James Darrah
Cameron Jaye Mock
James Darrah is a director and designer of theater, music, opera, and video. His uniquely collaborative and team-based focus through varied mediums has led him to be recognized as “the newest discovery . . . a gifted young American director” (Chicago Tribune) who “injects real drama” (New York Times) into productions that become “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” (Opera News). This season, his new productions and curated genre-bending installations have included works with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, wildUp, Merola Opera Program of San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Trinity Wall Street 12th Night Festival, and Opera Omaha. His past work has included collaborations with Peter Sellars in staging John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary in Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Lucerne, and work with Christopher Alden for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy. Mr. Darrah trained as a director-designer with the Croatian National Theater and holds a MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He has taught theater and performance for the Adler Fellowship Program of San Francisco Opera and UCLA.
Cameron Jaye Mock was most recently the scenic and lighting designer with Opera Omaha on their new production of John Adams’s A Flowering Tree, and scenic designer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in a co-production with the San Francisco Symphony. Recent productions also include Peter Grimes with the San Francisco Symphony, Don Giovanni with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Don Giovanni with San Francisco Opera’s Merola program, Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels with the LA Philharmonic, Radamisto with the Juilliard School, Semele with Pacific Musicworks, the world premiere of The Classical Style with Ojai Music Festival, Agrippina with Opera Omaha, and a multi-year project with the Latino Theater Company and Los Angeles Theater Center. Further opera credits include the West Coast premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight and Peter Brooks’s adaptation of Bizet with La tragédie de Carmen, as well as productions of Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, and All the King’s Men, as well as a staging of the oratorio L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato. He is a founding member of Chromatic.
Director and Choreographer
Severance Hall 2014-15
Scenography, Lighting, and Projection Design
Daphne: Creative Team
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