The Seasons
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Based on The Four Seasons with additional arias and ensembles by Vivaldi
Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
Co-Conceived by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Sarah Ruhl
In collaboration with Pam Tanowitz and Zack Winokur
Directed by Zack Winokur, Choregraphed by Pam Tanowitz
Developed by SCENE and AMOC*
Co-Production with Boston Lyric Opera, SCENE, and AMOC*
Co-presented by ArtsEmerson
Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 7:30PM
Thursday, March 13, 2025 | 7:30PM
Friday, March 14, 2025 | 7:30PM
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 3:00PM
Sunday, March 16, 2025| 3:00PM
Sung in English, Italian, and Latin with English surtitles
Audio Described Performance:
Saturday, Mar 15 | 3:00PM
Five artists escape the city to a remote farm, seeking a creative retreat and the inspiration of nature. They paint, write, farm, and some even fall in love, but extreme weather upends their plans, altering their lives forever. The Seasons is set in a near future in which the seasons seem to be out of order. Co-conceived by celebrated playwright Sarah Ruhl and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, this innovative work creates a new narrative from Vivaldi arias, ensembles, and excerpts from The Four Seasons, all woven together with dance by choreographer Pam Tanowitz. Directed by Zack Winokur with music direction by Stephen Stubbs, the piece uses timeless music to find new ways we can draw connections between our emotions and the weather.
Sponsored in part by Polaris Capital Management.
SCENE gratefully acknowledges Carol Stein for her generous support as their Lead Sponsor of The Seasons.
Jack Forman’s participation in The Seasons is made possible by the generosity of the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group and the MIT Center for Bits & Atoms.
In collaboration with VOICES Boston.
The Seasons is part of BLO’s Rising Waters/Rising Voices initiative.
The Seasons contains depictions of death resulting from natural disasters, which may be unsettling for some audience members. Please also be aware that this production includes intense lighting effects, loud sounds, and haze. Some production elements for this run could not be realized in a way that fully represented the original vision. Thank you for your understanding and enjoy the unique experience of live opera.
Anthony Roth Costanzo | The Poet
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at age 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He was recently awarded a Grammy, an honorary doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a visiting fellowship from Oxford University, the History Makers Award from the New York Historical Society, and was a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard. This season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Orfeo, Orfeo ed Euridice; to the Santa Fe Opera for a world premiere; and to the Teatro Real. He debuts with Paris Opera, gives recitals at the Kennedy Center and Boston’s Jordan Hall, debuts at London’s Wigmore Hall, and appears at Carnegie Hall. As a producer, he has created projects for Opera Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, BBC Proms, WQXR, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and more. His debut album ARC was nominated for a Grammy, and his live show and second album Only an Octave Apart with Justin Vivian Bond received numerous “Best of 2021” accolades. Costanzo was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in a Merchant Ivory film. He graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he has returned to teach, and Manhattan School of Music, where he is on the board of trustees. He also serves on the board of National Black Theatre.Ashley Emerson | The Farmer
In 2024/25, Ashley Emerson performs selected songs of Haydn with the Brooklyn Art Song Society, sings a Valentine’s Day concert with the Aiken Symphony, joins Boston Lyric Opera for the world premiere of The Seasons, and reprises a signature role as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with The Metropolitan Opera. In recent seasons, Ms. Emerson sang Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Kentucky Opera, a role she has also sung with Seattle Opera. She made her Boston Lyric Opera debut as Jeanette in The Anonymous Lover, joined the New Jersey Festival Orchestra as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and made her role debut as Despina in Così fan tutte with Cedar Rapids Opera. She also sang Johanna Barker in Sweeney Todd with Opera Omaha and appeared as Rapunzel in Into the Woods at HALO. Ms. Emerson recently reprised Papagena with the Cleveland Orchestra and will return in a future season TBA. Her most recent assignments with The Metropolitan Opera included covering Noémie in Cinderella and Xenia in Boris Godunov, as well as singing Laura Fleet in the North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Marnie, which was broadcast Live in HD to movie theaters worldwide.Kangmin Justin Kim | The Painter
Kangmin Justin Kim was born in South Korea and grew up in Evanston. He studied at Northwestern University and the Royal Academy of Music London. His professional operatic debut in 2013 was quickly followed by appearances in Paris as Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus at the Opéra Comique and Oreste, La belle Hélène at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Recent highlights include Sesto, Giulio Cesare in a new production in Monte Carlo and at the Wiener Staatsoper as well as on tour in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, and Luxembourg. He also starred in the title role of M. Butterfly (world premiere), Santa Fe Opera and recently reprised the work at London’s Barbican Hall. In the last two years, he also debuted at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Annio, La Clemenza di Tito and Despina, Così fan tutte; and at the Dallas Opera in Hänsel und Gretel. He has appeared in a number of operas at Teatro La Fenice and sang Nerone, L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Berlin Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, New York Lincoln Center, Philharmonie de Paris, Edinburgh Festival, and Teatro La Fenice. Kim is the first countertenor to sing Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House London.Whitney Morrison | The Performance Artist
A Chicago native and recent alum of the Ryan Opera Center, Whitney Morrison champions the African American aesthetic in classical music, embracing a style of performance that blends classical singing with elements of gospel singing. Recent highlights include singing Louise/Betty on BMOP/Odyssey Opera’s GRAMMY-nominated 2023 recording of The Life and Times of Malcolm X; Emelda Griffith, Champion, Yasmine Miller, Proximity (world premiere), and Sister Rose, Dead Man Walking, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Ottavia, Comet Poppea, AMOC*; Lady Billows, Albert Herring and Leonie Baker, Freedom Ride, Chicago Opera Theater; and Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, Floating Opera Company. Morrison holds an M.M. from Eastman School of Music and a B.A. in vocal performance and pedagogy from Oakwood University. She trained at the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto in Italy and the Neil Semer Vocal Institute, and was a 2020 National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Other accolades include first place in the National Classical Singer University Competition, finalist in the Luminarts Classical Music Competition, and a She Shines Award from Girls Inc. of Chicago. Morrison attributes her love of classical music to her upbringing in the church. In her youth, she reveled in the diverse music and charismatic culture of the black church where her grandfather pastored, and eagerly anticipated the annual Handel’s Messiah at Progressive Baptist, the church attended by her aunts and grandparents.Alexis Peart | The Choreographer
Alexis Peart, mezzo-soprano, is a third-year Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, where this spring she appears in The Seasons, Noah’s Flood, and Opera Stories: Hansel and Gretel. Recent BLO credits include Arbate, Mitridate; Tisbe, La Cenerentola, Big Stone, Eurydice; Angelina, Opera Stories: Cinderella; and Dorothée (cover), The Anonymous Lover. She is a 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition New England Region Encouragement Award Winner and Boston District Winner. Recent roles have included Dorabella, Cosí fan tutte; Carmen, La Tragédie de Carmen; Jo, Little Women; Ruggiero, Alcina; Brittomara, If I Were You; Taller Daughter, Proving Up; Giulio Cesare, Giulio Cesare; Der Trommler, Der Kaiser von Atlantis; and Ada Lovelace in the world premiere workshop of Ruehr’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. She can be heard on Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera’s GRAMMY-nominated recording of Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, and on several art song recordings released by PARMA Recordings, LLC. Ms. Peart is a two-time alumna of the Wolf Trap Opera Studio and has worked with companies including the Princeton Festival, Chautauqua Opera Company (Studio Artist), Rochester Oratorio Society, and Castle of Our Skins.Brandon Cedel | The Cosmic Weatherman
American bass-baritone Brandon Cedel is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and was an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt from 2016-2019. His 2024/25 season includes Dulcamara, L’elisir d’amore, English National Opera; Il Re, Ariodante, Boston Baroque; and Garibaldo, Rodelinda, Garsington Opera. In concert, he sings Haydn’s The Creation with Music of the Baroque, Mozart’s Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society, and Méphistophélès in Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra. Recent appearances include Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Leporello, Don Giovanni; and Argante, Rinaldo for the Glyndebourne Festival; Hercules, Hercules, Karlsruhe Handel Festival; Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, Atlanta Opera; Dan Brown, The Hours, Philadelphia Orchestra (world premiere) and the Metropolitan Opera; Masetto, Don Giovanni, Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago; Collatinus, The Rape of Lucretia and Magnifico, La Cenerentola, Boston Lyric Opera; Figaro, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Philadelphia and the Stuttgart Staatsoper; Goulaud, Pelléas et Mélisande, Des Moines Metro Opera; and Colline, La bohème and Basilio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Canadian Opera Company. His many roles for Oper Frankfurt include Masetto, Don Giovanni; Ratcliffe, Billy Budd; Argante, Rinaldo; Ariodate, Serse; Cesare Angelotti, Tosca; Brander, La damnation de Faust; and Achior, La Betulia liberata.Maggie Cloud | Principal Dancer
Maggie Cloud is a New York City-based performer and acupuncturist. She has been involved in the work of Moriah Evans, Beth Gill, John Jasperse, Neal Medlyn, Sarah Michelson, Pam Tanowitz, Gillian Walsh, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and The Metropolitan Opera. Cloud has taught at Chen Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and at the University of the Arts.
Marc Crousillat | Principal Dancer
Marc Crousillat has performed in works by Tere O’Connor, Netta Yerushalmy, Moriah Evans, John Jasperse, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, and others. He was part of the Bessie Award-winning Night of 100 Solos (2019) for the Merce Cunningham Centennial at BAM and performed in Cunningham’s Beach Birds (2023). He made his Broadway debut in West Side Story (2020), directed by Ivo van Hove and choreographed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. From 2014 to 2022, Crousillat was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, performing, teaching, and restaging repertory worldwide. For his work with the company, he received a Princess Grace Award for Excellence in Dance and a Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Performer in the revival of Watermotor. His improvisational work has been presented at Roulette, CPR, Movement Research, and more. He made his acting debut in Burrow (2023), directed by Leaf Lieber, at Tribeca Film Festival. Most recently, he choreographed Clairo’s Terrapin music video, directed by Ayo Edebiri. In 2024, he began performing with Pam Tanowitz.
Christine Flores | Rehearsal Director/Principal Dancer
Christine Flores is a New York-based artist from Toronto, Canada. Named one of Dance Magazine’s 2021 “25 to Watch”, Flores was recently in the original Broadway cast of Illinoise. She has had the privilege of performing with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Dance Heginbotham, Company XIV, Keigwin + Company, Danielle Russo Performance Project, NVA & Guests, Shinsa The Collective, and has worked with acclaimed choreographers Caleb Teicher, Akira Uchida, Austin Goodwin, Mark Caserta, Kristen Carcone, and Chase Brock. Flores graduated New World School of the Arts/University of Florida in 2015 with a BFA in dance and received additional training at Springboard Danse Montreal, the Contemporary Program at Jacob’s Pillow, and Cunningham Fellowship workshops. This is her Boston Lyric Opera debut.
Lindsey Jones | Principal Dancer
Lindsey Jones is a Brooklyn-based dancer and herbalist, originally from St. Louis, MO. A SUNY Purchase alum, she has been a longtime member of Pam Tanowitz Dance and Dance Heginbotham. Jones has also performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kimberly Bartosik, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, Caleb Teicher, and others. She has performed with The Metropolitan Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Bard SummerScape Opera and American Classical Orchestra. Since 2012, she has collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Trust, performing Merce’s repertory. Certified to teach Cunningham Technique® and Dance for Parkinson’s, Jones was a 2022 New York Public Library fellow, researching dance & ecology. She is also a graduate of the Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism.
Brian Lawson | Principal Dancer
Brian Lawson is a dance performer and educator who began dancing in Toronto. He attended SUNY Purchase and, while studying, performed with Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Pam Tanowitz Dance, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He graduated summa cum laude in 2010 with a B.F.A. in dance performance and received the President’s Award in Modern Dance. He joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2011 and had the great pleasure of touring the United States and the world performing Morris’ dances. Lawson earned his M.F.A. from the University of Washington in 2020 and subsequently joined the faculty at Cornish College of the Arts. At present, he serves as an assistant professor of dance at Skidmore College. His artistic research focuses on queering the ballet canon (with Adele Nickel) and exploring queer masculinities (with Aaron Loux.) He also engages in pedagogical research with regards to contemporary balletic practices. Lawson rejoined Pam Tanowitz Dance in 2022 and is thrilled to be back. He has given masterclasses at Purchase College, NYU Tisch, and the American Dance Festival, among others. He acts as a guest ballet teacher for the José Limón Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Gibney Dance.
Maile Okamura | Principal Dancer
Maile Okamura studied ballet with Lynda Yourth in San Diego, California, and at San Francisco Ballet School. She danced with Boston Ballet II and Ballet Arizona, and for over 25 years with Mark Morris Dance Group. Okamura has been dancing with Pam Tanowitz Dance since 2016. She also designs/constructs costumes for dance, music and opera, and is an ongoing creative collaborator with choreographer John Heginbotham. This is her debut with Boston Lyric Opera.
Sarah Ruhl | Librettist
Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, poet and essayist. Her plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); and Eurydice (also an opera with Matthew Aucoin at Boston Lyric Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.) Her plays have been produced on Broadway, across the country, and internationally, and translated into fourteen languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her MFA from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN Center Award, and a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. Her books include Smile and 100 Essays I Didn’t have Time to Write (a New York Times Notable Book). She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Stephen Stubbs | Music Director
Stephen Stubbs specializes in conducting Baroque opera and oratorio. He began his career as an opera conductor in 1987 with La morte d’Orfeo in Bruges, which led to the founding of the ensemble Tragicomedia. Since 1997, Stubbs has co-directed the bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival opera and is its permanent artistic co-director. BEMF’s recordings were nominated for six GRAMMY® awards between 2005 and 2019, winning in 2015 for a recording of La descente d’Orphée. Stubbs is also the founding director of Pacific MusicWorks. Notable engagements include appearances with Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Musica Angelica, and Early Music Vancouver. Stubbs has made multiple appearances with Opera Omaha, including for Agrippina, Semele, and San Giovanni Battista. Other recent opera engagements include Orfeo, Tancredi e Clorinda, and Tirsi e Clori with Seattle Opera; and La morte d’Orfeo with Los Angeles Opera. Overseas, he has worked in Spain, Amsterdam, France, Italy, England, and Germany, notably with Hilliard Ensemble. He is a regular at leading conservatories and training programs, including Julliard, UCLA Opera, Merola Opera Institute, and Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. In the 2024/25 season, Stubbs conducts The Messiah at San Francisco Symphony, The Seasons at Boston Lyric Opera, and Rameau’s Pygmalion at Kentucky Opera.Zack Winokur | Director
Director and producer Zack Winokur is co-founder and Artistic Director of AMOC* as well as Producing Artistic Director of Little Island. Recent directing highlights include Mammoth, featuring Yo-Yo Ma 400 feet underground inside Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky; Tristan and Isolde, Santa Fe Opera; Messiaen’s Harawi at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, De Singel, and Elbphilharmonie; Only an Octave Apart starring Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Opera, Wilton’s Music Hall in London, and the Spoleto Festival USA; The Black Clown at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the American Repertory Theater; Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine by Tyshawn Sorey and Claudia Rankine, starring Julia Bullock on the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and other productions at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, and Stanford Live. Winokur served as Artistic Director of NY PopsUp, an initiative to reopen the performing arts across New York State with over 300 free and public performances featuring hundreds of artists from February to July 2021. He co-teaches a transdisciplinary storytelling class at Harvard with Davóne Tines.
Mimi Lien | Scenographer / Design Dramaturg
Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theatre, dance, and opera. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, she often focuses her work on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer.
Recent opera projects include Grounded, The Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera; Parsifal, Bayreuther Festspiele; The Righteous, Santa Fe Opera; Intelligence, Houston Grand Opera; The Comet/Poppea, The Industry/AMOC*/Curtis Institute; and Die Zauberflöte, Staatsoper Berlin. Her theatre work includes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Tony Award); Sweeney Todd (Tony nomination); True West; Fairview; and An Octoroon with Soho Rep; and A 24-Decade History of Popular Music with St. Ann’s Warehouse. Her large-scale public artworks include The GREEN at Lincoln Center; PARADE, a conveyor-belt installation commissioned by The Bentway in Toronto; and Model Home, a performance installation utilizing a 60-ft crane in San Diego. In 2015, she became the first set designer ever to be honored with a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also received a Bessie Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award, Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity at Lincoln Center Theater, and OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence. She is a co-founder of the Brooklyn performance/art space JACK.
Jack Forman | Design & Materials Technologist
Jack Forman is jubilant to bring science and engineering to the stage in his first production. He has had his work in shape-changing and 3D-printed textiles in top-tier academic Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences and has received design awards from Red Dot, Fast Company, Core77, International Design Awards, and A’Design. Forman has been awarded the 2022 MIT OGE William Asbjornsen Albert Memorial Fellowship, the 2021 MIT LGBT Pride Award, Tau Beta Pi membership, was a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar, and was a Boeing MSE Scholar in 2019 & 2020. Forman is currently a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab & Center for Bits and Atoms and received his B.S. in materials science & biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2019.
Carlos J Soto | Costume Designer
Carlos J Soto is a New York City-based designer and creative director. Since 1997 he has collaborated with artist and director Robert Wilson as a performer, designer and assistant on numerous productions in the United States and Europe, most recently Der Messias (Händel / Mozart) at Gran Teatre del Liceu; I was sitting on my patio this guy appeared I thought I was hallucinating at Théâtre de la Ville; and 6 Solos (Bach) with Lucinda Childs at Festival d’Automne. He also frequently collaborates with the artist Solange, including the film When I Get Home, and In Past Pupils and Smiles at the 2019 Biennale di Venezia. With director Zack Winokur, he has designed The Black Clown (Schachter / Tines) at A.R.T.; and Only An Octave Apart with Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann’s Warehouse. In opera, recent collaborations include La Calisto (Cavalli) at Glimmerglass Opera, Tosca (Puccini) at Wermland Opera; Intelligence (Heggie) at Houston Grand Opera, L’Orfeo (Monteverdi) and Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) at the Santa Fe Opera, Proximity: A Trio of New American Operas at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Perle Noire (Sellars/Sorey) at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam.
Pam Tanowitz | Choreographer
Pam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York-based choreographer and collaborator who has steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research and creation. The 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Awardee redefines tradition through careful examination, subtly questioning those who came before her yet never yielding to perceptions stuck in the past. And now, the world’s most respected companies — Martha Graham Dance Company, Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, and others — are proudly integrating Tanowitz’s poetic universe into their repertories. Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College, where she clarified her creative voice under former Cunningham dancer and choreographer Viola Farber. In 2000, she founded Pam Tanowitz Dance to explore dance-making with a consistent community of dancers. She has since been commissioned by Fisher Center at Bard, The Joyce Theater, The Kennedy Center, and many other leading arts institutions, and has received numerous honors and fellowships from organizations including the Bessie Awards, Guggenheim Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Herb Alpert Award, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Tanowitz is an assistant professor of professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University and is the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard.John Torres | Lighting Designer
John Torres is a New York-based lighting designer working in theatre, motion, print, exhibitions, and live music. Professionally trained in theatrical lighting design, Torres has designed for such artists as director Robert Wilson, photographer Steven Klein, choreographers Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown, and musicians such as Drake and Solange Knowles. Recent and upcoming engagements have included PIT by choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber at Paris Opera Ballet; Drake’s recent arena tour It’s All A Blur; Solange Knowles’s In Service to Whom at the Sydney Volume Festival; Off-Broadway Danny and the Deep Blue Sea starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott; and Adam Pendleton’s Who Is Queen? at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. In fashion, clients have included Bottega Veneta, Gucci, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton, and Proenza Schouler.
Earon Chew Nealey | Wig & Makeup Designer
Earon Chew Nealey is an Obie Award-winning and Drama Desk-nominated hair, wig, and makeup designer. Her Broadway credits include Fat Ham (Associate Designer), Macbeth, Chicken and Biscuits, and Sweat. Other credits include Diary of a Tap Dancer with A.R.T.; Sojourners, Toni Stone, Fat Ham, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone with The Huntington; Bad Kreyól and Three Houses with Signature Theatre; Table 17 (Makeup Design) with MCC; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malvolio, and Twelfth Night with Classical Theatre of Harlem; Hamlet, The Harder They Come, Fat Ham, Cullud Wattah, and Mojada with Public Theater; Dames at Sea and Kinky Boots with Bucks County Playhouse; Last Supper with SOPAC; On Killing with Soho Rep; Little Girl Blue with Goodspeed and New World Stages; Meet Vera Stark and Matilda with Colorado University; On Sugarland with NYTW; Nina Simone: Four Women with Berkshire Theatre Group; Little Women with Dallas Theater Center; Oklahoma! and Patsy Cline with Weston Playhouse; Memphis and Dream Girls with Cape Fear Regional Theatre; and Cadillac Crew and Twelfth Night with Yale Rep.
Alexandra Dietrich | Intimacy Director
Alexandra Dietrich – originally from Freeport, Maine – is a Puerto Rican American stage director. Her 2024/25 season opened with her company debut at Boston Lyric Opera, where she was Assistant Stage Director for Mitridate. She directed Little Women: The Broadway Musical at Marblehead Little Theatre and next serves as both Intimacy Director and Assistant Stage Director for Boston Lyric Opera’s The Seasons. Notable work includes stage directing Glory Denied at Opera Company of Middlebury; stage and intimacy directing A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder at Marblehead Little Theatre; stage and intimacy directing La tragédie de Carmen at Boston Opera Collaborative; and stage directing The Little Prince at Longy School of Music. In 2019, Ms. Dietrich joined the voice faculty at the University of Southern Maine Osher School of Music. In the 2022/23 season, she was Assistant Director to James Robinson on Awakenings with Odyssey Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Also with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, she was an Associate Artistic Producer on the GRAMMY®-nominated recording of Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Ms. Dietrich serves on the Board of Directors for NAGLY, which provides programming and life supports for LGBTQIA+ youth in the North Shore of MA.
Grant Herreid | Music Consultant
Grant Herreid began his professional career in his native Portland, OR as a classical and jazz trumpet player. An early music specialist for many years, he performs frequently on early reeds, brass, strings, percussion and voice with Piffaro, Hesperus, ARTEK, Elm City Consort, and many other early music groups. A noted teacher and educator, he was the recipient of Early Music America’s Laurette Goldberg award for excellence in early music outreach and education. Herreid appeared on Broadway playing hurdy gurdy, lute, theorbo, cittern, and percussion in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard III, starring Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry. On the faculty at Yale University, he directs the Yale Collegium Musicum, and is Artistic and Music Director of the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP). He devotes much of his time to exploring the esoteric and unwritten traditions of early (and late) Renaissance music.
Robert J. Orchard Stage, Emerson Paramount Center
559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
