Kathleen Stakenas (Director)-  Recent credits include Director for An Evening of American Opera and Slow Dusk (Florida State Opera); Assistant Director for Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Opera Theatre St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Colorado), Ariadne auf Naxos (Indianapolis Opera); Production Stage Manager for Madame White Snake (Opera Boston- February 2010), Two Widows,Orpheus and the Underworld and Carmen (Bronx Opera); Die Fledermaus (Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre); Coronation of Poppea (Opera Omnia); Madama Butterfly (Boston Lyric Opera); Barber of Seville (Lake George Opera); Iolanthe (Nashville Opera); MM Opera Production: directing emphasis from Florida State University