Directing
Select Works
The Oscar Micheaux Project
(workshop production)
by Jesse Kearney, Cara Reichel, Alphonso Horne, Peter Mills
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 2025
Lighting Design: Manny Delgado
Costumes: Mika Eubanks
Video Design: Brittany Bland
Photo Credit: Rebecca J Michelson
This Little Light of Mine
by Diana Solomon Glover and Chandler Carter
The Brown Theatre, 2025
Conductor: Dr. Everett McCorvey
Set and Lighting Design: Yichen Zhou
Costumes: Aniyah Adams
Photos Credit: Andrew Kung Group
Lalovavi
by Kevin Day and Tifara Knowles
Workshop, 2024/2025
Workshop
Conductor: Kevin Miller
Photo Credit: Philip Groshong
The 16th Annual Fire This Time Festival
The Wild Project, 2025
Out by FELISPEAKS
Poundcake by Brittany Fisher
Security Watch by TyLie Shider
Immanentize the Eschaton by Garrett Turner
Just One Good Day by Jeanette W. Hill
But Not Forgotten by D.L. Patrick
Music Director/Arranger: Dwight Howard
Set Design: Matilyn Temple
Costume Design: Mika Eubanks
Lighting Design: Colleen Doherty
Video Design: Claire Talbott
Photo Credit: Dante Crichlow, Matt Otto, Garlia Jones
The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson
By Sandra Seaton and Carlos Simon
North Carolina Opera, 2024
Music Director: Donald Lee III
Photo Credit: Eric Waters
The Thanksgiving Play
By Larissa FastHorse
Seadog Theatre, 2024
Staged Reading
Photo Credit: Dexter Conlin
Orlando: a new musical
(World Premier)
by Cynthia Saunders, Tricia Dunn, Nora Brigid Monahan
Theater Row, 2024
Music Directed by Megan Smythe
Set Design: David Goldstein
Lighting Design: Emanuel Delgado
Costume Design: Lisa Jordan
Photo Credit: Danny Hidalgo
Psyche
by Jake Landau and Emily Garber
Clear Space Theater, 2024
Workshop Presentation
Two Corners
by B.E. Boykin and Jarrod Lee
Finger Lakes Opera, 2024
Conductor: Gerard Floriano
Set Design: Kimberly Powers
Lighting Design: David Murakami
Video Design: David Murakami
Costume Design: Mary Farmer
Photo Credit: Studio 147 Photography
Fat Ham
By James Ijames
Seadog Theatre, 2024
Staged Reading
Photo Credit: Dexter Conlin
The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson
By Sandra Seaton and Carlos Simon
Pittsburgh Opera, 2024
Music Director Marvin Mills
Influence/Her
by Phaedra Michelle Scott and Gary Bragg
One Talk LLC, 2024
Workshop Reading
The 2024 New Works Collective
Unbroken by Ronald Maurice and J. Barizo
Mechanisms by J.E. Hernandez and Marianna Mott Newirth
On My Mind by Jasmine Barnes and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 2024
Conductor: Darwin Aquino
Set Design: Kimberly Powers
Costume Design: Mika Eubanks
Lighting Design: John D. Alexander
Video Design: David Murakami
Photo Credit: Phillip Hamer
The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson
By Sandra Seaton and Carlos Simon
Opera Carolina, 2024
Pianist: Gregory Thompson
Lighting and Video Design: Michael Baumgarten
Photo Credit: Jerry Taliaferro
Sanctuary Road
by Paul Moravek & Mark Campbell
Virginia Opera, 2024
Conductor: Dr. Everett McCorvey
Set Design: Kimille Howard
Lighting Design: John D. Alexander
Video Design: David Murakami
Photo Credit: Dave Pearson
The Oscar Micheaux Project
by Jesse Kearney, Cara Reichel, Alphonso Horne, and Peter Mills
The 35th Annual National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival, 2023
Music Director: Louis Danowsky
Photo Credit: Ric Kallaher
Treemonisha:
Opera on the Go
by Scott Joplin
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 2023
Music Director: Jonathan Heaney
Video Designer: David Murakami
Costumes: Stacy Harris
Scenic/Props: Meg Brinkley
Photo Credit: David Levy
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
by Lynn Nottage
Seadog Theater, 2023
Staged Reading
Photo/Video Credit: Thomas Collins
Sparks and Wiry Cries/Met Arts, 2023
Conductor: Howard Watkins
Composer: Shawn Okpebholo
Text: Tsitsi Ella Haji, Tyehimba Jess, Crystal Simone Smith
Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger
American Opera Project, 2023
LITTLE DUGONG By Isabella Dawis and Tidtaya Sinutoke
BRUNCH ANGELS by Gabrielle Herbst
SE LEVANTE by Raquel Acevedo Klein
Music Directed by Mila Henry and Kelly Horsted
The Italian Girl
by Rossini
Tulsa Opera, 2022
Conductor: Leslie Dunner
Scenic: Michael Schweikardt
Lights: Deanna Byford
Costumes: Borrowed from Sarasota Opera
Photo Credit: Shane Bevel
A visual anthology of works by BIPOC artists and composers directed by Kimille Howard
New Camerata Opera
2021-2022
Cinematography and Editing by Erik Bagger
The Adventures of Honey and Leon
by Min Kahng
New York City Children's Theater, 2022
Scenic: You-Shin Chen
Lights: Emmanuel Delgado
Costumes: Asa Benally
Choreography: Michael Raine
Photos courtesy of Shintaro Ueyama of Triangle NY for New York City Children’s Theater, 2022
American Apollo
by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer
Des Moines Metro Opera, 2022
Conductor: David Neely
Scenic: Calvin Stara
Lights: Bridget Williams
Costumes: Harry Nadal
Video: David Murakami
Photo Credit: by Duane Tinkey
B.R.O.K.E.N. Code B.I.R.D. Switching
by Tara Wilson Noth
Berkshire Theatre Group, 2022
Scenic: Baron Pugh
Lights: John D. Alexander
Costumes: Danielle Preston
Video: David Murakami
Photo Credit: Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware and Jacey Rae Russell
Quamino's Map
by Errollyn Wallen and Deborah Brevoort
Chicago Opera Theater, 2022
Conductor: Jeri Lynne Johnson
Scenic: Steven Kemp
Lights: John D. Alexander
Costumes: Danielle Preston
Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow
Highway 1, USA
by William Grant Still
Indiana University, 2022
Scenic: David Higgins
Lights: Alice Trent
Costumes: Dana Tzvetkov
Wigs: Andrew Elliot
Sound: Haley Strong
Night Trip
by Sandra Seaton and Carlos Simon
Opera NextGen, 2021
Music Director: Donald Lee
Composed: Carlos Simon
The Visit
by Friedrich Durrenmatt
East Carolina University, 2021
Scenic: Nolan O'Dell
Lights and Sound: Michael Shoaf
Costumes: Delta Childers-Smith
Music: Jacob Kerzner
Photo Credit: Michael Shoaf
The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson
By Sandra Seaton and Carlos Simon
Glimmerglass Festival, 2021 and 2022
Music Director: Kevin Miller/Marvin Mills
Photo Credit: Karli Cadel and Jati Lindsay
L'Amant Anonyme
by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-George
Wolf Trap Opera, 2021
Music Director: Geoff Mcdonald
Photo Credit: A.E. Landes
Death By Life
Libretto by Cerise Jacobs
White Snake Projects, 2021
Music Director: Tian Hui Ng
Composers: Leila Adu, Jacinth Greywoode, Jonathan Bailey Holland, David Sanford and Mary Watkins
In The Open
by Mona Monsour
Western Connecticut State University, 2020
A remotely filmed production directed and edited by Kimille Howard
Low Power
by Jon Kern
Ensemble Studio Theater, 2019
Scenic: Frank Oliva
Lights: Greg MacPherson
Costumes: Izzy Fields
Sound: Emily Auciello
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Sea Dog Theater, 2019
Staged Reading
Skeleton Crew
by Dominique Morriseau
TheaterSquared, 2018
Scenic: Kimberly Powers
Lights: Jonathan Alexander
Costumes: Ruby Kemp
Projections: Yee Eun Nam
Sound: Luqman Brown
Photos Credit: Wesley Hitt
Triggered
by Gabriel Jason Dean
The Amoralists at The Cherry Lane Theatre, 2018
Scenic: Andrew Diaz
Lights: Christina Watanabe
Costumes: Angela Harner
Sound: Matt Otto
Photo Credit: Russ Rowland
The Girl With No Hands
by Charly Evan Simpson
Serials at The Flea Theater, 2017-2018
Scenic: Shannon Kavanagh
Lights: Charlotte Seelig
Costumes: Sarah Lawrence
Music: Ep. 1-2 Eric March, Ep. 3-4 Dwight Howard
It's All About Lorrie
by Joseph Krawczyk
Hudson Guild Theater, 2016 *
The American Theatre of Actors, 2017
Scenic: Vincent Apollo
Lights: Charlotte Seelig
Costumes: Lisa Renee Jordan
*Winner Best Director, Thespis Theater Festival
Photo Credit: Linzy Hayes
Select Assistant Directing Credits
Die Zauberflöte
by W.A. Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder
The Metropolitan Opera, 2023
DIRECTOR
SIMON MCBURNEY
Champion
By Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer
The Metropolitan Opera 2023
DIRECTOR
JIM ROBINSON
Tosca
by Giacomo Puccini
The Metropolitan Opera, 2021-22 Season
Production by
DAVID MCVICAR
2021/2022 Revival Directors: Gina Lipinksi and Shawna Lucey
Porgy and Bess
by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
The Metropolitan Opera, 2019-2020 Season
DIRECTOR
JAMES ROBINSON
Sanctuary City
By Martyna Majok
New York Theatre Workshop, 2020
DIRECTOR
REBECCA FRECKNALL
Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations
by Dominique Morisseau
The Imperial Theatre, 2019
The Kennedy Center, The Ahmanson Theatre, The Princess of Wale Theatre, 2018
Berkeley Rep Theatre, 2017
DIRECTOR
DES MCANUFF
Bad Dates
by Theresa Rebeck
Huntington Theatre Company, 2018
DIRECTOR
JESSICA STONE