Stage Director - Now Booking for Fall 2011 and beyond!
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Deborah Grossman (mezzo-soprano/pianist) is a Stage Director and Educator, specializing in Opera, Operetta, and Musical Theater.
Most recent productions:
Director -- Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) and Opera Scenes, Bel Cantanti Opera/Catholic University Summer Opera Festival
Director -- Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) and Opera Scenes, Bel Cantanti Opera/Catholic University Summer Opera Festival
Director -- La Belle Helene (Offenbach), Victorian Lyric Opera Company, Rockville, MD
Director -- Coffee Cantata (Bach) and Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti), Bel Cantanti Opera Company, Rockville, MD
Director -- A Year with Frog and Toad, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Director -- Opera Goes to the Theatre (scenes), Forgotten Opera Company, Alexandria, VA
Asst. Director/Stage Manager -- Romeo et Juliette, Bel Cantanti Opera Company
Asst. Director/Stage Manager -- L'Italiana in Algeri, Bel Cantanti Opera Company
Stage Manager -- The Pirates of Penzance, Washington Savoyards, Washington, D.C.
Director -- Opera Goes to the Theatre (scenes), Forgotten Opera Company, Alexandria, VA
Asst. Director/Stage Manager -- Romeo et Juliette, Bel Cantanti Opera Company
Asst. Director/Stage Manager -- L'Italiana in Algeri, Bel Cantanti Opera Company
Stage Manager -- The Pirates of Penzance, Washington Savoyards, Washington, D.C.
A Maryland native, Deborah Grossman started her directing career here in DC with an internship at Arena Stage, and then directed and choreographed productions for Source Theater, Opera Americana, Horizons Theater, American Playwrights Theater, Adventure Theater, the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and Victoria Lyric Opera Company.
Ms. Grossman was gone from the DC area from 1994-2005, directing, producing, and stage managing in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Cambridge, England. In the S.F. Bay Area she directed for the Livermore Valley Opera, Pocket Opera, Oakland Lyric Opera, and the Pinole Community Players, as well as stage managing for the San Francisco Opera Center and A.C.T. Conservatory, and producing for California Revels. In England, she worked with the Cambridge Gilbert & Sullivan Society, the Cambridge Opera Society, and the ADC Theatre.
Since returning to the DC area in 2005, she has directed for Bel Cantanti, the Victorian Lyric Opera Company, the Forgotten Opera Company, and Montgomery College/Rockville; music directed summer camp productions and workshops for Imagination Stage and Adventure Theatre; produced and stage managed The Christmas Revels for Washington Revels; and stage managed a number of productions for the Washington Savoyards.
Ms. Grossman trained in piano and voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In addition to directing and stage managing, she teaches private voice and musical theatre classes at Imagination Stage, and does occasional rehearsal accompanying.
