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Kirsty Bennett received her vocal training at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.

Kirsty is currently doing a small series of tours with Clive Ward in Diary of a Nobody and Catching the Sun.  For further details of shows and tour dates, click here or visit Backstage

Her roles on stage cover a diversity of styles from Opera to Musical Theatre and plays, including numerous Gilbert and Sullivan heroines, both spunky sopranos and madcap mezzos, a Nymph in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Anna in Weill’s Die Sieben Todsünden, Roxie Hart (Chicago), Little Red Ridinghood (Into The Woods) and Hannah in Ayckbourn’s Chorus of Disapproval.

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Having been involved in producing, set design and publicity, she finally took the plunge into directing three years ago with Fiddler On The Roof for the University of London Opera Group. She directed Kurt Weill’s Street Scene for Imperial Opera, and assisted on Opera Jigsaw’s Il Trovatore.

Email: Kirsty Bennett

 

Kirsty is the founder member of Cabaret Direct

Kirsty, accompanied by pianist Wendy Norman, performed her one woman
show Songs of Kleptomania at awl in February 2007.

 

Kirsty directed Brian Marshall's sketch Brief Encounter (2003), performed as part of awl's first public showcase at the Bullion Room Theatre, Hackney Empire, in November 2003.

Kirsty directed Rosalind Adler's one-woman show, Bruised Blueberries, first read at awl and played in Zoo at the Pleasance throughout the Edinburgh Festival in August 2005. Click the image (right) for further details on Rosalind Adler's website.

For Tilt-Yard Theatre, Kirsty has directed a double bill: Hamlet, Tragedy of a Fat Man, by Paddy Gormley and The Fall by Albert Camus. This production of The Fall features six songs, selected and sung (some also translated) by Kirsty Bennett. The Tilt-Yard website (link below) features click-to-play showreels, including Kirsty performing in The Fall.

Kirsty directed a performed reading of Paddy Gormley's play, Twenty-Twenty, at the Bridewell Theatre in February 2002 and subseqently at awl in January 2005. Click on the image (right) to visit the Twenty-Twenty website, which includes click-to-play showreels.

And in June 2003, she directed the awl reading of
O Goddess by Paddy Gormley  a one-goddess show for actress Rosalind Adler.

Other plays directed for awl include:


Recent acting/singing roles for awl

  • Em/Sarah in Catching the Sun, a musical by Tom Armstrong and Stephanie McKnight, with pianist Wendy Norman
  • Songs of Kleptomania with pianist Wendy Norman
  • Jonquil/Ophelia/Witch in Profit Share Ghosts by Elizabeth Gamberoni.

 
 

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