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flag Director Simon Stone to helm Finnish opera *Innocence* at NYC’s Met and direct film *Elsinore*, based on Ian Charleson.

flag Australian director Simon Stone, known for reimagining classics like Chekhov and Ibsen, is set to direct the Finnish opera *Innocence* about school shooting trauma at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and his fourth film, *Elsinore*, a biopic about actor Ian Charleson, who played Hamlet before dying of AIDS. flag His 2024 Seoul production of *The Cherry Orchard* is touring to Adelaide, continuing his global work that centers on women confronting trauma and identity. flag Stone, who divides his time between London and Vienna with his family, draws on personal grief and bullying experiences to create emotionally intense, psychologically complex stories.

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