Alan Brodie, Lighting Designer

Pacific Opera Victoria
Capriccio
February - March, 2010

Alan Brodie made his Pacific Opera Victoria debut as lighting designer for the Canadian premiere of Marc Blitzstein's Regina in April 2008. He returns in February 2010 as lighting designer for Capriccio.

Regarded as one of Canada's top theatrical lighting designers, Vancouver native Alan Brodie has worked across Canada for companies that include Neptune Theatre (Halifax), Canadian Opera Company (Toronto), National Ballet of Canada, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage Co. (Toronto), Soulpepper Theatre Co. (Toronto), Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg), Globe Theatre (Regina), Theatre Calgary, The Citadel (Edmonton), Playhouse (Vancouver), Arts Club, Vancouver Opera and Belfry Theatre (Victoria). 

Brodie has been nominated for numerous theatre awards, including Jessie Richardson, Sterling, Betty Mitchell and Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and received Jessie Richardson Awards for lighting design for Diplomacy, Mary's Wedding and Art and a Jessie Award and a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for The Overcoat. 

His body of work includes designs for new plays and operas, classical and contemporary drama, musical theatre and dance. His opera credits include, for Vancouver Opera: Norma, The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Magic Flute, Madama Butterfly, Threepenny Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Barber of Seville, The Daughter of the Regiment, La Traviata, L'Elisir d'Amore and The Marriage of Figaro; for Modern Baroque Opera: Ino, The Diana Cantata, 120 Songs For the Marquis de Sade and The Choice of Hercules; for Festival Vancouver: The Coronation of Poppea, Game Misconduct and L'Orfeo; for The Canadian Opera Company: The Turn of the Screw; for Opera Atelier: Acteon, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; and for Vancouver New Music: The Gang. 

Brodie's lighting has been described as “notably assured”, “razor-sharp”, “stunning”, “subtle”, “seamless”, “fine”, “starkly dramatic”, “exceptional”, “striking”, “wildly active”, “affecting” and “ingenious”.  A member of the Associated Designers of Canada, Brodie holds a BFA in theatre studies from the University of British Columbia.

December 2009