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LEAH HAUSMAN

choreographer and movement director

Leah Hausman is based in London and works internationally as a choreographer, movement director and associate. She trained in dance and drama in New York City and at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has collaborated extensively with Terry Gilliam, Sir David Mcvicar, Simon Mcburney, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier as choreographer, movement director, associate, and co-director.

Some notable productions include: Wozzeck conducted by Sir Simon Rattle for Festival Aix en Provence; Pelleas and Melisande for LA Opera; Into the Woods (co-director with Terry Gilliam) for Bath Theatre Royal; Midsummers Night’s Dream for New National Theatre, Tokyo and La Monnaie; Benvenuto Cellini for Opera Nationale de Paris, ENO, DNO, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Rome Opera;  The Damnation of Faust for Staatsoper Berlin, ENO, De Vlaamse Opera and Teatro Massimo, Palermo; Weimar Nightfall with the LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen;  The Rakes Progress for Moscow Stanislavsky Music Theatre, Festival Aix and Dutch National Opera; Rusalka for San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera; Fortune’s Fool for The Old Vic; Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Pedro the Magnificent and As You Like It for the Royal Shakespeare Company; A Midsummer’s Night Dream for Manchester Theatre Royal; Roberto Devereux for Theatre Champs Elysees 

Leah has helped create some of the most popular opera productions in the world; including… For the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflote, Les Troyens, Aida, Il Turco in Italia; For the The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore, Maria Stuarda, Norma, Tosca, Roberto Devereux; For Glyndebourne Festival: Elisir d’Amore, La Boheme, Gianni Schicci, The Miserly Knight; For Chicago Lyric Opera: Billy Budd, Il Trovatore, Rusalka; For Scottish Opera- Madama Butterfly, La Clemenza di Tito; For San Francisco Opera: Lohengrin, Don Giovanni, Les Troyens, Rusalka. 

Leah has worked on numerous semi-staged and experimental projects with the LSO, Deutche Kammerphilharmonie and London Sinfonietta. She is committed to bringing new life to the world of opera and theatre and has led workshops at all the major opera and theatre institutions in London. She is a regular workshop leader at Festival Aix-en-Provence, where she has a longstanding relationship and was movement director on a world Premiere of Kahlila wa Dimna, an opera written in both Arabic and French.