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Joshua May, stage director

Joshua May, stage director, has directed productions, workshops, and scenes programs across the United States. His productions have incorporated innovative digital projection, interactive audience experiences, and sensory friendly adaptations. His recent directing credits include mainstage and outreach productions of Amahl & the Night Visitors (Menotti), Alcina (Handel), Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck), Little Red Riding Hood (Barab), Billy Goats Gruff (Davies), Three Little Pigs (Davies), and Captain Lovelock (Duke). He has directed opera productions of Cendrillon (Viardot), Speed Dating Tonight! (Ching), and The Light in the Piazza (Guettel) at Columbus State University. He is a 2019/2020 national finalist for the Charles Nelson Reilly Prize for Stage Directors in both opera and musical theatre from the American Prize. He has upcoming projects as a director in the 2020 Festival Season for Music on Site, Inc. and a new digital projection immersive production experience of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, Virginia in 2021.

 

He was a resident artist with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, where he served as an assistant director for their production of The Valkyrie from Johnathan Dove's English adaptation of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle. He was also an associate director for the world premiere of an opera set to the life story and music of Puccini, Scandals. He served as a faculty artist in the opera directing program with the Druid City Opera Workshop at the University of Alabama and as an opera directing fellow at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.

 

Dr. May is an Assistant Professor of Voice & Opera Director at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Schwob Opera Theatre was selected as a national finalist for the National Opera Association’s Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition. The opera program's 2019 production of Cendrillon was selected as a national semi-finalist for the American Prize. In addition, the 2019 production of Speed Dating Tonight! was selected as a national finalist for the American Prize. Dr. May also created and developed the Schwob Opera Outreach program, which has produced touring performance and educational productions for elementary school students across the community in Columbus, GA.

The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel

Schwob School of Music

Columbus State University

Stage Director

Hansel & Gretel by E. Humperdinck

University of Michigan-Flint

Stage Director

Captain Lovelock by John Duke

University of Michigan-Flint

Stage Director

The Valkyrie by Dove/Wagner

Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Assistant Stage Director

Alcina by Handel

Hawaii Performing Arts Festival

Assistant Stage Director

Speed Dating Tonight! by Ching & Anthony

Schwob School of Music

Columbus State University

 Stage Director

Cendrillon by Viardot

Schwob School of Music

Columbus State University

 Stage Director

Amahl & the Night Visitors by Menotti

Music On Site, Inc.

 Stage Director

Little Red Riding Hood by Barab

University of Michigan-Flint

Stage Director

Scandals (Puccini, Eaton)

Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Associate Stage Director

Opera Outreach Productions

Stage Director

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