Syd Ralph’s productions have featured at the Savoy Theatre, the English National Opera and on a BBC2 documentary filmed inside Wandsworth Prison.

Amongst her professional credits are the following productions: West Side Story (Pimlico Opera), Goodnight Mr Tom (Buxton Opera House), Guys and Dolls (Pimlico Opera), Under Milkwood (Orpheus Theatre), Sirens (Sounds New Festival, Canterbury), Noyes Fludde ( Covent Garden Festival), Company (Manchester Library Theatre), Godspell (Young Vic), Jumpers (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Dahl Stew (Britten Sinfonia), One Two (English National Opera), Dido and Aeneas and The Ephesian Matron (Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury), Sweet Charity (Gulbenkian Theatre), Barnum (Epsom Playhouse),The Pirates of Penzance (Leatherhead Theatre), A Chorus Line and Sweeney Todd (Sevenoaks Playhouse), Murderous Instincts (Savoy Theatre, London), Annie (Leatherhead Theatre) and the premiere of the opera, Promised Land (Marlowe Theatre) for the Canterbury Festival.

Syd has worked as a freelance director for the National Youth Music Theatre and was a founding Artistic Associate of Youth Music Theatre UK, for whom she co-wrote and directed Amy’s Wedding and the Neil Sedaka musical, Oh! Carol. This year she returns to direct the YMT Belfast production of The Chosen Room, written by award-winning playwright, Marie Jones and Musical Director / Composer Mark Dougherty.

After directing a production of Orpheus-the Mythical, written by Richard Stilgoe and playing at the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House in July, she returns to rehearsals of the two-hander, The Last Five Years, for performance in September.

Previous projects with YMT:

• Amy’s Wedding (2004) – Director
• Let It Snow Again – Director
• Studio Belfast (2006) – Director
• Oh! Carol (2007) – Director
• The Chosen Room (2008) – Director
• Let It Snow (2008) – Director