Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 8 - Carmen

33 | Lyric Opera of Chicago Works: Choreographers of Color” commission and the Chicago 3Arts Award in recognition for her work as a female artist of color. More recently, Martinez was awarded an NEA grant for her premiere Bliss! at Joffrey Ballet. She is the founder and artistic director of PARA.MAR Dance Theatre in Chicago. Stephanie Martinez’s work at Lyric is funded by Elizabeth B.Yntema and Mark Ferguson in support of female creative leadership in the performing arts. AUGUST TYE | BALLET MISTRESS The American dancer, choreographer, and ballet mistress has worked on nearly 50 productions at Lyric since 1993/94. She remounted 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 . 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, Detroit Opera (formerly 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 A.Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair. C E L E B R AT I N G O U R D E C A D E S - L O N G P A R T N E R S H I P W I T H LY R I C O P E R A S I N C E 1 9 5 6 Learnmore about our accessible, culturally empowering choral music education programs that serve thousands of youth fromevery zip code of Chicago. Fiddler on the Roof Hansel and Gretel Carmen Proximi 2 0 2 2 - 2 3 S E A S O N Photo by Cory Weaver,Lyric Opera of Chicago