Recent Employment
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Lehigh University, Zoellner Arts Center: Guest Director for double bill of Earl Kim/Samuel Beckett music theatre productions EH JOE and FOOTFALLS, 2020
Lehigh University, Zoellner Arts Center: Guest Director for world premiere of HAUNTED, ballet opera by Paul Salerni and Dana Gioia, 2019
Lehigh University, Zoellner Arts Center: Guest Director for Kurt Weill One-Woman Show, “Music at Lehigh” Series
Lehigh University, Zoellner Arts Center: Guest Director for world premiere of THE LIFE AND LOVE OF JOE COOGAN
University of Iowa School of Music: Visiting Artist and Faculty Member
Great Mountains Music
Festival, Korea: Guest Director for Earl Kim music/theatre productions with Sejong Soloists, based on texts by Samuel Beckett and Anne Sexton |
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Directing Experience |
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University of Iowa Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theatre: LA CLEMENZA DI TITO, TROUBLE IN TAHITI & AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL
Opera Theatre of
Lucca, Italy: I PECCATI DI VECCHIEZZA (Director and
auteur, mainstage production, Teatro del Giglio), Director for Bel Canto Student Workshop
Temple Opera Theater: LE ROSSIGNOL & L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES, DIE FLEDERMAUS, DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, ALBERT HERRING, L’AMICO FRITZ (winner Best Production, National Opera Association Competition)
Opera in the Ozarks: Stage Director for LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Lafayette College: MAJOR BARBARA, SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
Kutztown University: ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION
Opera at Lehigh: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Zoellner Arts Center - Ulrich Artist-in-Residence as Director for TONY CARUSO’S FINAL BROADCAST & THE MUSIC MASTER
Lehigh University: Music Dept. - Founder & Director of Opera/Music Theatre Workshop
Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble: THE SUICIDE
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati: DON
GIOVANNI, SUSANNA’S SECRET & FOOTFALLS (winner Outstanding Achievement Award,
Williamstown Theatre
Festival: THE JEWISH WIFE, COME
& GO, EH JOE
Harvard University: FOOTFALLS, THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO
Other Representative College Theatre Productions: THE MANDRAKE, BASEBALL
PLAY,
Buckingham Opera Theatre, NY: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, LA BOHÈME
Lenox Arts Center: BERKSHIRE WRITERS’ FESTIVAL (Lyn Austin, Producer)
Pittsburgh Opera Theatre: THE TELEPHONE, THERE & BACK
Opera Renaissance, Pittsburgh, PA: THE BELLOWS (Director and Translator)
Woods Hole Theatre Company: TANGO
Whitewater Opera Company, Richmond, IN: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
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Assistant Directing Experience |
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Loeb Drama Center,
Cambridge, MA: NARRATIVES (Beckett texts set by composer Earl Kim, featuring Irene Worth) world
premiere
Williamstown
Theatre Festival: Assistant to Artistic Director (Nikos Psacharopoulos) for mainstage season
People’s Theatre
Company, Cambridge, MA: FANSHEN (Maxine Klein, Director)
Chicago Lyric Opera: GIANNI SCHICCHI and LA SCALA DI SETA (Italo Tajo, Director)
Manhattan School
of Music: Assistant Director for Opera Program (Lou Galterio, Director)
Opera Barga Festival, Italy: Assistant Director to Italo Tajo |
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Teaching Experience |
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University of Iowa:
Visiting Assistant Professor and Opera Director, 2012-2013
(graduate and undergraduate level courses: Directing Seminar, Special Topics, Opera Workshops)
Temple University
(Boyer College of Music & Dance): Director and Acting Teacher for Opera Workshops (graduate and
undergraduate levels), 2007-2008
Lehigh University: Faculty member for Lehigh in Italia
semester abroad, spring 2000
College-Conservatory
of Music, University of Cincinnati: Visiting Assistant Professor of
Kutztown
University: Assistant
Professor of Theatre (temporary contracts), 2005-2006;
1995-1997
Northampton Community College: Adjunct Professor of Theatre, 2002-2003; 1980-1982
Stonehill College: Adjunct Instructor of Speech and
Theatre (One year replacement contract),
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Education |
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Boston University School for
Theatre Arts
Chatham College
Bachelor of Arts (drama and music)
MOZART & MAVRA, tutorial production
Patrick
Tucker Shakespeare Workshops for Actors and Directors
Carnegie-Mellon University Pre-college acting and fine arts student
Lovelace Theatre (Pittsburgh PA): apprentice, actor, puppeteer, company tour manager (Margo Lovelace, Artistic Director)
Languages: Speaking/reading knowledge of Italian, French, Spanish and German |
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