Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 9 - Proximity

37 | Lyric Opera of Chicago 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. ALEXANDER GEDEON | ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: Twilight: Gods (2020/21). The Los Angeles native is a deviser, director, and multi-disciplinary performer whose work takes an intersectional lens to classical aesthetics. Over the past seven years, Alexander has developed and directed new opera and concert-theater works including: Everything Rises featuring Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM); Sanctuaries (Portland’s Memorial Coliseum), a jazz chamber opera about gentri cation; Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage (the REDCAT); The Double (Synchromy); Olivier Messiaen’s Apparition de l’église éternelle (Royce Hall); Georges Bizet/Peter Brook’s La tragèdie de Carmen (San Diego Opera) and Julius Eastman’s Stay On It (San Francisco Conservatory of Music). Previously, Alexander associate directed for Yuval Sharon at Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. As a stage actor he has performed nationally at venues such as New York’s HERE Arts Center, the REDCAT, and The Ford Theater with the Grammy-winning Billy Childs Jazz Chamber Ensemble and Lyris Quartet. In the early 2000s, Alexander led the New York based band Trick & the Heartstrings and signed to Warner Bros UK with Grammy-winning producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence + the Machine). Alexander is a graduate of New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.