Eric Gibson is a stage director equally comfortable with opera and musical theatre.

He travels to Bavaria each summer as the opera director of the Institute of Performing Arts Internation and he staged Salome for the Musik für Musik Künstler Kollaborativ in Berlin. Regional productions in include la Bohème, Die Fledermaus, Madame Butterfly, The Pirates of Penzance, Hansel and Gretel, Trouble in Tahiti, Bastien and Bastienne, and The Barber of Seville for Fargo-Moorhead Opera, The Barber of Seville for Opera Tampa, The Mikado and HMS Pinafore for Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis, and la Rondine and The Italian Girl in Algiers for Winter Opera in St. Louis.

Gibson was artistic director of LOOK Musical Theatre in Tulsa directing nearly fifty original musical theatre and operatic productions including Die Fledermaus, Naughty Marietta, The Merry Widow, Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls, South Pacific, Candide and multiple productions of nearly the entire Gilbert & Sullivan cannon.

Gibson has taught acting at AIMS in Graz, Austria and the Kashu-do Opera Studios in Harnosand, Sweden. He directed Così fan tutte for Varna International in Bulgaria.

As Director of Lyric Theatre at Northern Arizona University from 2015-2020, Gibson staged original productions of Signor Deluso, Il Campanello, Beethoven’s Slippers, Dido & Aeneas, Kiss me, Kate, Trouble in Tahiti, The Pirates of Penzance, The Magic Flute, The Light in the Piazza, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. He staged The Turn of the Screw at The Ohio State University, earning a first-place honor in the National Opera Association’s Opera Production Competition. Other OSU productions included Hansel und Gretel, The Light in the Pizza, Dido and Aeneas, and Michael Ching’s Speed Dating Tonight!

In addition to directing, Gibson is a trained singer and pianist, and will participate in ProArte, Ohio’s premiere professional chamber choir, in the 2026 season.