Directing Resume
Acis and Galatea named One of Vancouver’s Best Operas of 2017
Nigredo Hotel named One of Vancouver’s Best ‘Most Challenging Experiments’ of 2018:
“Holding it all together with adroit timing, placement and character interaction was Alan Corbishley’s intelligent and insightful direction.” Opera Canada, 2018, review of Nigredo Hotel, City Opera Vancouver.
“He is the rare stage director whose embodied knowledge as a highly experienced musical performer animates his cast and turns the stage into a living space of discovery and wonder. With small budgets and short timeframes or large budgets and expansive schedules, his flexible inventiveness makes magic.” Rena Sharon, Vancouver International Song Institute
“Alan Corbishley’s direction was fluid, playful and dark by turns…and introducing a concept of the opera more dramatically compelling than the original… (and) an auspicious production from a new troupe in town.” Vancouver Classical Music, review of Handel’s Acis and Galatea, 2017
“Satie de Paris was poetry on stage” Kamloops Daily News
Future:
Angel’s Bone, opera by Du Yun, Co-Stage Director + Co-Producer, Sound the Alarm & re:Naissance Opera
Light Killed the Beasts, new sound/theatre commission, Stage Director + Producer, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen BWV 56, Co-Film Director, Co-Producer, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre & Early Music Vancouver
Music of the Night: The Concert Tour, Creator, Producer, Sound the Alarm (Alberta/BC/Lower Mainland)
2021:
Ich Habe Genug BWV 82, Stage Director, Co-Producer, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre & Early Music Vancouver
Theatre for the Ears, Creative Director, Producer, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre
A Night at the Opera, Stage Director/Performer, City Opera Vancouver & Chutzpah Festival
2020:
Berlin: The Last Cabaret, Alan Corbishley co-Creator and Stage Director, City Opera Vancouver and PuSH Festival
Dido and Aeneas, Stage Director, Vancouver Academy of Music
2019:
Music of the Night: The Concert Tour , Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre (BC)
Captain Lovelock, by John Duke, Stage Director, Vancouver Academy of Music
2018:
Nigredo Hotel, Gotham; Stage Director, City Opera Vancouver (Review)
Side by Side, Sondheim; Stage Director, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre
Scarlatti Cantatas, Stage Director
2017:
Acis and Galatea, Handel (2017); Stage Director, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre & re:Naissance Opera
· Reviews: Vancouver’s Best Operas 2017and Opera Canada
La Chatte Metamorphosee en Femme, Offenbach, Stage Director and Designer
Fables, Rorem, Stage Director
A Hand of Bridge, Barber, Stage Director
A Sunday Excursion, Wilder, Stage Director
2016:
The Lost Operas of Mozart, City Opera Vancouver; Stage Director and Conceptual Designer; Opera Canada
Elegies, William Finn; Vancouver Academy of Music
Bad Date: A Cautionary Tale; BC Living Arts, Stage Director, Dramaturge
The Women, Pasatieri; Stage Director
I Can’t Stand Wagner, Barab; Stage Director
The Ruined Maid, Barab; Stage Director
The Weill Project, Weill; Stage Director
2015:
Abraham and Isaac, Britten; Stage Director, Vancouver Academy of Music
Sea Dream,Wensley; Stage Director, Vancouver Academy of Music
Love, L. Cohen; BC Living Arts, Stage Director, Production Design, Producer
2014:
Dragging Piaf; Filmmaker, Editor, Producer, Designer, Director; Review
Silent Chap, by Alan Corbishley; Western Canada Theatre/BC Living Arts. Playwright, Stage Director and Sound Designer (construction of musical score). A 90-minute silent play based on the life and artistry of Charles Chaplin. World Premiere at Western Canada Theatre Mainstage Season, February 2014 Dramaturgy by Kevin Kerr (Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Electric Company and Governor General Award Winner for Drama for his play Unity 1918)
Production sample video http://youtu.be/JpJi4WUm7gQ
2013:
Webley aWaits; BC Living Arts, Set/Lighting Designer, Stage Director, Story Author, Producer
Merry Me a Little, by Sondheim; BC Living Arts, Stage Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer, and Producer
Missed Connections (Sysco), Director/Designer, Vancouver International Song InstituteLady Macbeth (Pasatieri), Director/Designer, Vancouver International Song Institute
2012:
Shakespeare’s Kingdom, Director/Designer, Vancouver International Song Institute
September Songs, Creator/Author, Set Designer, Stage Director, Producer
2011:
Western Canada Summer Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies
· Production Designer, Author of Igniting the Spirit of Western Canada, Stage Director, Co-Producer
· For a review, please visit http://tinyurl.com/l4outjb
Canadian Cabaret III, Stage Director, Designer, Author
The Man Who Shot Chance Delany, by Ian Wier, Assistant Director (Western Canada Theatre – World Premiere)
2010:
Hermit Songs (Barber), Director/Designer, Vancouver International Song Institute
Canadian Cabaret II, Stage Director, Designer, Author
2009:
Canadian Cabaret I, Stage Director, Designer, Author
Satie de Paris, Co-Author, Designer, Stage Director, Producer
· Critique: “Satie de Paris was Poetry on Stage”
2008:
Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut, Cantata BWV 199 (J.S. Bach) Stage Director and Designer
Metaxu, Creator, Set Designer, Producer, and Director/Dramaturge
An original 30 minute ‘modern’ dance work in collaboration with The Tomorrow Collective
Critique: “Conceptual blends create dance magic!” “two dancers shape shifted into one during an innovative dance performance . . . It wasn’t magic – not the paranormal sort, at least – but a conceptual blend of movement, light, sound and video that created the powerful illusion in Metaxu.” (Kamloops Daily News)
2006:
Dichterliebe (Schumann), Performer and Stage Director
Ich Habe Genug, Cantata BWV 82 (J.S. Bach), Performer and Stage Director