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Roxana Haines
From: Bristol, England. LA Opera: associate director for Ainadamar (2025, debut).
Roxana Haines is a theater and opera director based in Glasgow. She was the resident staff director at Scottish Opera 2018-2023, during which time she directed an acclaimed outdoor production of La Boheme (5* The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Scotsman), productions of L’Elisir d’Amore and Così fan tutte for camera, and a number of semi-staged productions. Roxana has worked throughout Europe and in America, including associate director roles at Detroit Opera and Welsh National Opera (Golijov's Ainadamar). She has assisted directors including Sir David McVicar, Katie Mitchell, Deborah Colker, John Fulljames, Phelim McDermott and Dominic Hill, at companies including Scottish Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Garsington, Opera Holland Park.
Roxana’s work in opera initially arose from her interest in collaboration and interdisciplinary work. She has training in devising, puppetry and physical theatre, including an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her recent theater productions include Burning Bright in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Sweeney Todd in Huddersfield and she was also the associate director for an immersive Peaky Blinders experience on the South Bank in London. Roxana was the assistant puppetry director for Circus 1903 (Significant Object) with life-size elephant puppets that toured America and Australia.
Roxana has a deep commitment to outreach, learning and participation work. For her, this is as significant as creating main stage productions and she always looks to integrate the two. During her time at Scottish Opera she devised a series of original productions for their education department: Fox-tot! was created for toddlers 12 to 24 months with integrated BSL, and Rubble written by Johnny McKnight and Gareth Williams for the Scottish Opera Young Company. Other work in this area includes creative leadership roles for Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera, National Opera Studio, Bloomsbury Festival and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. She has also directed shows with the opera students at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Clonter. She has worked most frequently with care-experienced young people, those living with dementia and refugees and asylum seekers. Roxana also works for the Creativity and Care project within Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s largest creative writing retreat centre.
Roxana has always been drawn to stories about healing and recovery and her most rewarding projects have balanced therapeutic work, engagement and social change. For five years Roxana worked with Reconstruct, training professionals working with children in the care system focusing on child psychology, attachment theories and creating a more child-centred practice. She has been working at the cusp of dramatherapy over the past few years, incorporating therapeutic techniques into her practice and rehearsal rooms, and from September 2023 she will undertake an MSc in Dramatherapy at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh to deepen her training in this area and commit to telling stories in this way.
Learn more at RoxanaHaines.com.
Roxana Haines is a theater and opera director based in Glasgow. She was the resident staff director at Scottish Opera 2018-2023, during which time she directed an acclaimed outdoor production of La Boheme (5* The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Scotsman), productions of L’Elisir d’Amore and Così fan tutte for camera, and a number of semi-staged productions. Roxana has worked throughout Europe and in America, including associate director roles at Detroit Opera and Welsh National Opera (Golijov's Ainadamar). She has assisted directors including Sir David McVicar, Katie Mitchell, Deborah Colker, John Fulljames, Phelim McDermott and Dominic Hill, at companies including Scottish Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Garsington, Opera Holland Park.
Roxana’s work in opera initially arose from her interest in collaboration and interdisciplinary work. She has training in devising, puppetry and physical theatre, including an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her recent theater productions include Burning Bright in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Sweeney Todd in Huddersfield and she was also the associate director for an immersive Peaky Blinders experience on the South Bank in London. Roxana was the assistant puppetry director for Circus 1903 (Significant Object) with life-size elephant puppets that toured America and Australia.
Roxana has a deep commitment to outreach, learning and participation work. For her, this is as significant as creating main stage productions and she always looks to integrate the two. During her time at Scottish Opera she devised a series of original productions for their education department: Fox-tot! was created for toddlers 12 to 24 months with integrated BSL, and Rubble written by Johnny McKnight and Gareth Williams for the Scottish Opera Young Company. Other work in this area includes creative leadership roles for Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera, National Opera Studio, Bloomsbury Festival and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. She has also directed shows with the opera students at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Clonter. She has worked most frequently with care-experienced young people, those living with dementia and refugees and asylum seekers. Roxana also works for the Creativity and Care project within Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s largest creative writing retreat centre.
Roxana has always been drawn to stories about healing and recovery and her most rewarding projects have balanced therapeutic work, engagement and social change. For five years Roxana worked with Reconstruct, training professionals working with children in the care system focusing on child psychology, attachment theories and creating a more child-centred practice. She has been working at the cusp of dramatherapy over the past few years, incorporating therapeutic techniques into her practice and rehearsal rooms, and from September 2023 she will undertake an MSc in Dramatherapy at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh to deepen her training in this area and commit to telling stories in this way.
Learn more at RoxanaHaines.com.