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RECENT
OPERA AMERICA Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize
Alison and her design team were chosen as recipients of the 2022 Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize from Opera America for their interpretation of Strauss's Salome. This biennial award celebrates stage directors and designers for their creative adaptations for today's audiences and links them with career-boosting producers. Learn more about the award here:
https://www.operaamerica.org/r/grants-awards/9441/opera-america-selects-four-teams-for-the-2022
WINTER/SPRING 2023-24
In the 2023/24 season, Alison will serve on the assistant stage directing staff at the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Upcoming
Washington National Opera's Cafritz Young Artist Program Partenope
In April of this season, Alison will be making her directing debut at the Kennedy Center in DC on a production of Handel's Parteonope with Washington National Opera's Cafritz Young Artist Program.
IN DEVELOPMENT: TRANSPORT
Produced by The Why Collective, the project is a double bill fusion of the one-woman chamber opera, Another Sunrise (Heggie/Scheer), and the rarely performed oratorio, Judas Maccabeus (Handel). The project utilizes interdisciplinary story-telling, staging, music, dance, interactive projections, and ASL to tell a story of survival and ask questions of what it means to be a hero. To learn more about the project and see video from our workshop, click here: https://www.thewhycollective.art/projects-in-development