Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.