Sara Widzer Sara E.Widzer, a native of Los Angeles, CA, has enjoyed success as an actress, but works primarily as a stage director and acting coach. Most recently, Ms. Widzer directed G.F. Handels Giulio Cesare and Charles Gounods Faust for Celestial Opera Company of South Pasadena, CAs 2008-2009 season. Other Southern California directing credits include: As You Like It, Warhol style, Midnight Summer Nights Dream, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, This is Where We Came In, The Sea Gull, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Zoo Story The Lee Strasberg Creative Center, Hollywood, CA); Shakespeare is Dead, Curse of the Golden Rose (The Actors Gang, Los Angeles, CA); Bootleggers, Kalamazoo, Dinner and a Funeral (the Actors Studio West, Los Angeles, CA). Regionally: Spring Awakening (Tansill Black Box Theatre, New London, CT). Ms. Widzer is a member of the Actors Studio: Playwright Directors Unit where she workshops new plays with some of Los Angeles most esteemed writers. Ms. Widzer teaches acting and voice/speech for the actor to adults and children at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles, California. She is also on staff at the Young Actors Studio, and at other performing arts studios around the Los Angeles area. Ms. Widzer has a Bachelor of Arts from Connecticut College in Directing and Acting, and additional certificates from the British American Dramatic Academy and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ms. Widzer will be stage director for Tosca and Don Giovanni at OIO for the 2010 season.
Alan E. Hicks Director In his nearly twenty-year career, stage director Alan E. Hicks work has run the gamut of the musical arts including instrumental performance and conducting, operatic performance, and theatrical and operatic stage direction. Described as a pleasing baritone of great promise, Alan performed with Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, and Opera Northeast as well as concerts and recitals across the United States. In 1998, Alan originated the title role in the Virginia Operas world premiere production of Seymour Barabs The Pied Piper of Hamelin. From 2002-2006, Alan served on the faculties of the internationally-acclaimed Actors Studio Drama School and American Academy of Dramatic Arts, both in New York City. Alans former students have performed on Broadway (in Gypsy with Patti LaPone), television (CBS: Three Rivers, NBC: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Fox: Lie to Me), and in major motion pictures (Overture Films: Traitor, 2008). As a director, Alans work has been described as gorgeous, maturely-realized, and real magic. A new production of Carlisle Floyds Susannah, conceived and directed by Alan for the University of Texas at Austin, won First Prize in the 2007-2008 National Opera Associations Opera Production Competition. Alan has served on the staffs of Chautauqua Opera, Tulsa Opera, and Central City Opera. He returned to Tulsa Opera in January of 2010 to direct the touring production of The Elixir of Love and recently directed Orfeo ed Euridice for Palm Beach Opera's Resident Artist Program. Upcoming projects include Carmen, Dido and Aeneas, LElisir dAmore and Trouble in Tahiti. Alan is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists and Actors Equity Association.
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