Julian Crouch is an independent director, designer, librettist, illustrator and musician.
Upcoming/In Development:
The Opposable Thumb with Jorge Sosa for ALT
Seven Dolls for Paola Prestini with support from The Henson Foundation
The Sailmaker’s Wife for Kristin Nordeval
The Encompassing with Nicholas Powell
The Crooked Finger The Gate, Dublin
Selected Previous Commissions:
Tales of a Cockroach with Du Yun & the Jack Quartet
Jedermann for The Salzburg Festival
Broadway Designs:
The Addams Family Musical (Winner for Best Set Design — Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards)
Big Fish
Head Over Heels
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Nominated)
Opera Designs:
The Egyptian Helena, Hansel and Gretel, and Ernani for La Scala Opera, Milan
Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island, Doctor Atomic, and Marnie for the English National Opera and the Met Opera
The Barber of Seville for the Dutch National Opera
The Magic Flute the Welsh National Opera
King Arthur for the Berlin Staatsoper and Theater an der Wien
PRESS:
“An unforgettable world…”
—Opera News
Julian Crouch is an independent director, designer, librettist, illustrator and musician; co-founder of Improbable, and co-director and designer of Shockheaded Peter. Opera work includes The Egyptian Helena, Hansel and Gretel and Ernani for La Scala Opera, Milan; Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island, Doctor Atomic, Marnie for the English National Opera and the Met Opera; The Barber Of Seville for the Dutch National Opera; The Magic Flute Welsh National Opera and King Arthur for Berlin Staatsoper. On Broadway he designed Little Shop of Horrors, The Addams Family Musical, Big Fish, Head Over Heels and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Nomination). Julian co-directed, co-composed and designed Jedermann for the Salzburg Festival and co-created The Aging Magician for BMP at the New Victory Theater. Ballet designs include The Nutcracker for Christopher Wheeldon and The Joffrey Ballet, Cinderella for the Dutch National and San Francisco Ballets. His production Birdheart played for the Dalai Lama in Brussels and has toured as far afield as Zimbabwe and Abu Dhabi. Recent residencies and commissions include New York’s Park Avenue Armory; the inaugural commission by BRIC House Fireworks Residency in Brooklyn, NY and his ongoing residency at ALT developing The Opposable Thumb with composer Jorge Sosa. A lifetime multidisciplinary collaborator, Julian’s works and companies have won Drama Desk, OBIE and Oliver awards.