Sophie Gilpin

Sophie Gilpin has a BA in Theatre & Performance Studies from the University of Warwick and an MA with Distinction in Arts Management, Policy & Practice from the University of Manchester. She is an award-winning opera, theatre and film director, Co-Founder of SWAP’ra (Supporting Women and Parents in Opera) and a trustee for Music and Theatre for All. Previously she was Artistic Director of HeadFirst Productions and Festival Director of A Festival of Sex, Love and Death at the Pleasance, Islington. 

Recent directing work includes concert stagings for Welsh National Opera and Opera North and productions for Birmingham Conservatoire, Regents Opera, Northern Opera Group, Leeds Conservatoire, the Vache Baroque Festival and Hampstead Garden Opera. In 2020, her film of Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon won Opera of the Year at the Classical Music Digital Awards. Other directing highlights include La traviata at Teatro Garibaldi, Sicily and Romeo et Juliette at the Rose, Kingston.