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Brenna Corner has worked as a director, actor, singer, choreographer, and fight director across Canada, the United States and Europe. Brenna has been a member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program with Vancouver Opera as well as the Atlanta Studio Artist Program. Ms. Corner is also the artistic director of Manitoba Underground Opera in Winnipeg, Canada.

Brenna made her directorial mainstage debut creating a new production of _Hansel and Gretel_ designed by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop for Vancouver Opera_._ That same year she also made her American debut with New Orleans Opera creating a new production of _Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street_. Since them Ms. Corner has been directing and creating shows across the United States and Canada.

Select directing projects include: _Don Giovanni (_Seattle Opera); _Hansel and Gretel_ (San Diego Opera); _Pygmalion_ and _Sweeney Todd_ (New Orleans Opera); _Der fliegende Höllander_ (Cincinnati Opera); _L’Elisir d’Amore_ (Vancouver Opera); _Carmen_ (The Atlanta Opera); _Noye’s Fludd_ and _Scalia/Ginsburg_ (Glimmerglass Festival); _L’Elisir d’Amore_ (Vancouver Opera) _The Four Note Opera_ (Yulanda M. Faris Vancouver Opera Young Artist Program), _Cendrillon & La Clemenza_ _di Tito_ (Manitoba Underground Opera), _Béatrice et Benedict_ (Fraser Lyric Opera), _Die Lustig Witwe_ (Vancouver Music Academy) . Select assistant directing projects include: _The Siege of Calais, La Boheme_ (Glimmerglass Opera Festival)_; Carmen_ (Canadian Opera Company); _Madama Butterfly,_ and _Stickboy,_ (Vancouver Opera), _Der Fliegende Hollander_ and _L’Italiana in Algeri_ (Calgary Opera).

She is also a certified member of Fight Directors Canada and has choreographed many fights for both opera and theatre. Brenna has a degree in music from The University of Manitoba, and theatre diplomas from Grant MacEwan College and The British American Drama Academy.