DIRECTOR, opera Andtheatre maker
Freya Wynn-Jones
How It Came To Be, ©ENO Baylis, Genevieve Girling
About
Freya Wynn-Jones is a director, singer and animateur working across a wide range of professional, educational and community settings. With a particular interest in the relationship between theatre and vocal art, Freya works on numerous collaborations to write, compose and devise new work.



Forthcoming Projects
Past Projects
Ongoing Projects
Forthcoming Projects
March 2022-Dec 2023
March 2022-Dec 2023
Developing Your Creative Practice
Freya was delighted to receive a DYCP grant from Arts Council England to support her growing interest in composing for the stage. The grant has afforded her the chance to explore her composition practise through her theatre company Flock Theatre Makers as well as exploring Live Looping and it's function as a theatrical device. With this grant, Freya also develops Flock's next show for Christmas 2023.
June 23 - August 23
June 23 - August 23
Creation Station - Flock Theatre Makers
A new project taking place on the Bluefin Children's ward at Worthing Hospital. Flock will gently R&D the story The Girl and The Dinosaur whilst bringing cross arts activities to young people and their carers on the ward.
Autumn 2023
Autumn 2023
There's a Tiger In The Garden - Composer and MD - Flock Theatre Makers
Flock Theatre bring the Lizzy Stewart's award winning picture book to life again with a studio tour including dates in London, Leicester, Cambridge and Taunton.
Oct 22 - Dec 23
Oct 22 - Dec 23
Royal Opera House - Create and Sing Director
The Royal Opera House's Create and Sing programme provides:

  • a creative learning programme, created with teachers, providing songs for kids in primary schools across England.
  • classroom-based and digital activities, with strong curriculum links, to give better understanding of singing and opera for kids, unlocking their imagination and creativity.
  • teacher training, classroom films, lesson plans and resources to use in ways that suit the needs of the teachers and their students.
June 22 - April 24
June 22 - April 24
Changemakers - Glyndebourne Youth Opera
Freya will help recruit and build an exciting new Youth Opera company at Glyndebourne for those aged 14-19. This project will explore arts and activism and how we can use opera and the arts to activate change in the world around us.
Nov 23 - Dec 23
Nov 23 - Dec 23
Beethoven and The Dinosaurs - Aurora Orchestra
Freya returns to direct the latest in Aurora's Far Far Away series to be shared at Kings Place, London.
Winter 23
Winter 23
Once Upon a Whispering Wood - Composer/Maker
Flock Theatre Makers will be making Theatre Royal Brighton's (ATG) festive show this year for families and young people. This show was R&D'd alongside members of Voices in Exile in 2022 and we're delighted to take it further with the Theatre Royal this Christmas.
Feb - May 24
Feb - May 24
Catch a Sea Star - Seaglass Arts
Freya will be remounting a production of Seaglass Arts' Catch A Sea Star an opera for early years families. The work will be touring the UK, Hamburg and Luxemborg.
Past Projects
2023
  • Wilderness Festival - Workshop Leader - Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists Program,
  • Woman & Machine (R&D) - Music Director - Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre and Fuel Theatre.
  • Hansel and Gretel - Royal Opera House Create and Sing - Thetford Forest
  • The Sapling - Royal Opera House Youth Opera Company - Linbury Theatre
  • Create Day - Royal Opera House Create and Sing - The Backstage Centre
  • All Together Now at Brighton Fringe
  • Macbeth R&D - Vocalist at The Globe
  • Hullaballoo Quire - CWNN at St George's Church
  • Global Music Event - Barefoot arts and CWNN - Jubilee Library
  • L'Elisir D'Amore workshops - Glyndebourne Opera
  • Making Music: WNO and BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
  • Create and Sing - Royal Opera House
2022
2021
  • Tchaikovsky and The Magical Toybox - Aurora Orchestra: Kings Place and Southbank Centre
  • Advent Sessions - Flock Theatre Makers
  • The Big Christmas Gathering - Brighton Dome - The Choir With No Name
  • As We Close Our Sleepy Eyes - The Night Vigil - Royal Opera House
  • There's A Tiger In The Garden - Flock Theatre.
  • Royal Opera House Create and Sing Building Blocks Video Resources
  • Spitalfields & WNO Skills Lab visiting trainer
  • Royal Opera House Youth Opera Company recruitment webinar.
  • Agatha and The Pirate - Aurora Orchestra, Kings Place
  • Lovely Day - Magic Me - Arts & Ages
  • Magical Music Tree - Three Villages Festival - Snappy Opera
  • Pier To Pier, Musical Director and vocalist, RAPT Theatre for Brighton Festival.
  • Royal Opera House create and sing Hansel development and delivery
  • Aldeburgh Young Musicians - Voicings Collective Residency.
  • Ospedale recordings - Filament Theatre and Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • Love Potion Number 9 - Glyndebourne Raise Your Voice
For more past projects, check out my Archive.
Ongoing Projects
In 2018, Freya was appointed Associate Artist to the Royal Opera House Youth Opera Company.
Royal Opera House Youth Opera Company
Associate Artist
Freya runs the Brighton branch of Choir With No Name, which opened in the summer of 2018. The choir is open to people who have experienced homelessness and other marginalised groups.
The Choir With No Name
Choir Director
Since 2016, Freya has run the Voicings Collective, interrogating the democracy of devising to create new works of classical music-theatre.
Voicings Collective
Co-Founder
In Jan 2019, Freya was invited to become an Associate Artist with intergenerational arts charity, Magic Me.
Magic Me
Associate Artist
Feel free to contact me

E-mail: freya@freyawynnjones.co.uk
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