Eddie DeHais

Eddie DeHais is a Franco-American transgender director, choreographer, writer, and visual artist. Raised bi-culturally between New York and France, Eddie works internationally in theater and opera, reimagining classics and developing new plays, musicals, and operas. They create epic, transformational, visceral experiences that catalyze fierce compassion and vulnerable curiosity across all boundaries. Recent work includes working as the Choreographic and Intimacy Consultant at the Paris Opera Bastille on their new production of Salome, a workshop at the Seattle Rep of the musical Here & Their, and a workshop centered on disability and blindness of Charlie German’s Happy Birthday Jay, You C*nt at the 14st Y. Upcoming work includes their own original translation and adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas at Book-It Repertory Theater, Hedwig at ArtsWest, The Merry Wives of Windsor at Seattle Shakespeare, and directing for the web-series Dirty Jew, filming in NYC. They also were recently awarded a grant from the San Diego Opera to develop an original adaptation of Metropolis. Eddie has their MFA in Directing from Brown University.