Giselle Ty

I am a theater and opera director who specializes in interdisciplinary, experimental, and site-specific work. Whether involving unusual spaces, uncanny collaborations, foreign languages, or bold source material, challenging projects are something I look, for and I am committed to making work that is aesthetically visceral, intellectually challenging, and emotionally unafraid. Having lived in the US, UK, Philippines and France, and having grown up in a Chinese-Buddhist/Spanish-Filipino-Catholic household, I see both the familiar and the foreign in most places and have a unique anchor inside this constellation of languages and experiences. My approach integrates a wide spectrum of influences, and the environments I create often play with different spatial and temporal rules and poet