Nathan Troup BIOGRAPHY

Stage Director Nathan Troup returns to the Castleton Festival in 2011 to direct William Kerley's productions of Il tabarro, Gianni Schicchi,
and A Soldier's Tale with Maestro Lorin Maazel and Master Pedro's Puppet Show with New York City's Puppet Kitchen, as well as assistant
direct Seven Deadly Sins and L'enfant et les sortilèges. In fall of 2011, Nathan joins the opera faculty of the Boston Conservatory and
currently serves on the faculty of the Boston University Opera Institute. A proponent of new works, he recently served as program
assistant for New York City's American Lyric Theatre, dedicated to the development of new opera for new audiences, and served as
dramatic coach for the series of premiere pieces Opera in Eden to be performed at Symphony Space in June 2011. Nathan's work achieved
national attention with his original staging of Curtis K. Hughes' Say It Ain't So, Joe (a new work based on the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden
2008 Vice Presidential debates) commissioned by Guerilla Opera. Of his recent staging of Carmen for Boston Opera Collaborative, the
Boston Musical Intelligencer stated "The stage direction under Nathan Troup was impressive: soloists, dancers and chorus moved fluently
and purposefully on stage, the action always aligned with the story." Nathan's staging of Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad
King for Collage New Music received "Best of Boston 2009" recognition from the Boston Phoenix. Nathan has directed Dido and Aeneas and
Gianni Schicchi and has assisted main stage productions of Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, La Bohème, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor
and Susannah at Boston University's Opera Institute and has assistant directed for Opera Boston. He has served on the opera faculty of
the New England Conservatory and as guest director at Webster University in St. Louis. Nathan is dedicated to fostering arts and
artists within the local and global communities and serves as an outreach educator in youth juvenile detention facilities. June 2011

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