Tim Carroll began his career with the English Shakespeare Company before becoming associate director of the Northcott Theatre in Exeter (1994-5). From 1999 to 2005, he was associate director of Shakespeare's Globe where he directed Twelfth Night, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest, among others. His first opera production, Britten's The Prodigal Son, was for Kent Opera in 1994. He is now director of productions for Kent Opera, for whom he has staged Purcell in the Theatre, Monteverdi's Orfeo , Handel's Acis and Galatea and Britten's Albert Herring. He last worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 2005 on a semi-staged production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.