Adele is an award-winning director, working internationally in Opera and Music Theatre. She is an alumna of the RTYDS scheme and the National Theatre Young Director’s Course and an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.
Adele is Co-General Director and CEO of Welsh National Opera with Sarah Crabtree.
Opera & Theatre
Awards
International opera award nomination
2022
Opera Award: Director
Olivier Award nomination
2022
Bajazet
Best New Opera Production
Olivier Award nomination
2020
Berenice
Royal Opera House
Best New Opera Production and Achievement in Opera
MTA Award
2018
The Weir
ETT
Best Visiting Production
Argus Angel Award
2014
The Bloody Ballad
WhatsOnStage Award
2013
The Bloody Ballad
Best Musical
MTN Award
2013
The Bloody Ballad
Best Musical & Best Music
Scotsman & Brighton Fringe Award
2013
The Bloody Ballad
Emerging Talent
Theatre in Wales Award
2013
The Bloody Ballad
Best Ensemble / Best Music
Dirty Protest Award
2008
Repeat
Best Director
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Committee Award
2007
Supporting New Writing
Credits
Un ballo in maschera
2026
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Il trovatore
2025
Royal Opera House
Tannhäuser
2025
Magdeburg, Germany
Rigoletto
2024
Welsh National Opera
Un Ballo In Maschera
2024
Zurich Opera House
Semele
2023
Glyndebourne Opera
In The Realms of Sorrow
2023
London Handel Festival
Il trovatore
2023
Royal Opera House
Baroque Scenes
2022
National Opera Studios
Bajazet
2022
Irish National Opera
Il trovatore
2021
Zurich Opera House
4/4: Apollo & Daphne
2020
Royal Opera House
Hail Cremation!
2020
National Theatre Wales
Cosi Fan Tutte
2019
Nevill Holt Opera
the memory of water
2019
Nottingham Playhouse
Berenice
2019
Royal Opera House
Eyam
2018
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Macbeth
2018
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol
The Weir
2017
English Touring Theatre
National Theatre Festival
2017
National Theatre
Associate Connections Director
Birdland
2017
LAMDA
Cosi Fan Tutte
2017
Northern Ireland Opera
Three Sisters
2016
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
MACBETH, THE COMPLETE WALK
2016
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Short Film
National Theatre Festival
2016
National Theatre
Associate Connections Director
All That I Am
2016
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama / Gate Theatre London
MADNESS IN VALENCIA
2016
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Thomas Tallis
2015
Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
THE ORESTEIA
2015
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
National Theatre Festival
2015
National Theatre
Associate Connections Director
THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE
2014
Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
THOMAS TALLIS
2014
Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe
A WARRING ABSENCE
2014
National Theatre
NT Platform
UNUSUAL UNIONS – THE GOLDEN HOURS
2014
Royal Court
NATIONAL THEATRE CONNECTIONS
2014
National Theatre
Associate Connections Director
THE BLOODY BALLAD OF MARY MAID
2014
Brighton Fringe / Latitude
COMPANY OF WOLVES R&D
2013
Kneehigh Theatre
APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS - WITH THE FORSYTHE SISTERS
2013
Gagglebabble / Theatr Iolo
YOUNG STUDIO SEASON
2013
National Theatre Learning
A VAMPIRE STORY
2013
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
GABRIEL
2013
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Director: Dominic Dromgoole
Associate Director
THE BLOODY BALLAD OF MARY MAID
2013
Soho Theatre / Theatr Iolo / Sherman Cymru / Edinburgh Festival / Tour
WRITE HERE
2013
Traverse Theatre
MY PEOPLE
2013
National Theatre of Wales
Director & Writer
GREATER THAN LOVE
2013
National Theatre of Wales
Director & Co-Writer with Dafydd James
PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS
THE PASSION – ONE YEAR ON | Memory project and exhibition | National Theatre of Wales
A COLD SPREAD | Chapter/Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
THE BLUE LENSES | Royal & Derngate, Northampton
BULLETPROOF |Replay
CITYSCAPE: DELUGE/NO VACANCIES | Sherman Cymru
A DOLL’S HOUSE | Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN SWANS | Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
UNDER MILK WOOD | Royal & Derngate, Northampton
BIG HOPES | National Theatre, Connections Festival
REPEAT | Dirty Protest
THE GOOD SOUL OF SZECHWAN | Young Vic (TPR)
SENENDD | Welsh National Opera
THE PUSH AND THE PULL | Sherman Cymru
AN ENEMY FOR THE PEOPLE | Sgript Cymru/Chapter Arts Centre
THE RIVER | Edinburgh Festival Tour
FALLING | Sherman Youth Theatre
AS ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAPPINESS | Assistant Director | Dir. Dominic Cooke | Royal Court Theatre
BIRTHDAY | Assistant Director | Dir. Roger Michell | Royal Court Theatre
THE PASSION | Project Associate | working with Michael Sheen | National Theatre of Wales
UNDER MILK WOOD | Creative Associate for Taliesin
OTHER EXPERIENCE
BULLETPROOF | As Dramaturge for Replay
PITCH IN | A series of creative collaborations between writers for Sherman Cymru
SCRIPT STUDY | Co-producing, devising and organising a series of workshops for experienced writers led by leading theatre practitioners | Living Pictures/Script Cymru
HURST RESIDENCY | Resident Director of course for young writers at Arvon Foundation
MA DESIGN PROJECT | Consultant Director for RWCMD
OPERA DESIGN CONCEPTUAL PROJECT | Consultant Director for RWCMD
RUTH IS STRANGER THAN RICHARD | Artistic Director
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE | Artistic Director, Sherman Youth Theatre
PROCESS WEEK | Young Vic
BRECHT WORKSHOP | Young Vic
A RESPECTABLE WEDDING
NEW YOUNG DIRECTOR’S COURSE (2005) | National Theatre Studio