Florentine Opera
Milwaukee, WI, 2025

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Librettist: John Gay

Director: E. Loren Meeker
Scenic Designer: Ryan McGettigan
Costume Designer: Erik Teague
Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Photos courtesy of the Florentine Opera and Traveling Lemur Productions

Florida Grand Opera
Ziff Ballet Opera House, Miami, Florida
2025

Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Felici Romani

Director: Matt Cooksey
Scenic Designer: Constantine Kritikos
Costume Designer: Johan Engels
Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

West Edge Opera
Oakland, CA

Composer: Luna Pearl Woolf
Libretto: Royce Vavrek

Production Director: Michael Hidetoshi Mori
Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Jacqueline: Marnie Breckenridge
Cello: Matt Haimovitz

2024, Photos courtesy of Cory Weaver/West Edge Opera

Austin Opera, The Long Center for Performing Arts

Music by Georges Bizet, Libretto by Henri Meilhac & Ludvig Halévy

Director: Rebecca Hermann

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Scenic Designer: R. Keith Brumley

Costume Designer: Susan Memmott Allred

2024, Photos Courtesy of Erich Schlegel

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL

World Premiere Musical

Written & Composed by Matthew C. Yee

Director: Amanda Dehnert
Scenic Designer: Yu Shibagaki
Costume Designer: Sully Ratke
Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau
Sound Designer: Andre Pluess
Projections Designer: Paul Deziel

2023, Photos courtesy of Liz Lauren

Opera Columbus, The Ohio Theatre

Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Director: Eve Summer

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Neil Fortin

2023, Photos Courtesy of Terry Gilliam

Opera Columbus, Southern Theatre

Music by Ástor Piazzolla
Libretto by Horacio Ferrer

Director: Dennis Whitehead Darling

Scenic Designer: Julia Noulin-Merát

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Gerardo Encinas

2023, Photos Courtesy of Terry Gilliam

Opera Saratoga, The Egg, The Kitty Carlisle Hart Theater

Music by Lembit Beecher
Libretto by Hannah Mascovitch

Director: Lawrence Edelson

Scenic Designer: Julia Noulin-Merát

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Whitney Locher

2022, Photos courtesy of Gary David Gold

The Atlanta Opera, Pullman Yards

A Chamber Opera by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed

Director: Stephanie Havey

Scenic Designer: Emma Antenen

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Erik Teague

Projections Designers: Nicholas Chimienti & Nicholas Hussong

2022, Photos courtesy of Rafterman

The Atlanta Opera, Pullman Yards

Cabaret
by Joe Masteroff
Music & Book: John Kander, Fred Ebb

Director: Tomer Zvulun
Choreographer: Ricardo Aponte

Scenic Designer: Alexander Dodge

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Erik Teague

Projections Designers: Nicholas Hussong & Nicholas Chimienti

Sound Designer: Jon Summers

2022, Photos courtesy of Rafterman and Ken Howard

Village Theatre, Issaquah, WA

Music & Lyrics: Clark Gesner
Book: John Gordon

Director: Jimmy Shields

Scenic Designer: Christopher Mumaw

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Melanie Burgess

2022

Austin Opera

Music by Mason Bates
Libretto by Mark Campbell

Director: Tomer Zvulun

Scenic & Costume Designer: Jacob A. Climer

Projections Designer: S. Katy Tucker

Lighting Designers: Robert Wierzel & Marcella Barbeau (Austin Opera only)

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs is a co-production between Austin Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and The Atlanta Opera.

2022, Photos courtesy of Eric Schlegel/Austin Opera

Playhouse on Park, West Hartford, CT

Book: Clarke Peters
Music: Louis Jordan

Director & Choreographer: Brittney Griffin

Scenic Designer: James F. Rotondo

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Vilinda Veronica

Sound Designer: Ethan Gueldenzopf

2022, Photos courtesy of Meredith Longo

The Atlanta Opera’s Molly Blank Big Tent Series, April 2021
The Threepenny Carmen was a world premiere of Georges Bizet’s Carmen in the COVID Pandemic

Director: Tomer Zvulun

Scenic Designer: Julia Noulin-Mérat

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer: Joanna Schmink

Wig & Make-up Designer: Brie Hall

Projections Designer: Erin Teachman

Photos courtesy of Greg Mooney and Chris Heller

The Atlanta Opera’s Molly Blank Big Tent Series, April 2021

Play by Bertolt Brecht
Libretto by Kurt Weill

Director: Tomer Zvulun

Scenic Designer: Julia Noulin-Mérat

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau

Costume Designer and content artist: Erik Teague

Wig & Make-up Designer: Brie Hall

Projections Designer: Erin Teachman

Puppets designed and constructed by The Center for Puppetry Arts

Photos courtesy of Greg Mooney

Gloucester Stage’s True West by Sam Shepard

Gorton stage, Gloucester, MA

Director: Joe Short

Scenic Designer: Jon Savage

Lighting Designer: Marcella Barbeau *received 2018 IRNE nomination for Best Lighting Design - Play

Costume Designer: Miranda Lee Giurleo

Sound Designer: David Reiffel