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

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

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

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

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

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.