Canadian lighting designer Alan Brodie has been creating the lighting for plays, musicals, opera and dance for over 35 years. His lighting for Crystal Pite’s Emergence premiered at the National Ballet of Canada (Toronto) in 2009, and has since featured with Zürich Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. His lighting for Plot Point, another full-length work by Pite, premiered at Nederlands Dans Theater NDT1 (The Hague) in 2010 and subsequently entered the repertoire of Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle). His work with Johann Inger on PASSING at Ballet BC in 2023 continues to tour across North America and Europe.

Between 2003 and 2007 Brodie’s lighting for the Canadian production of the movement-theatre work entitled The Overcoat played across Canada, in the USA, at London’s Barbican Centre, as well as festivals in Bergen, Adelaide and Wellington. More recently, an operatic treatment of the same work, The Overcoat: a musical tailoring, was co-produced by the Canadian Stage Company, Tapestry Opera and Vancouver Opera. Brodie has been recognized with awards for lighting across Canada as well as in San Francisco. His designs for theatre have appeared at Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, as well as many regional theatres across Canada and in America. His work in opera has appeared at Vancouver Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Modern Baroque Opera, the Canadian Opera Company and Kentucky Opera.

Trained initially in design at the University of British Columbia (1989), he completed graduate studies in directing at the University of Victoria in 2016. From 2021 to 2026 Brodie was employed as Manager of Theatre Operations at Arts Umbrella, a not-for-profit providing arts education to children and young people, and in March 2026 he assumed the position of Production Manager at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, BC, Canada. He resides in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with his wife Michele and their rescue dog Bosco.