Bruno Baker, director
Chantelle Good, choreography
Frank J. Oliva, set design
Sabrina Bianca Guillaume, costume design
Ginevra Lombardo, lighting design

The Central Park Five (Davis/Wesley)
This production follows the manipulation of five boys into false imprisonment and the Central Park Five’s legacy amidst our nation's largest and ongoing civil rights movement. A physicalized system entraps a community seeking justice. The production asks how we maintain hope when our agency is taken away. It is not just a Black America problem, it is an American problem.

Daniel Ellis, director
Jaime Mejia, set design and projection design
Angela M. Kahler, costume design
Cheri Prough DeVol, lighting design

L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti/Romani)
Albert Lasker’s 1916 “Drink an orange!” campaign saved the dying orange industry using marketing tactics paralleled in L’elisir d’amore: Charismatic charlatans sow self-doubt and social insecurity while peddling products that engineer self-confidence and consumer dependency. Donizetti’s romantic opera puts a comedic spin on these serious themes, exploring how the naive are influenced by the self-serving.

Scout Davis, director
Diggle, scenic/video design
Amelia Bransky, costume design
Jocelyn Girigorie, lighting design
Melory Mirashrafi, dramaturg
Eamon Foley, choreography

Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck/de’ Calzabigi)
Set in the present-day U.S., this reimagining of Orfeo ed Euridice is born from the ongoing violence against the nation’s Black and brown trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming community, who traverse an uncertain future. The production celebrates queer love through Orfeo’s journey through the stages of grief after losing their love, Euridice.

Katherine Wilkinson, director
Sarah Nietfeld, scenic design
Maureen Freedman, costume design
Christina Tang, lighting design
Allison Plamondon, choreography

Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck/de’ Calzabigi)
This production uses the vast and terrifying Dust Bowl of the Great Depression as a metaphor for the current economic and environmental instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic — interrogating the painful, divine, and unpredictable nature of collective grief. Orfeo is one citizen of a ravaged nation, and his mourning of Euridice is just one plight in a sea of many.