Gwenyth Dobie is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Out of the Box Productions, a company that creates original works integrating spoken text, dance, music and interactive technology. Her producing and directing credits include Opera Erotique, which toured in BC and was remounted in Toronto; The Third Taboo, which toured western Canada; Prior Engagement at Belfry Studio Theatre in Victoria, BC; Sound in Silence, which premiered at the Belfry in Victoria and the Theatre Centre in Toronto; and Bugzzz ~ A Cautionary Tale at Toronto’s Theatre Direct.

 

Is That You?, Chromesthesia, Disrupting Solitude and Rallentando explored diverse methodologies of immersive, digital interactivity; while investigating the ecological and social influence of a natural setting on the creative process. Her most recent immersive, site specific work A Criminal Waste of Time premiered at Woodland Farm on Salt Spring Island in July 2023.

 

Other directing credits include the Canadian premiere of the Danish opera On this Planet by Anders Nordendoft, the world premiere of the opera Eyes on the Mountain, composed by Christopher Donison and Handel’s Oratorio Solomon for Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale. For York University, she directed two pan faculty productions: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera.

 

Gwenyth Dobie has taught movement for actors, singers and devised theatre in the Department of Theatre at York University, at the University of Victoria, Camosun College and the Banff Centre.

 

In September 2020, with William Mackwood, she completed the creation of an Artist Residency on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. With the development of this Artist Residency, her objectives are to provide research/creation opportunities to both Canadian and international artists.