Lyric Opera 2021-2022 Issue 7 Fire Shut Up My Bones

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 28 JAY STATEN | REVIVAL CHOREOGRAPHER Lyric debut In 2021, the Washington, D.C. native made his associate choreographer debut for Toni Stone (Arena Stage). His credits include After Midnight (Soloist, Broadway), Shuffle Along (Workshops, Off-Broadway), Cabin in the Sky (New York City Center), and New York Spring Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall). His film and TV credits include Smash (NBC), A Capitol Fourth (PBS), and Amici (Canale 5/Italy). Staten is affiliated with the Camille A. Brown & Dancers and Philadanco companies. His dance company for African American youth has served more than 200 children and secured over $3.2 million in college scholarships. AUGUST TYE | BALLET MISTRESS Previously at Lyric: 42 productions since 1993/94 as dancer, choreographer, or ballet mistress, most recently Madama Butterfly , Don Giovanni (both 2019/20). The American dancer and choreographer’s operatic credits include remounting the choreography of Lyric’s Iphigènie en Tauride at San Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She has presented a 20-year retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Vittum Theater and Ruth Page Dance Center, as well as in her hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Tye performed with the Kalamazoo Ballet, dancing leading roles in Sleeping Beauty , Cinderella , and The Nutcracker . She is a past recipient of Regional Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer Award (at age 15) and a two-time recipient of the Monticello Young Choreographer’s Award; the latter garnered her invitations to choreograph throughout America. In addition to Lyric and Joel Hall Dancers, she has performed in Chicago with Salt Creek Ballet, Second City Ballet, and Chicago Folks Operetta. Tye is artistic director at the Hyde Park School of Dance, which she founded in 1993. Four years later she founded Tyego Dance Project, which has performed at Steppenwolf, the Athenaeum, and throughout America in a revival of Spike Jones’s Nutcracker . SARAH HATTEN | WIGMASTER & MAKEUP DESIGNER Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines Metro Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She has also worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse. Sarah Hatten is supported by the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair.