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date = "2016-04-06T13:58:00+01:00"
discipline = "Stage Director"
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title = "Anna Theodosakis"
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Anna Theodosakis is a Toronto based director and choreographer. This fall Anna will be directing _Tears of the Knife/Hin und Zurück_ for the Glenn Gould Conservatory and choreographing the University of Toronto Opera’s _Street Scene_. She will also direct the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera for Young Audiences _WOW Factor: A Cinderella story_, a modern english adaptation of Rossini's _La Cenerentola_. 

Originally from Vancouver, Anna has a Bachelor and Masters of Music from the University of British Columbia in Opera Performance. ​In 2016 she received an Artist Diploma from the University of Toronto in Operatic Stage Direction where she had the honour of being the first student to direct a UofT Opera mainstage production with _The Medium_ in 2015. After graduating Anna has continued to teach dance and movement for the Opera Division as well as choreographing their mainstage shows. 

Anna teaches regularly as a dramatic coach for the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and directed their Ensemble Showcase at the Four Seasons Centre last spring. She also often assistant directs for the COC mainstage operas including John Caird's _La bohème_ this spring. In 2017 Anna was faculty at the Centre for Opera Studies Italy (COSI) where she directed _L'elisir d'amore_ and taught dance. She has also directed the students of Wilfrid Laurier University, the Glenn Gould Conservatory, and the Royal Conservatory of Music.​​

Anna was the resident director for the Indie T.O. company MYOpera from 2015-2018. With MYOpera she directed _The Rape of Lucretia_ and _L'italiana in Algeri_. She was also the resident stage director for the Canadian Art Song Project which included staging a new commission with the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio by Ana Sokolovic: _dawn always begins in the bones_. In 2018 Anna co-founded the multi-disciplinary theatre company Muse 9 Productions with Hyejin Kwon upon receiving the 2017 Vancouver Opera Guild Career Development Grant. Muse 9’s acclaimed inaugural production _From the Diary of Virginia Woolf_ will be remounted for the COC’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Free Concert Series this November.

​Anna has recently directed for the following companies: Canadian Opera Company, UofT Opera, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Banff Centre, MYOpera, COSI, Opera Laurier, Glenn Gould Conservatory, Canadian Art Song Project, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Manitoba Underground Opera, Muskoka Opera Festival, and the Toronto Summer Music Festival. She has been an assistant director for Tim Albery, Paul Curran, Joel Ivany, Robert Lepage/Marilyn Gronsdal, Michael Mori, Michael Albano, Michael Cavanagh, Nancy Hermiston, and Tim Nelson.