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CREATIVE TEAM Yuval Sharon (Director) Yuval Sharon founded and serves as Artistic Director of The Industry. Named a “Face to Watch” in 2012 by The Los Angeles Times and “LA’s avantgarde opera darling” by the Hollywood Reporter , Yuval Sharon has been creating an unconventional body of work exploring the interdisciplinary potential of opera. His productions have been described as “powerful” ( New York Times) , "virtuosic" ( Opernwelt ), "dizzyingly spectacular” ( New York Magazine ), “ingenious” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and “staggering” ( Opera News ). Yuval directed a landmark production of John Cage SONG BOOKS at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, and Jessye Norman. He made his European debut with John Adams’ DOCTOR ATOMIC at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in a highly acclaimed production that made him the first American director to win the Götz Friedrich Prize in Germany. COMPOSERS Veronika Krausas The works of composer Veronika Krausas areperformed throughout Europe and North America, where she is recognized for her innovative use of dance, acrobatics and video. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes that "her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature's frozen objects are springing to life." Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said “Something novel this way comes.” Of Lithuanian heritage, she was born in Australia and raised in Canada. Krausas is currently a Professor in the Composition Department and the Director of Undergraduate Theory at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Marc Lowenstein Marc Lowenstein is the Music Director of The Industry. He has conducted the premieres of several new operas including THE MORTAL THOUGHTS OF LABY MACBETH, DICE THROWN, THE SCARLET LETTER, THE PEACH BLOSSOM FAN and WET, and the American premieres of Schaeffer’s LOVING and Aperghis’ SEXTOUR. For four years he conducted with the New York City Opera’s VOX new music festival and he has conducted on the Monday Evening Concert Series, with Jacaranda, with the Ear Unit, the Vinny Golia Ensemble, the Kadima Conservatory, the CalArts New Century Players, and Ensemble Green. He was the founder and music director of the Berkeley Contemporary Opera, a company that produced four seasons of contemporary operas. As a singer, he specializes in contemporary music and has performed over twentyfive opera roles including the premiere of WHAT TO WEAR by Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman. Marc has written a fulllength opera based on the screenplay to THE FISHER KING, is working on a children’s opera, and has written several shorter chamber works. He has been a professional whistler, plays klezmer clarinet, and he teaches theory, conducting, composition and history at CalArts. Andrew McIntosh Described in the Los Angeles Times as “an explorer into the cracks of intonation and the quirks of symmetry” , LAbased composer Andrew McIntosh is known for writing music with “soundscapes rich and immersive” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and has been heralded as “a shining example of the extraordinary music that the youngest generation of American experimentalists has to offer” (TEMPO). His music is regularly performed throughout the US and Europe, including several recent performances at the

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