Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (“CBC Radio”). His opera Angel’s Bone with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music. His dynamic family of collaborators include composers Missy Mazzoli (Breaking the Waves, Proving Up), Mikael Karlsson (Melancholia, Fanny & Alexander), David T. Little (Dog Days, JFK), Ricky Ian Gordon (27, The House Without a Christmas Tree), and Paola Prestini (Silent Light). Royce is artistic director of Toronto’s experimental opera company Against the Grain Theatre. He is an alum of Concordia University (Montreal), NYU, and the American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program. roycevavrek.com / Instagram: @rvavrek