PJ is an award-winning British opera director.
Since being listed as “one to watch” by the BBC in 2015, his work has taken him across Europe including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Swedish Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Norwegian National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera and Polish National Opera.
In 2024 PJ co-founded the arts charity coalign with Hannah Kumari on a mission to create more new writing in opera.
Credits include: Gianni Schicchi, Simon Boccanegra – Concert Staging, Brundibár, Salome (Opera North); Götterdämmerung (London Philharmonic Orchestra); Idomeneo, L’étoile (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Gods of The Game: a Football Opera (Grange Park Opera, Sky Arts); La bohème (ENO); Vespers (Garsington Opera); Cupboard Love, Riders to the Sea, The Cunning Little Vixen (Byre Opera); Eugene Onegin (Rhosygilwen Opera); Eugene Onegin (Garsington Opera – Alvarez Young Artists); La Voix Humaine (The Forge, Camden).
As Revival/Associate Director: Billy Budd (Finnish National Opera, Polish National Opera); Jenůfa (Royal Swedish Opera, Den Jyske Opera, Aarhus).
