Thomas is an award-winning director, Artistic Director at Finnish National Opera, and Founder of Australia’s innovative site-specific opera company Lost & Found Opera, hailed as “the nation’s most innovative opera company” (Opera Magazine, 2017). Credits include productions for Canadian Opera Company, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera Ireland, Wexford Opera Festival, and New Zealand Opera as General Director.   Other credits include theatre productions in the UK, Belgium, Romania and the commissioning and development in Ireland of plays by new Irish writers on contemporary social themes.

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He is also internationally renowned for his expertise in performing arts training and education. He is the author of the ground-breaking work ‘The Singing and Acting Handbook’ (published Routledge). As such, he is a frequent visiting artist at universities and conservatories.

He is passionately interested in the relationship between audience and performer; and committed to finding new audiences through the limitless potential of the arts and creative industries to help forge a community’s identity and give it voice.