Alistair Newton

Alistair Newton

Alistair Newton is a director of theatre and opera, as well as an educator, dramaturge, and Dora nominated playwright. Selected directorial credits include productions for Canadian Stage (King Lear, Love and Information), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical), and the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (Bella: the colour of love). Alistair is an alumni of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio Program, and the Shaw Festival’s Neil Munro Intern Directors’ Project. As an educator, Alistair previously directed Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and his own adaptation of Dekker/ Ford/Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton for George Brown Theatre School, and he has also created productions for Randolph Academy, and the Fountain School at Dalhousie University. Alistair is a member of the Directors’ Lab of Lincoln Centre Theater, and holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA though York University and Canadian Stage’s joint program in stage direction. Alistair recently collaborated with production designer Mary Kerr on an article for the current issue of Theatre Research in Canada, and he will return to Halifax to direct his new adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt in 2023.