CAST AND PRODUCTION

THE CREATIVES

Stefan Paul Sanchez

Producer and Artistic Director

Artistic Director European Chamber Opera & Grand Opera Thailand Stefan maintains a balanced career as an international opera singer, producer, director, and lecturer. He has toured throughout most of the Western and Eastern world. He formed The European Chamber Opera in 1992. Stefan studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, London, graduating with distinction. His teachers include: Ilse Wolf -the UK’s most celebrated Lieder Singer, Dame Janet Baker, Gerard Suzay, Teresa Berganza, Monserrat Caballe. He has worked with conductors such as: Sir Simon Rattle, Steuart Bedford, Colin Davis, Sir Malcolm Sargent among others. He also studied at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid. In 1998 Stefan was greatly honoured with the award of Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for his prestigious international work with singers.

Napisi Reyes

Stage Director

Napisi Reyes has been actively involved in the field of Musical Theatre as a stage director, musical book writer, and lyricist. Her works include; Working as Director / lyricist/song writer for The Toothless Shark, the musical ,Oodid and the Magic Picky Bank , Dearest Moon , Oodid and the Magic Picky Bank series2: the forgetful Mice, Eng and Chang , the musical version 1. She adapted and wrote many scripts for Thai musicals: Seasons Change , the musical, Phaya Khong Phaya Phan.

She worked as a stage director for a musical that won the award “ The Best Musical” from the Bangkok Theatre Festival in 2017 : 21 3/4 The musical, (Thonglor Art Space).

Her works as a director, Musical book writer and lyricist include :Love, Life, Sex and Politically Incorrect, Mr.Dictionary, Amelia, a Mystery of 157 -337.

Darren Royston

Choreographer and Movement Director

Darren has worked in theatre, musicals, opera, film and television. He is the artistic director of Nonsuch History & Dance, Chairman of the Early Dance Circle, a council member for the Unesco International Dance Council, drama consultant at the Laban Guild for Movement and Dance, and is an Associate Tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He is also a freelance dance consultant working in theatres including the National Theatre and the Old Vic.