Dylan F. Thomas is currently the outreach stage director at Opera Pacific, where
he staged the educational outreach show entitled Fun With Opera, which will tour
Southern California this spring. He is looking forward to staging Opera Soup, a show he wrote for Opera Pacific, in their Opera in the Park presentation in 2008, and will also direct The Tinker of Tivoli put on by Opera Pacific's Opera Camp program this summer.

Mr. Thomas is the founder and Artistic Director of Center Stage Opera in Canoga Park, CA, where he has directed full productions of numerous operas, including Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, Verdi's La traviata, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio. To finish out CSO's third full season, Thomas will direct Verdi's Rigoletto.

Thomas is currently on faculty at the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA), where he teaches Vocal Pedagogy, Modern Vocal Literature, and Madrigal Singers. In addition, he will stage the variety show, Divas Down the Street, which is a touring performing group made up of select, talented OCHSA students.

As a singer and actor, Dylan F. Thomas has performed extensively throughout California as well as internationally in opera, musical theater, and jazz. He sang the role of Amadee and Young Amadee in the professional recording of Philip Westin’s new Opera Americana, Heartland, featuring members of the Opera Pacific Chorus, and under the musical direction of Maestro Henri Venanzi. Other operatic experience includes several roles with the CSUN Opera Theater, as well as professional engagements with the Opera Pacific Chorus, Center Stage Opera, Euterpe Opera, Bear Valley Opera, and Opera Pasadena. Mr. Thomas has sung the roles of Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Larry/Matt in The Face on the Barroom Floor, Daniel in Donizetti's Betly, Mr. Splinters in The Tender Land, Armored Man in The Magic Flute, and Barton in Esperanza. He recently made his debut in the role of Alfredo in La traviata, opposite his real-life wife, Shira Renee Thomas, and also sang the role of Don Jose in Bizet's Carmen for a concert performance with Center Stage Opera.

For ten months during 2006, Mr. Thomas was engaged as a performer in three different variety shows at Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan. There he had the pleasure of singing not only opera repertoire, but musical theater and jazz as well. He performed the role of Luigi in the street theater production of The Five Topping Opera, and was also a tenor soloist in the holiday spectacular, A White Christmas Carol, seen by upwards of 40,000 people each performance. In addition, USJ created a holiday jazz show, which was conceptualized in part by Mr. Thomas.