice at The Lowry with guest actor Christopher Eccleston, which culminated in the recent BBC documentary. Caroline is also an actress: most recently Dr Leigh in Coronation Street and Thelma Cross in Longford,
In 2005 she won the inaugural Stage Door Foundation Award, The Angel Award for Artistic Excellence and was named Lancashire Woman of the Year.
Feelgood launched Manchester's first summer outdoor repertory season in 2007 and Caroline was awarded the Horniman Award at the Manchester Evening News Awards for her ‘outstanding contribution to live theatre.’ Plans for 2009 include a site specific production of Macbeth with the Zimbabwe company Siyaya, with whom they created Romeo and Juliet – Thando and Ruvhengo in Zimbabwe for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme in 2002. With writer Kevin Feegan she is also preparing a stage adaptation of Mende Nazer’s life story from her autobiographic book Slave which she wrote with Damien Lewis. Slave charts Mende’s life as a slave in the Sudan and her eventual escape in London in 2000.
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Introduction:
Tony Benn
Singers
Rosemary Ashe
Sally Burgess
Charlie Dore
Johnnie Fiori
Fiona MacDonald
The Manchester
Lesbian & Gay Chorus
Nasrin Parvaz
Annette Reis-Dunne
Andrea Roberts
Peter Straker
Writers
Stella Duffy
Leslie Forbes
David Harsent
Ben Mellor
Shelley Silas
Lemn Sissay
Actors
Janie Dee
Sam Ellis
John Guerrasio
Loveday Smith
Will Strange
Two’s Company
Rupert Wickham
Dan Willis
Chris and Olly
Musicians
Julian Littman (MD)
Neal Thornton
Directors
London: Caroline Clegg
Nepal: Hazel Roy
Special Guests
Mende Nazer
Julie Nicholson
Trafalgar Studios
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Event sponsors & supporters:
The Stage Door Foundation
Dave Kirkwood Studio
J. S. Dutton
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