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Biography
Alan Olejniczak is a San Francisco playwright and opera librettist. He is the Playwright in Residence with The Proscenium, a London-based online theatre company. Their first season includes his plays: Next of Kin, Helt Texas and his adaption of A Christmas Carol with David Ricardo-Pearce. Their second season will premiere his plays: WorkForce and Plunder.
?His first opera, Death of Ivan Ilych with music by John Young received a co-premiere partnership in 2021 with Opera Orlando and Thompson Street Opera Company. In August 2021, his site-specific opera, Unbound, with music by Nathan Hall premiered at Studio Friction in Denver, CO. Dreams Americanos with music by Chris Pratorius Gómez will premiere in Houston with I Colori dell'opera in 2023. Alan currently has a six other operas in development and has set the text for a song cycle, A Light Rekindled, with Amin Sarrafi and a Christmas oratorio, Yosef and the Counseling Angel, with Cole Thomason-Redus.
Alan is an alum of Micro Galleries, a global arts initiative that uses art as a vehicle to create positive change through creative interventions in public spaces, workshops, symposiums, think tanks, and residencies. In December 2020, Alan collaborated with artist Dakari Akil for Project /Forward 2047: Global projection art festival seen in ten countries.
Alan was the Artist in Residence for Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and the first playwright ever selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation. Alan's other artist residencies include: Micro Galleries in Patan, Nepal; Nes Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland; along with the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency, sailing the icy waters around The International Territory of Svalbard. Alan has a upcoming artist residency this September on the Italian island of Sardinia with Nocefresca.
Productions
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| COMPANY | TITLE | DATES | Opera Orlando | Death of Ivan Ilych | 2/19/2021 - 2/21/2021 |
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Artist Information
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