Giselle Ty

Director

I am a theater and opera director who specializes in interdisciplinary, experimental, and site-specific work. Whether involving unusual spaces, uncanny collaborations, foreign languages, or bold source material, challenging projects are something I look, for and I am committed to making work that is aesthetically visceral, intellectually challenging, and emotionally unafraid.

Having lived in the US, UK, Philippines and France, and having grown up in a Chinese-Buddhist/Spanish-Filipino-Catholic household, I see both the familiar and the foreign in most places and have a unique anchor into a mosaic of languages and experiences.

Credits

DIRECTOR Le Rossignol / Erwartung, West Edge Opera 2023

DIRECTOR Cavalleria Rusticana, Boston Lyric Opera 2021

ASSISTANT (STAFF) DIRECTOR, Die Zauberflöte, Royal Opera House, 2019.

DIRECTOR, The Late Wedding, NYU Tisch School of Drama, 2019.

DIRECTOR, Prima La Musica e Poi Le Parole + La Canterina, Simpson College, 2019.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Die Walküre, Opéra National de Bordeaux, 2019.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Il Trovatore, Royal Opera House 2017.

Training

SITI Company (Viewpoints/Suzuki), École Jacques Lecoq, Northwestern University (bachelor's degree, music and art history, coursework in theater), Harvard University/American Repertory Theatre (coursework in theater)

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Curating
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Writing

Additional Languages

French (fluent), German (C1), Italian (B2/C1), Spanish

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