Kaley Karis Smith
AGMA Stage Director
UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
Instructor of Opera Theater
Visiting Instructor | Oberlin Conservatory | Fall 2023
Houston Grand Opera
Madama Butterfly | Assistant Director | Winter 2024
Don Giovanni | Assistant Director | Spring 2024
Madama Butterfly | Revival Director | Spring 2024
Visiting Instructor | Oberlin Conservatory | Fall 2023
Houston Grand Opera
Madama Butterfly | Assistant Director | Winter 2024
Don Giovanni | Assistant Director | Spring 2024
Madama Butterfly | Revival Director | Spring 2024
DIRECTING CREDITSHouston Grand Opera
La Traviata | 2023 Opera Idaho Rusalka | 2023 Opera Delaware/Opera Baltimore La traviata | 2023 Pittsburgh Festival Opera The Telephone | 2022 Pittsburgh Opera The Rose Elf | 2022 Livestreamed productions and concerts | 2020-21 Soldier Songs | 2020 Opera Delaware † Make a Scene! | 2020 Virginia Opera Goldie B. Locks and the Three Singing Bears | 2019 Opera for the Young: Elixir of Love | 2018 Chicago Summer Opera The Crucible | 2018 The Turn of the Screw | 2018 The Chautauqua Opera Company The Bremen Town Musicians | 2018 As One | Open Rehearsals | 2018 † Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic |
ASSOCIATE AND ASSISTANT DIRECTING
Houston Grand Opera
Werther | Production: Jacquot | 2023 El Milagro del Recuerdo | Production: Folia| 2022 La traviata | Production: Arbus| 2022 Pittsburgh Opera Blue | Production: Thompson | 2022 Carmen | Production: Bruce | 2022 In a Grove* | Production: Birnbaum | 2022 Magic Flute | Production: Rigazzi | 2021 Semele | Production: McIntyre | 2021 Yardbird | Production: Cousin | 2021 Cosi fan tutte | Production: Manich| 2020 The Glimmerglass Festival † Rinaldo | Production: Proske | 2020 † Cosi?* | Production: Einhorn | 2020 New Camerata Opera † Barnum's Bird | Production: J. Williams | 2020 Virginia Opera La Cenerentola | Production: Lang | 2020 Houston Grand Opera Saul | Production: Kosky | 2019 West Edge Opera Orfeo ed Euridice | Production: Dahlaw | 2019 Michigan Opera Theater Candide | Production: Stickann | 2019 * World Premiere † Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic |
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, EDUCATION, AND EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAMS
Opera Baltimore/Opera Delaware
Opera America Women Directors Grant | 2023 Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist | 2020-22 The Glimmerglass Festival † Young Artist | 2020 Wakefield-Wright Fellowship Program JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Award | 2019 University of South Carolina Master of Music | Opera Theater: Stage Direction | 2014 University of Nebraska Bachelor of Music | Vocal Performance | 2012 Bachelor of Arts | English Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies | 2012 † Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic |
OTHER SKILLS
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