Shawna Lucey Email & Phone Number

"Lucey directs [with] contemporary flair...dousing the classic with a touch of Modern Monty Python alongside Carol Burnett show moments."Broadway World ReviewShawna Lucey is General Director of Opera San José, and an opera & theater director. Her work has been seen at the Santa Fe Opera, The San Francisco Opera, The Bread & Puppet Theater, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Dallas Opera, Skylight Music Theater, The Bolshoi Theater, and Schauspiel Hannover. Recent directorial engagements include a new legacy production of Tosca for The San Francisco Opera, Pearl Fishers for The Santa Fe Opera and Falstaff for Dallas Opera. Lucey is known for her feminist staging’s of classic and modern pieces, bringing passionate new resonance to the warhorses of opera and grappling with contemporary works through a feminist paradigm. After completing her undergraduate degrees in Theater (BA) & Italian (BA) at the University of Texas at Austin, she moved to Russia in order to pursue a Master’s degree. Her first project in Moscow, directing and designing a puppet version of Primo Levi’s If This is a Man, performed at the Moscow Art Theater and toured within Russia. During her five years in Russia, Shawna pursued work with theater institutions while completing her MFA in Directing & Movement from the Boris Schukin Theatre Institute of the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow. After touring and performing with The Bread and Puppet Theater, Shawna pursued a career directing opera. While creating funky opera experiences in New York City with Pocket Opera of New York, and spending eleven summer seasons at the Santa Fe Opera working her way up from technical apprentice to stage director, Shawna was also a professor of theater at the Borough of Manhattan Community College teaching courses on acting, design, stage management and directing. She has also been a stage director at The Metropolitan Opera, The San Francisco Opera, LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Gran Teatr del Liceu, The Bolshoi Theater, working with Francesca Zambello, John Caird, Stephen Lawless, & Lee Blakeley. In the fall of 2020, Shawna joined Columbia’s Master of Science program in Nonprofit Management in order to invest in her plans of joining the management of a major American Opera House, culminating in her appointment as the General Director and CEO of Opera San José (OSJ) beginning in January of 2022. Shawna’s second passion after opera is nail art which can be enjoyed on her Instagram profile @29flames. Visit her official website www.shawnalucey.com to see more of her directing.

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