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"Don’t be fooled by Dilworth’s quiet personal style. He fills his productions with energy, inventiveness and striking imagery." NOW Magazine
Alan Dilworth is an award winning theatre director. His work has been performed in theatres across Canada and the United States.
He is co-artistic director of Sheep No Wool, co-founder of Belltower Theatre and an associate artist with acclaimed indie companies: Groundwater Productions, Convergence Theatre and Project:Humanity.
Alan is currently a resident artist at The Theatre Centre, a member of The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and The Wrecking Ball.
Alan has an MFA in directing and a B.Ed. from York University, and B.A. in International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Alan was the 2005 Urjo Kareda Emerging Artist in Residence at Tarragon Theatre, where he apprenticed with directors: Richard Rose, Ross Manson, and Eda Holmes. As a playwright he was a member of the Tarragon Theatre Playwrights Unit.
Alan is the recipient of a Crow's Theatre Directing Award and has been nominated for two Dora Awards, the John Hirsch Prize, the John Hirsch Director’s Award, and the Pauline McGibbon Award. He was named Toronto's best emerging male director of 2008 by NOW Magazine.
Selected directing credits include: Thinking of Yu (ATP), The Black Bonspiel of Wullie Macrimmon (The Globe Theatre), The Bundle (Ryerson Theatre School), After Akhmatova (Tarragon), If We Were Birds (Tarragon / Groundwater, Dora Nominations for Outstanding Production, Direction, New Play, and winner of awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role, and Sound Design, and the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award), Iphigenia at Aulis (SummerWorks), The Great Mountain (Red Sky Performance, YPT), The Middle Place (Theatre Passe Muraille / Canadian Stage Company / Belfry / GCTC, Project:Humanity, Toronto Theatre Critic's Award - Best Production of a Play, Crow's Theatre Directing Award, Dora Nomination for Outstanding New Play), The Gladstone Variations (Convergence Theatre, 4 Dora Nominations for Outstanding Production, Direction, New Play(s), and Performance by a Female), Measure For Measure, The Bundle, Phedre, and Cymbeline (Theatre@York), The Unforgetting (Belltower Theatre / SummerWorks - Jury Prize for Outstanding Production), Da (Acting Irish International Theatre Festival, Jury Prize for Outstanding Production), and ma jolie (Belltower Theatre / SummerWorks).
Assistant directing credits include: The Little Years (Stratford), A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper), Cellular (Luminato), The Pillowman (Birdland/Canstage), Salt Water Moon (Resurgence), The Four Horseman Project (Volcano/Factory), Care, Humble Boy, Leo (Tarragon) and Goodness (Volcano/Tarragon).
Alan is currently producing Radical Practices: The Edward Bond Festival in Toronto (June 2012), and will be directing Pamela Sinha’s Crash at Theatre Passe Muraille in April.
