Hannah Calascione
Director
Hannah Calascione is a Maltese-English stage director, facilitator and creative learning practitioner based in London. She won an OffWestEnd Award in 2020 for ‘All the Little Lights’ and ‘Best Director’ at Bitesize Festival in 2024 for ‘Knives and Forks’. She holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck College. Her co-creation work with young people and community groups has been shown at Lyric Hammersmith, Barbican, and HOME, and her directing work has been staged at Camden People’s Theatre, Hope Theatre, Riverside Studios, Tristan Bates, Gilden Balloo and Sadler’s Wells. She makes interdisciplinary work with her company TOO MUCH, and has developed her practice on residencies with Camden People’s Theatre (Starting Blocks), Second Movement (Rough for Opera), and City University. In 2023, she was a finalist at Opera Europa/Opera Lombardia’s under 35 director’s competition at Teatro Como in Italy, and in 2025 she was nominated for the 2026 Artist Foundation Futures Awards. She is a reader for the Bruntwood Prize and Women’s Prize for Playwriting, after spending 3 years reading for film / TV company Potboiler Productions. She recently received funding via Develop Your Creative Practice to make meaningful steps towards making music theatre and opera in Europe.
For Mahogany Opera: Snappy Operas
