Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 10 - West Side Story

33 | Lyric Opera of Chicago Among his many musical- theater productions are Jesus Christ Superstar (U.K./U.S.A. tour, Broadway) and Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall). Davison is a former Tony, Drama Desk, and Olivier Award nominee. JESSICA JAHN | COSTUME DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: West Side Story (2018/19), Norma (2016/17), and Anna Bolena (2014/15). Jahn has collaborated with directors Francesca Zambello, Diane Paulus, Tina Landau, Tommy Kail, Jessica Blank, and Kenny Leon; writers Nora Ephron, Eisa Davis, Charles Busch, Charles Fuller, Tracy K. Smith, and Mark Campbell; and some of her past projects include Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre), Coal Country (The Public Theatre), Blue (Glimmerglass Festival), Orpheo et Euridice (San Francisco Opera), Monodramas (New York City Opera), The Crucible (Glimmerglass Festival), The Manchurian Candidate (Minnesota Opera,world premiere), Dead Man Walking (Washington National Opera), and Moby Dick (Utah Opera). She has taught at both NYU and Rutgers University, and is an Adjunct Costume Design Professor with Brandeis University’s Theater Arts Department. She is currently working toward her Masters in Cultural Anthropology at Hunter College. Jessica Jahn is supported by the Richard P.and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair . MARK M C CULLOUGH | LIGHTING DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Seven productions since 2008, most recently Florencia en el Amazonas (2021/22) and Luisa Miller (2019/20). The lighting designer’s most notable achievements include productions at the Metropolitan Opera ( The Marriage of Figaro ), Vienna Staatsoper ( Macbeth , reprised there last season), Bolshoi Theatre ( La traviata ), Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts ( Les contes d’Hoffmann ), La Scala ( Cyrano de Bergerac ), Madrid’s Teatro Real ( Luisa Miller ), and London’s Royal Opera ( The Queen of Spades ); the major companies of Washington, Boston, Miami, Seattle, Dallas, San Diego, and St. Louis; and Bard College’s Fisher Center and the Glimmerglass Festival. Among McCullough’s extensive theater credits internationally are the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway and U.K. tour); Whistle Down the Wind (Aldwych Theatre, London); The White Devil and Don Carlos (Royal Shakespeare Company); Der Besuch der alten Dame (Ronacher Theatre, Vienna); Artus (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Rebecca (St. Gallen, Stuttgart’s Palladium Theater); and numerous off-Broadway productions. McCullough’s regional theater work has been seen at many of this country’s most distinguished companies. Lighting designers are supported by the Mary-Louise and James S.Aagaard endowment in honor of Duane Schuler. MARK GREY | SOUND DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Eight productions since 2007/08, most recently West Side Stor y (2018/19), and My Fair Lady (2016/17). Grey is an Emmy Award-winning sound designer and composer who made history as the first sound designer for the New York Philharmonic ( On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), which also won the Pulitzer Prize in Music) and the Metropolitan Opera ( L’Amour de Loin (2016), The Merry Widow and Bluebeard’s Castle/Iolanta (both 2015), Death of Klinghoffer (2014), Nixon in China (2011), and Doctor Atomic (2008)). His grand opera, Frankenstein , premiered at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2019, and his mobile chamber opera, Birds In The Moon , premiered with the New York Philharmonic in 2021. Grey has had several commissions from the Atlanta Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and others, and he has collaborated with composer John Adams and several others for nearly three decades. His sound designs have been heard throughout most major concert halls, HD simulcast theaters, and opera houses worldwide. MICHAEL BLACK | CHORUS MASTER The Australian chorus master is in his 11th season at Lyric, having held this position at Opera Australia in Sydney from 2001 to 2013. Black has served in this capacity for such distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and, in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, the Cantillation chamber choir, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Other activities include preparing The Damnation of Faust chorus and Haydn’s Creation at the Grant Park Music Festival, where he has worked for two seasons. He has served as chorus master for close to 140 different operas on four continents, and his work has been recorded and/ or aired on ABC, BBC, PBS, for many HD productions in movie theaters and on television. Michael Black is supported by the Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair. JOSHUA BERGASSE | ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY REPRODUCTION Lyric debut Bergasse won the Emmy Award for his choreography on NBC’s musical drama SMASH. On Broadway, he choreographed the revival of On The Town, for which he received an Astaire Award and was nominated for TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Awards. Also on Broadway, Bergasse choreographed the revival of Gigi, as well as the debut of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Off-Broadway credits include Sweet Charity staring Sutton Foster; Cagney (Drama Desk, Astaire, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for choreography); Bomb-Itty of Errors; and Captain Louie. Josh’s other credits as a choreographer include West Side Story at