Hazel Gould is a director, writer and workshop leader who specialises in community and outreach both for productions and workshops.

For the last 15 years, she has used her background in theatre to collaborate with musicians creating new work in a diverse range of settings from professional productions to prisons and special needs schools.

This year she is directing a short opera commissioned and performed by Streetwise Opera in Nottingham and in 2013 she directed the Community Opera Woodwose by Kerry Andrew at The Wigmore Hall.

In recent years she has become increasingly recognised for her writing, and has written several libretti, notably We Are Shadows for Spitalfields Festival, winner of a RPS Music Award for Learning and Participation. This year will see works premiered by Sinfonia Viva,  Philharmonia Orchestra , Streetwise Opera, Aurora Orchestra and the Triborough Music Hub & W11 Opera.

As an assistant director she works regularly for the Royal Opera House, in 2014 she was the director of  the community ensemble for the Olivier award winning production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites.  She lead the 70 strong  ensemble of   non-professional performers drawn from groups working with homelessness, ex-offenders and job –seekers, who made up the large acting chorus in Robert Carson’s classic staging.