Wild Productions

Belinda Wild

 

Belinda Wild began as an actor, touring theatre and non-theatre venues throughout England and Ireland. She later directed for Community Arts Workshop in Manchester before becoming a drama lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

 

She settled permanently in Ireland in 1991 and set up Janus Theatre Company. She went on to direct a diverse range of plays from Romeo and Juliet and The Elephant Man at the Everyman Palace to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Cork Opera House. She directed three Ian Wild musical comedies for the Cork Midsummer Festival: Marco Polo’s Toilet Brush, Reds Under the Beds and Spaghetti Western. From 2000 to 2007 Belinda directed the Shakespeare programme for Cork Opera House, staging Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear and Othello. Her critically acclaimed production of Lifeboat toured many venues around Ireland. From 2006, she was engaged by Opera 2005 as Education Officer. In this role she edited and directed touring versions of three operas: The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni and The Masked Ball.

 

Belinda teaches Theatre Performance at Kinsale College, where she has been instrumental in the design and building of an amphitheatre based on the Globe Theatre. The Amphitheatre (This Wooden O) has been the inspiration for much experimental work on plays such as The Government Inspector, A Flea in Her Ear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano De Bergerac, Hair, The Milk of Human Kindness, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Chicago, The Hypochondriac, She Stoops to Conquer, The Shaugraun– amongst others. Most recently she has directed, Three Ladies and a Suitcase, for Opera Trio, Voce di Donna and Dindon’s Lovers, an adaptation of a Mirbeau farce for Gulliver’s Travelling Theatre. Belinda has run workshops and taught at many institutions in Ireland and the UK and has been a regular tutor for the Drama League of Ireland both at their annual summer school and with groups around the country.