Director & Choreographer
Photo: Alp Ilyas Klanten
Contact: crispinlord [at] gmail [dot]
Crispin is a Berlin-based director, choreographer and performer from London. Through his performance work he considers music as a body-based practice, with a particular focus on collective tasking, methods of translation and interpretation, and aesthetics of access. He is Co-Founder of Music-Theatre collective Slung Jugs and Vice-Chairperson of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik.
After studying Music at Durham Univeristy, he received a Masters in Performance Making from the Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrum Tanz (HZT) and UdK Berlin, receiving a Distinction for his final performance. In 2025 Crispin was awarded a Stipendium for his directing work 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. In 2026 he was on the winning team of the NOperas Prize for experimental Music-Theatre, as Co-Director.
His credits include, as Director: Queen of Love, Komische Oper Berlin (Schall & Rausch), La Boheme (revival), English National Opera, PREPARE IT (MY BODY), Barbican Pit Theatre; Resurrection (A Bad Copy) and Stop Me When You’ve Had Enough, Ufer Studios Berlin; A Father is Looking For His Daughter, Cockpit Theatre. As Choreographer: Dollhouse, Staatsoper Hamburg. As Curator: Digital Bodies at Candid Arts Trust. As Dramaturg: Cash n Prizes, Volksbühne Roter Salon. 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 David Alden, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Annilese Miskimmon and Herbert Fritsch.
Crispin speaks English and German.