Leo Doulton is a writer and director working in opera and interactive theatre. Leo studied at University College London (BA History) and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (MA Opera Making).
As a director, Leo has been a 2022 JMK Award Finalist, a 2022 Opera Awards Foundation Bursary recipient, and was longlisted for the 2019 Offie Award for Best Opera. In 2023, Leo was appointed Associate Creative Director of Lemon Difficult.
As a writer-director, highlights include contributions to Voidspace Festival (Theatre Deli, 2024), Paradise Craved (Theatre Deli, 2023), Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (Virtually Opera, 2022; Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021), and a decade-long relationship with University College London academics leading creative outreach projects.
Other directing highlights include A Scary Place To Exist (Grimfest, 2023), Macbeth (York Shakespeare Project, 2021), Der Zar lässt sich Photographieren (Bloomsbury Theatre, 2019), and assisting Max Hoehn on L’elisir d’amore (Longborough Festival Opera, 2023).
Leo’s writing has been supported by a 2023 Theatre Deli Classic Residency and a 2021 Britten Pears Foundation Creative Retreat. Highlights include libretti and translations for the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, and Grimeborn. The interactive novel Rites of Angels will be published by Voidspace Press in late 2024.