Edwina Strobl

Director

Edwina (Eddy) Strobl is an Australian/Austrian theatre and opera director who grew up in Sydney. It was at the Sydney Opera House that as a child she caught the ‘bug’ for theatre After appearing in a children’s chorus at the Sydney Opera House that young Eddy, caught the ‘theatre bug’. These early experiences left a lasting appreciation of the power of storytelling.

After studying History at University College London, Edwina trained in directing and dramaturgy at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Her early professional life began on the UK’s fringe theatre scene, directing and producing new writing, sketch comedy and cabaret. Working with singers in the opera world reignited her interest her desire to move between the operatic and theatrical worlds.

Edwina’s opera experience has included training with Katie Mitchell, Directing Johnathan Dove’s opera, Itch, as Young Artist Associate Director at Opera Holland Park and becoming a 2025 finalist for the Jette Parker Young Artist programme at Royal Ballet and Opera.

Other work has included adapting and directing Giulio Cesare for Somerset Opera, directing a new comedy about AI and the music industry at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, devising a ‘thopera’ with non-binary performers and assisting on large productions at the Staatsoper Hannover and Schauspielhaus Zurich.

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Experience

Giulio Cesare – Somerset Opera (2025)
Time and Time Again – Sidmouth Play Festival (2025)
Itch – Opera Holland Park, as Young Artist Director (2025)
Opera Scenes – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2023 & 2024)
MUSIC – Pleasance Theatre (2023)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (2023) – Somerset Opera (2023)
Le dernier sorcier – Gothic Opera (2022)
NewsRevue – Canal Cafe Theatre (2019 & 2022)
L’Elisir d’Amore and La Cenerentola – Red Earth Opera (2020 & 2021)
N89– Matchstick Theatre(2019)

Assistant director:
La Fanciulla del West – Opera Holland Park (2026)
Pagliacci  – Opera Holland Park (2024)
Carmen  – Schauspielhaus Zurich (2024)
Nixon in China – Staatsoper Hannover (2023)
Candide – Blackheath Halls Opera (2022)
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – Royal Opera House (2020)