NABUCCO (Verdi)
Canadian Opera Company
October 2024
COC Creative Team: Paolo Carignani (Conductor), Mikael Kangas (Lighting), Sandra Horst (Chorus Master), Wulf Higgins (Props), Laura Coleman (Production Supervisor) Stephanie Marrs (Production Stage Manager), Tamara Vuckovic and Al Gadowsky (Assistant Stage Managers),
Original 1997 Chicago Lyric Production: Michael Yeargan (Scenic) & Jane Greenwood (Costumes)
Cast: Roland Wood (Nabucco), Mary Elizabeth Williams (Abigaille), Rihab Chaieb (Fenena), Matthew Cairns (Ismaele), Simon Lim (Zaccaria), Charlotte Siegel (Anna), Wesley Harrison (Abdallo), Duncan Stenhouse (High Priest of Baal), the COC Chorus, Supers, and Dancers
Photos by Michael Cooper & Gary Beechey
Click here to watch the trailer for Verdi’s Nabucco
Click here to watch Verdi’s Va, pensiero sung by the COC Chorus
SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE (Lisa DeSpain/Melisa Tien)
A world premiere opera co-produced by On Site Opera and Brookfield Arts. Three locations: Brooklyn Commons, Manhattan West, and Brookfield Place
September 2023
“This was a winning combination of a score that was a pleasure because of its modesty and direct communication, a skillful cast that brought out every last bit of feeling and loveliness in the music, and On Site Opera’s intelligence, flexibility, and commitment to engage the public.” -New York Classical Review
Creative Team: Geoffrey McDonald (music director/conductor), Kara Harmon (Costumes), Tess James (Lighting), Beth Lake (Sound), Gabirelle Vincent (Hair and Makeup), Alexander Wylie (Props), Katy Early (Assistant Director), Scott Ethier (Orchestrations), Alayna McCabe & Sarah Ortung (Stage Management), Cris Frisco (Conductor at Manhattan West & Brookfield Place)
Cast: Hannah Cho (Nightingale), Nicole Haslett (Frog), Bernard Holcomb (The Curator), Eliam Ramos (Cow), and Chrystal E. Williams (The Collector)
Covers: Yohji Daquio, Jonathan R. Green, Nicolas Hudak, Teryn Kuzma, and Raphaella Medina.
Artistic Director of On Site Opera: Eric Einhorn
Photos by Fadi Kheir
LA RONDINE (Puccini)
Manhattan School of Music
April 2024
Creative Team: Marcello Cormio (Conductor), Brendan Gonzales Boston (Scenic Design), Rodrigo Muñoz (Costume Design), Marika Kent (Lighting Design), Loryn Pretorius (Wig, Hair, and Makeup Design), Joshua Larrinaga-Yocom (Props Supervisor), Catheryn Hooper (Production Stage Manager), Jackson McKinnon (Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor), Kristen Kemp (Head of Music/Vocal Coach/Pianist), Travis Bloom & Jeanne-Minette Cilliers (Vocal Coach/Pianist), Stephanie Sutherland (Choreographer & Intimacy Director), Stefano de Peppo (Italian Diction Coach), Ellis Durand (Assistant Director), Lauren Linsay (Assistant Stage Manager).
Photography; Brian Hatton
Romèo et Juliette (Gounod)
The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University
Musical Arts Center and Clowes Memorial Hall
November 2023
Creative Team: Stefan Lano (Conductor), Matt Herndon (Fight Choreography), Lydia Spellman (Costumes), Andrew Elliot (Wig Design), Russell Long (Lighting), Sarah Sindelar (Props), C. David Higgins (Original Set Design), Walter Huff (Chorus Master)
Photography: Sarah J. Slover
Press
Q & A with Katherine M. Carter, director of Romèo et Juliette
CAROUSEL (Rogers & Hammerstein)
Intermountain Opera Bozeman at The Ellen Theatre (Bozeman, MT)
February 2024
Creative team: Michael Sakir (conductor), Katherine Proctor Charlier (choreographer), Stacy Hostetter (costume design), Ashley Milleson (scenic design/audio engineer/technical director), Jonathan Dove (lighting design), Brooke Monroe (prop design), Angela Hoffman (stage manager), Reilly Gilleland (assistant stage manager)
Principal Cast: Meredith Lustig (Julie Jordan), Trevor Martin (Billy Bigleow), Abigail Paschke (Carrie Pipperidge), Quinn Bernegger (Enoch Snow), Stephanie Sanchez (Nettie Fowler), John Hosking (Starkeeper), Jake Reisig (Jigger Craigin), Cheryl Sheedy (Mrs. Mullin), Michael Beehler (Mr. Bascombe), Rachel Mascari (Heavenly Friend), Olivia Osen (Louise Bigelow), Erik Pearson (Carnival Dancer), Clayton Ehlers (Enoch Snow, Jr)
Production Photos by Claire Kleese
THÉRÈSE (Massenet)
Sarasota Opera
March 2023
“Stage director Katherine Carter, along with the entire production team of scenic designer Ryan Howell, lighting designer Ken Yunker, costume designer Howard Tsvi Kaplan, and wigs/make-up designer Kellen Eason, attend to every detail for a compelling impact.” - Herald Tribune
Creative Team: Louis Lohraseb (Conductor), Ryan M Howell (Scenic Design), Ken Yunker (Lighting Design), Howard Tsvi Kaplan (Costume Design), Kellen Eason (Hair & Make up Design), Lindsay Woodward (Chorus Master), Juluis Sanchez ( Stage Manager)
Cast: Lisa Chavez (Thérèse), Andrew Surrena (Armand), Sean Anderson (Thorel)
Production Photos by Rod Millington
LES PÊCHEURES DE PERLES (Bizet)
Sarasota Opera
March 2022
“Action and pacing throughout the opera are deftly managed by stage director Katherine M. Carter. There is a lot to wrangle, too, with the sizeable chorus” - Herald Tribune
Creative Team: Marcello Cormio (Conductor), J. Michael Wingfield (Scenic Design), Ken Yunker (Lighting Design), Howard Tsvi Kaplan (Costume Design), Kellen Eason (Hair & Make up Design), Lindsay Woodward (Chorus Master), Robert Klein (Stage Manager)
Principal Cast: Hanna Brammer (Lelia), Kyle Oliver (Zurga), Andy Surrena (Nadir), David Weigel (Nourabad)
Production Photos by Rod Millington
FAR FROM CANTERBURY (Danny K. Bernstein)
The Barnstormers Theatre (Tamworth, NH)
August 2021
Creative Team: Anessa Marie (Music Director), Charlie Johnson (Choreographer), Jeff Cox (Music Supervisor), Reiko Huffman (Scenic), Kelley Shih (Lights), Jackson Alexander (Sound), Saawan Tiwari (Costumes), Hollis Duggans (Production Stage Manager), Caroline Duffin (Assistant Stage Manager), Joe Longthorne & Lori Tishfield (Producers).
Cast: Ellis Gage, Seth Tucker, Kennedy Caughell, Amber Hurst-Martin, Alyssa Gianetti, Rodrigo Ignacio Cruz, Tauren Hagans, Pim van Amerongen, Daris Harper, Hennessy.
Disney’s THE DESCENDANTS
(Based on the Disney Channel original movie)
Book by Nick Blaemire. Music Adaptation by Madeline Smith. Vocal and Incidental Arrangements by Madeline Smith. Additional Lyrics by Nick Blaemire. Orchestrations by Matthew Tishler. Music Produced by Matthew Tishler.
The Rose Theatre (Omaha, NE)
September 2021
Creative Team: Jerry Brabec (Conductor), Sue Gillespie Booton (Choreographer), Bridgette Dennett (Scenic Design), Matt Benes (Lighting Design), Christy Hernandez (Sound Design), Sherri Geerdes (Costume Design), Zach Kloppenborg (Hair & Makeup Design), Lisa Krabbenhoft (Production Stage Manager)
Artistic Director Matt Gutschick
L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES (Ravel) & CENDRILLION (Viardot)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Winter Semester 2021/2022
Creative Team: Dimitri Papadimitriou (Conductor), Peter Rule (Scenic Design), Matt Weisgable (Lighting Design), Damian Dominguez (Costume Design), Parker Kaeding (Stage Manager), Kyle Schuller (Assistant Stage Manager)
Director of Opera Studies, Thomas W. Douglas
Production Photos by Alisa Garin
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart)
Shepard School of Music at Rice University
Michael Heaston, Director of the Opera Studies Program
Spring 2020
This production explores the story of TITO as a film set drama:
Welcome to Capital Rome Film Studio. It’s the 1930’s and we are in the midst of filming a Mozart drama set in the 1770’s, starring everyone’s favorite Diva, Vitellia, directed by the hottest director in town, Tito. Opening night is approaching and the studio is a buzz on whom Tito will be taking as his date to this highly anticipate opening night.
Creative Team: Joseph Colaneri (Conductor), Edward T. Morris (Set Designer), Macy Lynne (Costume Designer), Gary Echelmeye (Lighting Designer)
Photos by Edward T. Morris
THIS IS OUR YOUTH (Kenneth Lonergan)
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre
June 2018
“Carter’s extraordinary gift here is in taking these kids to the top without ever pushing them over it. They’re self-absorbed, insecure, noisy, angry, and obnoxious—but the audience is still rooting for them to be okay in the end, a bit of a tour de force on the director’s part.” -PTownie (June 2, 2018)
“Carter directs Lonergan’s one-room talk-fest with physical energy and simmering power. If “This Is Our Youth” is a harbinger for the season to come, then Outer Cape theatergoers are in for a formidable ride…” -Howard Karen, Wicked Local Wellfleet (June 6, 2018)
“But director Katherine M. Carter and the actors make the two young men seem like another smart variation on Vladimir and Estragon in “Waiting for Godot” — two men who fill the void of nothingness with chatter and activities that seem meaningless on the surface but serve either a dramatic or philosophical function underneath.” -Ed Siegel, WBUR (June 20, 2018)
Creative Team: Edward T. Morris (Set Design), Beth Lake (Sound Design), Caitlin Cisek (Costume Design), Conor Mulligan (Lighting Design), Shams Eugene Monteiro (Fight Choreographer)
Cast: Michael Goldsmith (Dennis), John Evans Reese (Warren), and Ruby Wolf (Jessica)
Production Photos by Michael & Susan Karchmer
LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO
a musical for small audiences (music by Dave Malloy with book & lyrics by Anne Washburn)
Parallel 45 Theatre (Traverse City, MI)
July 2019
Creative Team: Christopher Dills (Set Designer), Brian Elston (Lighting Designer), Jacy Barber (Costume Designer), Elise Curtis (Prop Designer), Dana Gemeinhardt (Production Stage Manager)
Photos by Michael Poehlman Photography
Parallel 45 Theatre, Artistic Director Kit McKay & Executive Director Erin Anderson Whiting
RINALDO (Handel)
Carnegie Mellon University School of Music
Fall 2019
This production looks at the journey of Rinaldo as a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, the realistic world of the basement was consumed by the game.
Creative Team: Thomas W. Douglas (Conductor), Kelsey Garrett (Student Set Designer), Morgan Werner (Student Costume Designer), and Ying Huo (StudentLighting Designer).
Production Photos by Alisa Garin Photography
SEX WITH STRANGERS (Laura Eason)
Westport Country Playhouse
September 2017
Creative Team: Edward T. Morris (Set Designer), Caitlin Cisek (Costume Designer), Beth Lake (Sound Designer), and Alan Edwards (Lighting Designer).
Cast: Jessica Love (Olivia) and Chris Ghaffari (Ethan)
Trailer by Westport Country Playhouse
Press Trailer by Westport Country Playhouse
“In addition to the superb performances by Jessica Love and Chris Ghaffari, Katherine M. Carter's direction is at a perfect pace with Laura Eason's clever writing.”
-Sherry Shameer Cohen, Broadway World (October 2, 2017)
“Katherine M. Carter’s smooth direction never lets up, keeping viewers absorbed from beginning to end.”
-Irene Backalenick, Connecticut Critics Circle (October 2017)
“Overall, the wonderful work of both the actors and the creative team make this Sex with Strangers an entirely surprising and intelligent evening of theatre.”
-Zander Opper, Talkin’ Broadway (October 2017)
"Astutely directed by Katherine M. Carter."
-Susan Granger (October 2017)
“Director Katherine Carter keeps the pace moving…”
-Ed Katz, WICC600 (October 10, 2017)
Photos by Edward T. Morris
SANTA FE OPERA APPRENTICE SCENES
The Santa Fe Opera
August 2019
Of Mice and Men (Floyd)
Creative Team: Jonah Schnell (Lighting Designer), Sarah Moloney (Costume Designer), and Lily Komarow (Wig & Makeup Designer)
Cast: Bille Bruley (Lenny) & Tyler Zimmerman (George)
Photos by Bob Godwin
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Tosca (Puccini)
Creative Team: Jonah Schnell (Lighting Designer), Hannah Schatzle (Costume Designer), and Manuel Jacobo (Wig & Makeup Designer)
Cast: Cory McGee (Angelotti), Alan Higgs (Sacristan), and Justin Stolz (Mario Cavardossi)
Photos by Bob Godwin
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Rusalka (Dvořák)
Creative Team: Will Elphingstone (Lighting Designer), Hannah Schatzle (Costume Designer), Jessi Ann Rogers (Wig & Makeup Designer)
Cast: Regina Ceragioli (Rusalka) & Kate Farrar (Jezibaba)
Personal Backstage Photo
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Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Creative Team: Will Elphingstone (Lighting Designer), Maria Sandoval (Costume Designer), Harley Haberman (Wig & Makeup Designer)
Cast: Katherine Beck (Rosina), Angel Romero (Conte), Jarrett Porter (Figaro), Alan Higgs (Bartolo), and Seugyun Kim (Basilio)
Personal Backstage Photo
THE INTERVIEW (Music and Lyrics by Melissa Li, Book and Lyrics by Natasha Stoynoff)
from The Pussy Grabber Plays: Stories inspired by the women who came forward.
Joe’s Pub
January 14th, 2019
Performers: Lora Lee Gayer (Natasha), Emma Weiss (Music Direction & Keyboard) and Lydia Paulos (Cello)
THE FEIGNED COURTESANS (Aphra Behn)
The New School, School of Drama
March 2019
Creative Team: Edward T. Morris (Scenic Design), Summer Lee Jack (Costume Design), Emily Clarkson (Lighting Design), Fufan Zhang (Assistant Scenic Design), and Austin Pogrob (Student Assistant Director).
Photography by: Nathaniel Johnston Photography
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SONATA 1962 (Book by Patricia Loughrey, Music & Lyrics by Thomas Hodges, Additional Lyrics by Patricia Loughrey)
New York Musical Festival
2018
This heartbreaking chamber musical about a mothers choice to save her daughter from homosexuality played to nearly sold out audiences. SONATA 1962 took home 3 NYMF Awards, and were nominated for 6 additional including: Best Musical, Outstanding Director, Outstanding Book, Outstanding Music, Outstanding Lyrics.
“….Sonata 1962 focuses as much on Laura's budding, forbidden romance with Sarah, and director Katherine M. Carter moves between both story lines with impressive fluidity in the show's packed 80 minutes, with Wesley Cornwell's homely-looking set intensifying the sense of intimacy…. Sonata 1962 refuses us the comfort of easy judgments.” -Kenji Fujishima, TheatreMania
“SONATA 1962 at NYMF is Real, Relatable and Heart-Wrenching…this show was brilliant and moved me to tears on multiple occasions…Sonata 1962 is a must-see. It strikes an emotional chord, and can be relatable to so many, while still feeling true and real” -Stephanie Wild, BroadwayWorld
“Director Katherine M. Carter paces the show very well, and handles the gradual reveal of clues about the story through the performances of the actors nicely.” -Jeffrey Lyle Segal, Times Square Chronicles
Creative Team: James Dobinson (Music Direction & Additional Orchestrations), Wesley Cornwell (Set & Prop Designer), Summer Lee Jack (Costume Designer), Cheyenne Skyes (Lighting Designer), Dan Renkin (Fight Choreographer), Shannon Slaton (Sound Designer), Sophia Pesetti (Stage Manager), Simpson & Longthorne Theatricals (General Managers)
Cast: Romelda Teron Benjamin, AnnEliza Canning-Skinner, Christina Maxwell, Erin Leigh Peck, Aaron Ramey, Lauren Yen Solito.
Photos by Shira Friedman
BLIND CREST (Monet Hurst-Mendoza)
Pictured: Workshop Production at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, featuring the graduating class of 2018.
Tyrell Johnson sits on Death Row for the double-murder of two undercover detectives. Mara Hernandez is a fresh-faced corrections officer, newly appointed to the night watch. Together, this unlikely pair, form an intense bond and make a pact to have a baby. Grappling with the power of identity, legacy, and sexuality in a maximum security prison, Blind Crest compels us to ask, “what is the value of a human life, and at what cost are we willing to fight for it?”
Commissioned by The Other Mirror Theatre, Drama League Rough Draft Residency (2015), The MITTEN Lab Kick-Off (Reading Presentation 2015), Magic Time Workshop at The Gym at Judson (August 2016).
GODS & KINGS (Music by Neil Doulas Reilly, Book and Lyrics by Austin Ruffer and Maggie Herskowitz)
A Theban king goes to pieces after snubbing the Greek god Dionysus and his pack of wild groupies in this alt-rock adaptation of Euripides's ripping tragedy The Bacchae
Creative Team: James Dobinson (Music Production), Taylor Shubert (Choreographer), Ben Williams (Lighting Designer) John Emmett O’Brien (Sound Designer), Caitlin Cisek and Matthew Malone (Costume Designers)
Workshopped by The Other Mirror and presented at the Sheen Center in 2014. A closed reading was presented by The Other Mirror in 2015.
Photos by Nick Ronan
LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY
Featuring orchestra on stage, cast, soloists, and video projection. The concert mixed various forms of media to engage children of all ages.
2015-2016 Season: Mozart and Dvorak
2016-2017 Season: Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Bernstein
Conducted by James Judd, with Book by Craig Shemin
Photos by Rachel Shane
ALBERT HERRING (Britten)
Boston Opera Collaborative
July 2014
"Katherine Carter’s staging is full of imaginative touches, like the way Lady Billows’s guests are squeezed together on her too-small settee, or the suggestive look Nancy gives Sid when she says she’s come 'for a piece of best English beef'.....Boston Opera Collaborative’s free presentation at the Strand Theatre is well staged, well sung, and, best of all, well acted." -Jeffery Gantz, Boston Globe
Creative Team: Andrew Altenbach (Conductor), Caitlin Cisek (Costume Designer), Shane Fuller (Set Designer), and Chris Bocchiaro (Lighting Designer).
Photos by Dan Busler
