Award Winning Director Cameron Menzies is CEO and Artistic Director of Northern Ireland Opera. He has directed opera, theatre, music-theatre, cabaret and film.  He has worked for Shakespeare’s Globe, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Diva Opera UK, Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, Short Black Opera Company, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. A Helpmann and Green Room Award nominee.  His film Old Friends and Other Days won the 2022 Paris Short Film Festival for Best Production/Costume Design, Best Short Narrative and Best “First Time” Director, the film also won the Best Short Feature for the London International Short Film Festival 21 and a Madrid Art Film award.  Cameron’s most recent credits are the acclaimed production of La Traviata in the Grand Opera House Belfast and The Salon Series touring across Northern Ireland over 36 dates. Into the Woods has just been nominated for three Irish Times, Theatre awards for Best Director, Best Production and Best Set.