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| Welcome to Wesleyan Weekend |
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Dona D. Vaughn has served as PORTopera's Artistic Director for six years, and prior to that was the company's Resident Stage Director. She also is Artistic Director of the Manhattan School of Music Opera Program, and for the past ten years has been stage director/acting coach for The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
Dona earned a bachelor's degree in music from Wesleyan and a master's in theater directing from Hunter College. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, and dance with Martha Graham. She began her career as a performer in the original Broadway productions of Company, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Seesaw. She was assistant to producer Kermit Bloomgarden for the Broadway productions of Equus and Hot L Baltimore, and Associate Producer for Pavel Kohout’s Poor Murderer and ABC Television’s All My Children. She has been a dramaturge for the O’Neill Conference on Opera and Musical Theater, HB Playwright’s Unit, and the University of Kansas New Play Season. She was Assistant Director for Tennessee Williams’s Red Devil Battery Sign starring Anthony Quinn and Claire Bloom, and subsequently directed that play and the public premiere of William's Spring Storm for New York's Ensemble Studio Theater.
Additional directing credits include New York City Opera, Wolf Trap, Michigan Opera Theater, Berkshire Opera, Dayton Opera, Syracuse Opera, Lincoln Center, New York Repertory Company, Kennedy Center, Minerva Productions, Peterloon Festival, Heritage Theater (Calgary, Canada), DiVivreVoix (Vivonne, France), Florida Arts Festival, and many colleges and universities across the country. She directed the premieres of Roberto Hazon’s L’Agenzia Matrimoniale, Francis Thorne’s Mario and the Magician, Ray Luc’s Droane’s Wooden Image and The Bullfrog, New York premieres of Milton Granger’s Talk Opera and The Proposal, off-Broadway production of Murphy Guyer’s World of Mirth, and the European premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s The Flower and the Hawk.
Dona often serves as an adjudicator for vocal competitions across the country including The Metropolitan Opera National Council, Denver Lyric Opera Competition, The Richard Tucker Foundation, and Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition. To learn more about Dona Vaughn's latest endeavor, visit:
http://www.portopera.org/index.php
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