TIM CLAYDON

 FREELANCE CHOREOGRAPHER and MOVEMENT DIRECTOR


Tim trained as a dancer at The Arts Educational School and worked as a classical dancer and trapeze artist for 20 years. As an aerialist he specialized in harness work and doubles trapeze .

Choreography/ Movement direction includes: I Puritani (Metropolitan Opera) Turandot (Geneva, Tokyo); Un ballo in maschera (Oslo, Copenhagen); Asrael (Bonn); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Effigies of Wickedness (The Gate); The Phoenix, La traviata, Don Carlos (Houston Grand Opera); Parsifal (Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera); Pyramus and Thisbe, Faust (Canadian Opera); L’elisir d’amore (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera North, Opera Oviedo, Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera); Madama Butterfly, Carmen (Vlaamse Opera); The Tales of Hoffmann (Malmö Opera); Belshazzar, Orfeo ed Euridice/Dido and Aeneas (Grange Festival); Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park); The Magic Flute, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, La Comte Ory, Falstaff and Giorno di Regno (Garsington Opera). La Cenerentola (Brengenzer Festspiele) For Opera North: Peter Grimes, Rusalka, The Merry Widow, La clemenza di Tito, Albert Herring, Gianni Schicchi, Andrea Chénier, The Little Greats season, The Greek Passion and Aleko. His own work includes, In Search of Youkali, a collection of Kurt Weill songs.
Directed Cosi Fan Tutte for the Vienna Opera Academy.

Currently writing the libretto for a new opera. Working with composer Jessica Maryon-Davies. Edie is based on the life story of Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's muse and first 'It' girl of the 60's. Will use her tragic story to shed some light onto the issues of young peoples mental health and search for their 15 minutes of fame.

FORTHCOMING ENGAGEMENTS:
 
NOV - DEC 2025 - Choreograph I PURITANI at NY METROPOLITAN OPERA. Dir CHARLES  EDWARDS.

JAN 2026 - Associate director/Movement director PETER GRIMES at OPERA NORTH. Dir PHYLLIDA LLOYD

MAY - JUNE 2026 - Choreograph GIULIO CESARE. Dir DAVID ALDEN