Alaina Viau, Stage Director & Creator

ALAINA VIAU, Director and Creator (she/they)

Alaina is a daring director, creator and producer based in Toronto. She is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of award nominated opera company Loose Tea Music Theatre where they creates genre defying productions that center on critical social issues, raising underrepresented voices and cross-cultural relationships. They are defined by seeking to push and challenge the opera experience: “The stunning originality of Viau’s vision…grip the imagination.” – Opera Going Toronto. Alaina is a queer disabled artist seeking a new framework for safe and compassionate creation processes that dismantle hierarchical practices. She is Director-in-Residence at the Nation Theatre School in 2022 and was a finalist in Crow’s Theatre national RBC Rising Star Emerging Directors Prize who “will make a strong impact on the performing arts in Canada”.

This 21-22 season Alaina is directing the fall and winter operas at Wilford Laurier University focusing on responsible presentation of traditional operas and contemporary Canadian opera performance. Alaina is co-creator for new a non-binary opera based on the story of genderfluid and trailblazing pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read and The Museum of the Lost and Found with Olivia Shortt. She is directing The Musical Stage Co’s One Song Glory, and a film adaptation of Emily the Way You Are, an opera about artist Emily Carr by Jana Skarecky.