Stage Director

Gary Briggle, stage director, brings over 45 years of professional experience in the full range of Music-Theatre genres to our endeavor. He is a nationally-renowned singer-actor and dramatic coach, having worked with Dayton Opera for twenty years, as well as Minnesota Opera, Sacramento Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Carolina, Anchorage Opera, Skylight Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, LOON, Skylark Opera and Nautilus Music-Theatre. Gary was a principal artist and artistic director for Lyric Opera Cleveland. He was guest director at the National Theatre of Hungary, Director of Opera at the University of Iowa and chairman of the Music-Theatre department at SPCPA.