Cinzia hardy

Cinzia is a theatre maker, stage director and creative producer working in live performance and site specific theatre.

She founded the multi-award-winning Northumberland-based performing arts company, November Club, where she directed and produced many of the company’s productions, most notably: The Novocastrian Philosophers’ Club and We Got Mittens Too! at the Lit & Phil, Newcastle; Food and Feuds: Two Cooks of Hexham at Blackfriars Cookery School, Queen’s Hall Cafe Hexham and at Hexham Abbey; Beyond the End of the Road, the award winning musical at Hexham Auction Mart and regional tour; Dr Mullins’ Anatomy of the Theatre Royal at the Theatre Royal Newcastle; Traces & Graces for Heritage Open Days at Whalton Manor House Garden; Twelfth Day with the Delavals at Seaton Delaval Hall; Teacups, Zebras and Dancing Kaisers, Operation Pied Piper and many other productions for National Trust’s Wallington. Cinzia left November Club in 2021 to work freelance and establish ClassicsFest, a new Cultural Festival based at the Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne in collaboration with Newcastle University’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology.