GUEST ARTISTS

Steven Osgood

Steven Osgood is the General and Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Opera Company.

Mr. Osgood’s engagements for the 2022-2023 season include a return to The Metropolitan Opera as assistant conductor for La traviata, Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up at The Juilliard School and Street Scene at Rice University. Last season included rescheduled performances of Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage’s highly successful Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theatre, and he joined the Metropolitan Opera as assistant conductor for their acclaimed production of Akhnaten. The 2023-24 season will feature his conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera for performances of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

In recent seasons Steve conducted the world premieres of Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia, JFK at Fort Worth Opera, The Scarlet Ibis, Thumbprint, and Sumeida’s Song for the PROTOTYPE Festival, as well as Missy Mazzoli’s Song From the Uproar with Beth Morrison Projects. He was the 2017 Conductor Mentor for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, conducting the premieres of Adam, Lifeboat, and What Gets Kept. Other notable productions include the critically acclaimed world premiere of Xenakis’s Oresteia at the Miller Theater, Tan Dun’s Marco Polo with De Nederlandse Opera, La traviata and La bohème with Edmonton Opera; The Ballad of Baby Doe, Peter Grimes and Tosca at Chautauqua Opera; Glory Denied, The Rape of Lucretia, Bon Appetit! and This Is the Rill Speaking with Opera Memphis; Three Decembers at Atlanta Opera; Dead Man Walking at Lyric Opera of Kansas City; The Long Walk at Utah Opera; Tosca at Hawaii Opera Theater; and Stephen Schwartz’s Seance on a Wet Afternoon and Massenet’s La Navarraise with New York City Opera.

Isa Chacon

Josh Epstein has collaborated with director Lawrence Edelson for over 15 years. He has designed lighting at many of the top regional opera and theater companies in the country including the Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Geffen Playhouse, Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Virginia Opera, South Coast Repertory, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Opera Saratoga, Baltimore Center Stage, Opera Santa Barbara, Trinity Repertory Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Josh is on faculty at Chapman University’s College of Performing Arts in Southern California. He is a Los Angeles Ovation Award and National Knight of Illumination Award winner and a Washington, D.C. Helen Hayes Award nominee. He was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers and currently serves on the O’Neill Playwrights Conference Artistic Council. Josh received his M.F.A. from NYU and lives in LA with his wife and three daughters. www.joshepsteindesign.com

Jeremy Garc A

Ryan Mcgettigan is a scenic designer for theatre, opera, and dance. He is the resident designer at Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster, MA and has been a company artist with Prague Shakespeare Company and the Classical Theatre Company. Houston: TUTS, Stages Repertory, Catastrophic, Main Street Theater, AD Players, 4th Wall. Awards for Best Scenic Design from Houston Press in 2015, 2019, and 2020. Regional: Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Cape Rep, Abilene Shakespeare Festival, Prague Shakespeare. Opera and Dance: Glimmerglass Festival, New Orleans Opera, Opera San Jose, HGOco, Rice’s Shephered School and Moody

Center for the Arts, Asia Society Open Dance Project. www.RyanMcGettigan.com