Dan Ayling

Director
Assistant Director
Location: Harringay, England, UK

Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2022 Associate Director
Theatre 		Theodora
Katie Mitchell / Royal Opera House 		Royal Opera House
2021 Director
Theatre 		The Elixir of Love
Waterperry Opera Festival 		Waterperry House & Gardens
2021 Revival Director
Theatre 		Lessons in Love & Violence
Liceu Barcelona 		Liceu Barcelona
2020 Associate Director
Theatre 		Zauberland
Katie Mitchell / CICT 		Theatre des Bouffes du Nord/World Tour
2019 Revival Director
Theatre 		Miranda
Katie Mitchell / Opera Comique 		Theatre de Caen/Opera National Bordeaux
2019 Revival Director
Theatre 		Lessons in Love and Violence
Katie Mitchell / Hamburg Staasoper 		Hamburg State Opera House
2018 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Il tabarro/Gianni Schicchi
Isabella Bywater / Den Norske Opera and Ballet 		Oslo Opera House
2018 Director
Theatre 		To See The Invisible
Aldeburgh Festival 		Snape Maltings
2018 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Lessons in Love and Violence
Katie Mitchell / Royal Opera House 		Royal Opera House
2018 Associate Director
Theatre 		Cosi fan tutte
Phelim McDermott / Metropolitan Opera 		Metropolitan Opera House
2017 Director
Theatre 		Desert Dust at the Star of Bethlehem
The Dot Collective 		Blue Elephant Theatre
2017 Director
Theatre 		The Trap
Omnibus Theatre 		Omnibus Theatre
2017 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Miranda
Katie Mitchell / Opera Comique 		Opera Comique
2017 Revival Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Bolshoi Opera 		New Stage, Bolshoi Theatre
2017 Associate Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Royal Opera House 		Royal Opera House
2016 Director
Theatre 		Gloriana
St Endellion Festival 		St Endellion Church
2016 Associate Director
Theatre 		A Christmas Carol
Phelim McDermott / Sonia Friedman Productions 		Noël Coward Theatre
2015 Associate Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Lincoln Center 		David H Koch Theater
2015 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Alcina
Katie Mitchell / Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 		Grand Theatre, Aix en Provence
2015 Director
Theatre 		Vast White Stillness
Brighton Festival 		The Old Ship Hotel
2015 Artistic Advisor
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Toronto Symphony Orchestra 		Roy Thomson Hall
2014 Director
Theatre 		Vast White Stillness
Spitalfields Music Festival 		Toynbee Hall
2014 Director
Theatre 		The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
East 15
2014 Associate Director
Theatre 		The Man Jesus
Joseph Alford / Seabright Productions Ltd 		UK Tour
2014 Director
Theatre 		Struileag
Cryptic/La Banda 		Glasgow Commonwealth Games
2014 Director
Theatre 		TöNE Festival
University of Kent 		Chatham Historic Dockyard
2014 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Cosi fan tutte
Phelim McDermott / English National Opera 		London Coliseum
2013 Director
Theatre 		Remember Me
Cryptic/Spitalfields Festival 		Glasgow/London
2013 Revival Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Opera Comique 		Opera Comique
2013 Director
Theatre 		The Maids
The Print Room 		Rehearsed Reading
2013 Director
Theatre 		The City
The Print Room 		Rehearsed Reading
2013 Revival Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Munich Staatsoper 		Prinzregententheater
2013 Revival Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Wien Festwochen 		Theater an der Wien
2013 Co-Writer/Associate Director
Theatre 		CITY Project
Norwich & Norfolk Festival 		Epic Studios, Norwich
2013 Associate Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Royal Opera House 		Royal Opera House
2013 Co-Director
Theatre 		FLOW
The Print Room 		The Print Room
2012 Revival Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse 		Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse
2012 Director
Theatre 		Remember Me
Cryptic 		Scotland Street School, Glasgow
2012 Revival Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / De Nederlandse Opera 		De Nederlandse Opera
2012 Revival Director
Theatre 		Clemency
Katie Mitchell / EIF/Scottish Opera 		Kings Theatre Edinburgh/Theatre Royal Glasgow
2012 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Written on Skin
Katie Mitchell / Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 		Grand Theatre, Aix en Provence
2012 Director
Theatre 		Notes on Death
South Bank Centre 		Purcell Room
2011 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Heart of Darkness
Edward Dick / ROH2 		Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
2011 Associate Director
Theatre 		Four Quartets
Katie Mitchell / Lincoln Center 		Clark Studio Theatre
2011 Director
Theatre 		Fewer Emergencies
The Print Room 		The Print Room
2011 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Clemency
Katie Mitchell / Royal Opera House 		Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
2010 Director
Theatre 		City of Lost Angels
The Print Room 		The Print Room
2010 Director
Theatre 		Again The Room Was Plunged Into Silence
Guildhall School of Music and Drama 		Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre
2010 Director
Theatre 		August Town
RADA 		Rehearsed Reading
2010 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Canary
Hettie Macdonald / Liverpool Playhouse/Hampstead Theatre/ETT 		Liverpool, Hampstead and UK Tour
2010 Director
Theatre 		Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
Cheekish Productions 		UK Tour/Union Theatre
2010 Director
Theatre 		Eschara
Cheekish Productions 		UK Tour/Union Theatre
2009 Director
Theatre 		Contrarotulus
Cheekish Productions 		Stantonbury Theatre
2009 Director
Theatre 		Christie in Love
Cheekish Productions 		Lion and Unicorn Theatre
2009 Director
Theatre 		Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
Cheekish Productions 		Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
2009 Director
Theatre 		Eschara
Cheekish Productions 		Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
2008 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Timon of Athens
Lucy Bailey / Shakespeare's Globe 		Shakespeare's Globe
2008 Director
Theatre 		a rose by any other name
Riverside Studios 		Rehearsed Reading
2008 Director
Theatre 		One Short Sleepe
Soho Theatre 		Rehearsed Reading
2008 Director
Theatre 		Bridge of Dreams
Almeida Projects 		Almeida Theatre
2007 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Moon on a Stick
ROH2 		Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
2007 Director
Theatre 		Global Plays Project
Hampstead Theatre 		Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
2007 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Grumpy Old Women Live
Hannah Chissick / Avalon 		UK Tour
2007 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Side by Side by Sondheim
Hannah Chissick / NML Productions 		The Venue, Leicester Square
2007 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Don't Look Now
Lucy Bailey / Sheffield Theatres/Lyric Hammersmith 		Sheffield Crucible/Lyric Hammersmith
2007 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Comfort Me With Apples
Lucy Bailey / Hampstead Theatre 		UK Tour
2006 Director
Theatre 		Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Arcola Theatre 		Arcola Theatre
2006 Director
Theatre 		The Kiss
Hampstead Theatre 		Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
2006 Director
Theatre 		A Number
Birkbeck College 		Birkbeck College
2006 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Tales from Hollywood
Ian Grieve / Perth Rep Theatre 		Perth Theatre
2005 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Comfort Me With Apples
Lucy Bailey / Hampstead Theatre 		Hampstead Theatre
2005 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Nathan the Wise
Tony Clark / Hampstead Theatre 		Hampstead Theatre
2005 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Fair
Helen Eastman / Floodtide 		The Finborough
2004 Assistant Director
Theatre 		Mary Stuart
Annie Tyson / Drama Centre, London 		Cochrane Theatre

Education

Year Qualification Where
2013 SITI Suzuki & Viewpoints Training Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth
2009 Viewpoints Experiment Lab, led by Darragh McKeon Young Vic
2006 MFA Theatre Directing Birkbeck College
2001 BA (Hons) Stage Management and Technical Theatre Guildhall School of Music and Drama
1998 3 A-Levels Alton College
1996 9 GCSE's Amery Hill School

Equipment

My Equipment/Kit:

I can use:

About me

www.danayling.com
Additional skills:
Dramaturgy
Movement

Grade 8 Piano
Intermediate Tap Dancing
Elementary Ballet
Industry awards:
Runner Up, JMK Young Theatre Diretor's Award, 2007
Referees:
Lucy Bailey
Cathie Boyd
Katie Mitchell

License & Passport

Driver's License: Yes

Skills

Secondary Job Title Assistant Director
Job Titles Director, 1st AD (Assistant Director), Stage Manager
Years in industry 6+ years
Organisations / Memberships AGMA (US), Equity (UK)
Work Permits EU