Stephanie Havey, Stage Director
“There was nothing in this production that did not leave me in awe. Every part of it was well-prepared, thoughtful, and deeply touching.”
“Stage director Stephanie Havey told highly dramatic story of THE CRUCIBLE in a realistic manner.... That kept the tension building until the end of the show. Havey made a point of letting the audience see the different personalities of various cast members”
“As One is directed by Stephanie Havey, who makes the most of every minute. . . Havey makes potent use of light boxes and lanterns that symbolize Hannah’s memories. The use of projections, courtesy of projections co-designers Nicholas Hussong and Nicholas Chimienti, also works.”
Winner of the Adelaide Bishop award for artistic quality and winner of the Opera America DirectorDesigner Showcase, Stephanie Havey has staged productions for Pittsburgh Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Arizona Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Omaha, New York City Opera, North Carolina Opera, and Hawaii Opera Theatre, as well as new productions of La rondine for The Curtis Institute of Music, Tosca for the Lyrique-en-mer International Festival de Belle-Ile, The Crucible for Opera Santa Barbara, Shining Brow for Tulsa Opera, Il matrimonio segreto for Carnegie Mellon University, Rigoletto for Syracuse Opera, Falstaff for Resonance Works Pittsburgh, and Gluck’s Armide for OperaNeo. She also has been a member of the staging staff at San Francisco Opera and The Santa Fe Opera.
The 2022-2023 season features many exciting engagements for Ms. Havey including her Opèra de Montrèal debut directing Madama Butterfly, as well as new productions of Le nozze di Figaro at Pittsburgh Opera and of Rigoletto at Utah Symphony and Opera. In recent seasons, Ms. Havey staged Carmen at Arizona Opera, As One at The Atlanta Opera, which OperaWire hailed as, “well-prepared, thoughtful, and deeply touching,” Orpheus in the Underworld at Madison Opera and Manhattan School of Music, and The Merry Widow at Charlottesville Opera. Other recent engagements include Il barbiere di Siviglia with Finger Lakes Opera as well as postponed or cancelled productions The Pirates of Penzance and Rigoletto with Virginia Opera, and Eugene Onegin with Minnesota Opera. a new production of Norma for Boston Lyric Opera, and La Traviata with Hawaii Opera Theatre.
Ms. Havey was selected to participate in San Diego Opera’s theatre innovation project “Opera Hack,” a two-year project funded by an Opera America Innovation Grant to discover new ways for technology to be used in the production and presentation of opera. She also had the honor of hosting the 2019 Opera America Director-Designer Showcase at the National Conference in San Francisco as a returning alumna.
Ms. Havey is a frequent collaborator for the development of new opera, staging new works with Opera Philadelphia for their Double Exposure event, Opera America’s New Works Forum, and as the Resident Stage Director for North American New Opera Workshop.
During her two seasons as the first Resident Artist Stage Director for the Pittsburgh Opera, she received rave reviews for her new production of Il matrimonio segreto and directed numerous productions and a staged recital series in the Opera Studio.
Ms. Havey has been a guest instructor for Young Artist training programs, including Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Central City Opera, Tulsa Opera, OperaNeo, Opera North, University of Delaware, and the Florida State Opera.