Director & Choreographer
Photo: Alp Ilyas Klanten
Contact: crispinlord [at] gmail [dot] com
Crispin is a British director and choreographer of Music-Theater, Opera and Performance working in Germany. Through his performance work he considers music as a body-based practice, researching collective tasking, image building, translation, and aesthetics of access. He is Vice-Chairperson of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik.
After studying Music at Durham University, he completed a performance-based research Masters (SODA: Solo/Dance/Authorship) from the Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrum Tanz (HZT) and UdK Berlin, receiving a Distinction for his final performance. In 2025 Crispin was awarded the stART-up Stipendium from the Claussen-Simon Stiftung, a mentorship under stage director Joe Hill-Gibbins from the Genesis Foundation and was named as a Resident Artist with the Britten Pears Foundation.
His credits include, as Director: Queen of Love, Komische Oper Berlin / Schall & Rausch Festival; Resurrection (A Bad Copy), Ufer Studios Berlin; La Boheme (revival), English National Opera; PREPARE IT (MY BODY), Barbican Pit Theatre; A Father is Looking For His Daughter, Cockpit Theatre.
As Choreographer/Movement Director: The Alonetimes, Musica Festival Strasbourg; Die Ausflüge des Herrn Broucek, Bregenzer Festspiele; Belshazzar, Komische Oper Berlin; Dollhouse, Staatsoper Hamburg.
As Performer: Judith in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, English National Opera (nominated for Olivier Award 2025); River, Heizhaus Berlin; I FURIOSI, Ufer Studios; Inside Outside, HfS Ernst Busch.
Crispin has been a Staff Director with English National Opera since 2018 and works freelance as an Assistant Director in Europe (including Komische Oper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Grange Festival), working with the likes of Yuval Sharon, David Alden, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Annilese Miskimmon and Herbert Fritsch.
Crispin speaks English and German.