Royce Vavrek is a Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist known for his standing as “a favorite collaborator of the postclassical set” (Time Out New York), his name “virtually synonymous with contemporary opera in New York” (I Care If You Listen). His work has been called “sharp, crisp, witty” (See Magazine), “taut” (The New Yorker), “meticulous” (Operavore, WQXR Radio), “full-throated” (CulturePOP), “dramatically wild” and “exhilarating” (The New York Times).
Royce is co-Artistic Director of The Coterie, an opera-theater company founded with soprano Lauren Worsham. He holds a BFA in Filmmaking and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU. He is an alum of ALT’s Composer Librettist Development Program.