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date = "2015-04-06T22:09:00-04:00"
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title = "Ashlie Corcoran"
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	Originally from White Rock, British Columbia, Ashlie directs both theatre and opera, working across Canada and internationally.
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	Ashlie is the Artistic Director Designate at Thousand Island Playhouse, and will take up the position at the end of the 2012 season.
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	As Artistic Producer of Theatre Smash, she has directed Abi Morgan's<em> Tiny Dynamite</em>, the company's Dora-nominated inaugural production, the staged reading of Lukas Bärfuss's <em>The Bus</em>, co-produced by Theatre Smash and the Goethe-Institut, Layne Coleman's <em>Tijuana Cure</em>, Graeme Gillis's<em> A Boy Called Newfoundland</em> and Marius Von Mayenburg's<em> The Ugly One</em>. In addition, Ashlie produced Theatre Smash's second main stage production Norway.
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	A former Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio intern director, Ashlie directed the COC's production of William Walton's <em>The Bear</em>, the school tour of <em>Cinderella</em> (original production and remount) and <em>Isis and The Seven Scorpions</em>. She has apprentice directed <em>Ring Cycle</em>, <em>Faust</em> and <em>La Traviata</em> and assistant directed <em>Tosca</em>, <em>Don Giovanni</em>, <em>Fidelio</em>, <em>Idomeneo</em> and <em>The Magic Flute</em> at the COC. Overseas, she has worked as assistant director in the UK for Opera North's productions of <em>Fidelio</em> and <em>Roméo et Juliette</em>, as well as <em>Der Fliegende Holländer</em> at the Städtische Bühnen Münster. Ashlie was the assistant director for <em>Barber of Seville</em> at Vancouver Opera.
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	Ashlie was one of the Shaw Festival Director Interns for the 2009 season. At Shaw, Ashlie directed Seán O'Casey's <em>Bedtime Story</em> and assistant directed <em>Brief Encounters</em> (directed by Jackie Maxwell) and <em>Albertine in Five Times</em> (directed by Micheline Chevrier).
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	Other directing credits include:<em> The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee</em>, Western Canada Theatre; <em>Die Fledermaus</em>, Cowtown Opera; <em>The Gay Heritage Project</em>, Buddies in Bad Times' Rhubarb Festival; <em>The Venetian Ball</em>, Villa Charities Opera &amp; Pop Gala; <em>Third Floor</em>, Summerworks Festival; <em>Short Story Long</em>, Toronto Fringe Festival (invited to Best of the Fest Berkeley and Uptown); <em>The Secret Garden</em> &amp; <em>The Jungle Book,</em> Resurgence Theatre; <em>Tijuana Cure</em> for Summerworks Festival; <em>Luna</em>, Luminato Festival's opera concert; <em>A Boy Called Newfoundland</em>, Gateway Theatre; <em>Electronic City</em>, Goethe-Institut; <em>The Futures Market</em>, The Wrecking Ball; <em>Plighted Troths</em>, Foundry Theatre; <em>Be Kind to Mimes</em>, Alumnae Theatre; <em>The Play About the Baby</em> at the Battersea Arts Centre; <em>Moo</em>, Beyond Chutleigh Productions. She has worked as an assistant director at Tarragon Theatre (<em>No Great Mischief</em>, assisting Richard Rose), the Shaw Festival (<em>Afterplay</em>, assisting Daryl Cloran), and Theatre by the Bay (<em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> and <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>, assisting Daryl Cloran and Mark Wilson).
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	Ashlie began her training at Queen's University, Kingston, ON, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Drama. She received a Master's Degree in Directing, awarded with distinction, from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. These studies were funded through a British Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship.
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	Other awards/grants Ashlie has received include: Theatre Ontario Professional Theatre Training Program Grant, Herstmonceux Castle International Study Centre Award and the Queen's University Lorne Greene Award (given to a graduating student for excellence in theatre practice). Ashlie has been nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award (for <em>The Ugly One</em>) and was short-listed for the Pauline McGibbon Award.
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	Ashlie is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, participated in a Goethe-Insititut / International Theatre Institute's directing residency at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, took part in Nightwood's Penelopiad Lab, was a member of Canadian Stage's BASH! 2010 program and was the 2010/11 Urjo Kareda Emerging Artist at Tarragon Theatre.
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