Julia Mintzer

I am a director, performer, creator, and teacher with a background in opera and an interest in all kinds of live performance and mixed media. I am experienced in working with animation and dance.
 
I've completed the Royal Opera House's Mentorship Programme, and I've been nominated for two Off West End Awards for Best Opera Production (Der Vampyr and Bluebeard's Castle for Gothic Opera.) My interactive theater piece Pizza Parlance was listed in Nombre Art Magazine's "5 Must-Sees of Venice Biennale" and revived for NWR-Forum Düsseldorf and adapted for film for the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art .   I was a National Opera Association Directing Fellow (US) and have staged new work at the Helsinki Festival and Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. I'll direct East West Street at the Alliance Francaise in Washington DC this December.
 
I'm also an opera singer, and have performed leading roles with Theater an der Wien, Welsh National Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Dresden Semperoper.

I've led seminars at the University of Cologne's Institute for Art and Art Theory, and have been a guest lecturer at University of Liverpool and Catholic University (Washington, DC.)  I am a Juilliard grad, with additional studies at Columbia University.

With a decade of experience behind me in opera and devised work, I'm excited to explore directing more straight plays and musicals. 

Pronouns: she, her

Credits

Director, Le nozze di Figaro, Hampstead Garden Opera, 2 weeks, 2021

Director, Bread and Circuses: The Wrestling Opera, REACH Wrestling, 1 day R&D, 2021

Director, Bluebeard's Castle, Gothic Opera, 1 week, 2021

Director, Seven and a Half Years, OSO Arts Centre, 1 week, 2021

Director and Co-writer, On Behalf of a Madman, The OVO Maltings Theatre/ 2 weeks, 2020-21

Director, Bread and Circuses: The Wrestling Opera (showcase), Tete a Tete Festival/The Cockpit and The Playground Theatre, 1 week, 2020

Director, Savitri, Hampstead Garden Opera / Lauderdale House, 2 weeks, 2020

Director, Atalanta Fugiens, Ensemble Plus Ultra (upcoming short films), 2021

Stage Director, Der Vampyr, Gothic Opera / Peckham Asylum and The Old Church, 1 week, 2019

Stage Director, La Rondine Delaware Valley Opera Company/Venice Island Performing Arts Center, 1 week, 2019

Director, Vergin tutto Amor 24; The Pleiades Project (short film) 2019

Director/Curator/Writer, On Behalf of a Madman, Grand Harmonie / Sommerville Armory, 1 week, 2018

Director/Creator, Pizza Parlance, NWR-Forum Dusseldorf, 2018

Assistant Director, Rigoletto, Charlottesville Opera, 2017

Stage Director, La Bohème, MassOpera/ Mosesian Center for the Arts, 1 week, 2017

Stage Director, L'elisir d'amore, Bel Cantanti Opera/ The Randolph Theatre, 1 week, 2016

Stage Director, Fidelio, Grand Harmonie and Princeton University/ Richardson Auditorium, 1 week, 2016

Stage, Director Sissy is to Bassarid, Helsinki Festival (Music Theater Creation Lab), 2016

Stage Director, I want it in writing…, Cornell University (Society for the Humanities), 2016

Director/Creator, Pizza Parlance, Venice Biennale, 2015

Director/Creator, Chacun a son gout, STORE Contemporary, (Dresden) 2015

Stage Director, Weihnachtshistorie, The Weckmann Project/Music Nuova, 2015

Stage Director, The Old Maid and the Thief, Hubbard Hall Opera Theater, 2015

Training

National Opera Association's JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Directing Fellowship 2017

Opera Academy of Verona, Cartooning in Opera Workshop, 2016

Boston University Opera Institute 2008-10

Bachelor of Music, The Juilliard School (Presidential Distinction) 2003-08

Studies, Columbia University (Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology) 2003-08