Zack Winokur
Director
Recent highlights include: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Santa Fe Opera; a new piece created with Teddy Abrams for the Louisville Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Davóne Tines and National Park Guides in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky; Only an Octave Apart (“a glittering, disarming, poignant reminder of why theater exists”—W Magazine) featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond with new arrangements by Nico Muhly at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the NYPhilharmonic, and Opera Philadelphia; Eastman, a commission from Little Island’s inaugural festival centering the work and life of composer Julius Eastman; his “rich, seamless” (The New York Times) production of The Black Clown, at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and the American Repertory Theater; his “darkly captivating” (The New York Times) production of Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine, by Tyshawn Sorey and Claudia Rankine, starring Julia Bullock on the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and other productions at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, Stanford Live.
Winokur is co-founder and Artistic Director of AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company); served as Artistic Director of NYPopsUp, a sprawling state Governor’s initiative to reopen the performing arts across NY State with over 300 free and public performances featuring hundred of artists from February to July 2021; and co-teaches, with Davóne Tines, a transdisciplinary storytelling class at Harvard.
Photo by JJ Geiger.