Francis Cullinan

Francis Cullinan is an American stage director of opera, musical theater, dramas, comedies and cabaret shows.

Born in Massachusetts, Cullinan received his BA from St. Bonaventure University and an MA degree in Speech and Theatre from the University of Kansas. He also served for five years as a Special Services Entertainment Director for the US Army in Zweibrücken, Germany where he ran the Zweibrücken American Theatre and helped coordinate touring USO shows. He went on to serve as Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was the principal coordinator for the MFA professional directing program and supervisor of the studio theatre series. He became a full-time faculty member at the school in 1974, directing regularly there until he retired in 1989.

Among the 37 operas directed by Cullinan are Don Pasquale for Anchorage Opera in 1986, the 1987 world-premiere of Mark Houston's Hazel Kirke at Lake George Opera, a 1992 production of The Merry Widow for Opera Festival of New Jersey,La bohème for Utah Opera in 1995,Falstaff for Opera Carolina in 1997, The Barber of Seville for Central City Opera and Roméo et Juliette for Kentucky Opera in 1998,Candide for Pittsburgh Opera Theatre on 1999, and Hansel and Gretel for Manitoba Opera in 2000. In September 1995 he directed Kurt Weill's opera Down in the Valley for Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Conducted by Russell Patterson, this was the first production of the work by a professional American opera company.

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