Brenna Corner is an international opera and theater stage director working across the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is also the Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Select directing projects include Macbetto and Il trovatore (Washington National Opera); Pagliacci (Glimmerglass Festival); The Little Prince (Pacific Opera Victoria); H.M.S. Pinafore and L’elisir d’amore (Vancouver Opera); Carmen (Des Moines Metro Opera); Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera); Hansel and Gretel (San Diego Opera and Vancouver Opera); La bohème (Calgary Opera); Dead Man Walking (Israeli Opera); La bohème (The Dallas Opera); Noye’s Fludd and Scalia/Ginsburg (Glimmerglass Opera); Sweeney Todd (New Orleans Opera); Der fliegende Holländer (Cincinnati Opera and Houston Grand Opera); and Carmen (The Atlanta Opera).

She was the founding Artistic Director of Manitoba Underground Opera, which produces a festival of new operatic experiences each August in Winnipeg. She has also worked as a dramatic coach for training programs including the Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artists Program in Washington, D.C.

Brenna made her directorial mainstage debut in 2016 with a new production of Hansel and Gretel designed by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop for Vancouver Opera. This production has since toured North America, and was mostly recently produced for San Diego Opera as part of their 2019–20 season. She made her American directorial debut in February 2017 with New Orleans Opera, creating a new production of Sweeney Todd. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she created new opera experiences through film including Don Giovanni for Seattle Opera, Carmen: Up Close and Personal for Vancouver Opera, Dear Mom: a web series for Kentucky Opera, and Green Envelopes for Manitoba Underground Opera.

Brenna was a member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program with Vancouver Opera and spent two years as the resident director for The Atlanta Opera Studio Artist Program. She is a certified member of Fight Directors Canada and has choreographed many fights for both opera and theater. She studied classical music at the University of Manitoba and has diplomas in theater from Grant MacEwan College and the British American Drama Academy.