Director

Dennis
Whitehead Darling

(he/him)

Dennis Whitehead Darling is an opera, theatre, and film/video stage director. World premieres: Marian’s Song (Houston Grand Opera), Sanctuary Road (North Carolina Opera), Why I Live at the P.O. (UrbanArias), Buried Deep (Endstation Theatre Company), and The Secret River (Opera Orlando). Other works include The Cunning Little Vixen (Manhattan School of Music), Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera Columbus), Jelly’s Last Jam (concert performance, Long Wharf Theatre), The Falling and the Rising (Arizona Opera), Lost in the Stars (Annapolis Opera), Hansel and Gretel (film, Playground Opera), La Bohème (Opera Columbus), Giulio Cesare in Egitto (film, Carnegie Mellon University), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Red Mountain Theatre), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Hattiloo Theatre/Spazio Teatro No’hma, Milan), The Parchman Hour (Hattiloo Theatre), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Spazio Teatro No’hma, Milan), Intimate Apparel (University of Memphis), Movin’ Up in the World (Opera Memphis), Sunset Baby (Hattiloo Theatre), Blue Viola (Opera Memphis), and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (Hattiloo Theatre). www.denniswhiteheaddarling.com