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 Artistic Director of Opera Programs
Ms. Vaughn is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s):
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| | | Dona D. Vaughn (Artistic Director of Opera Programs and Director of Undergraduate Opera Theater) also serves as Artistic Director of PORTopera in Portland, Maine. For the past ten years she has been Stage Director/Acting Coach for The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. A graduate of Brevard College (voice) where she currently serves on the board of trustees, she received her BA in music (vocal performance) from Wesleyan (Outstanding Alumni Award) and the MA in theater from Hunter College. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, and dance with Martha Graham. She began her career as a performer in the original Broadway productions of Company, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Seesaw. Assistant to producer Kermit Bloomgarden for Broadway productions of Equus and Hot L Baltimore. Associate producer for Pavel Kohout’s Poor Murderer and ABC Television’s All My Children. Dramaturge for the O’Neill Conference on Opera and Musical Theater, HB Playwright’s Unit, University of Kansas New Play Season. Assistant director for Tennessee Williams’s Red Devil Sign, and stage manager for In Celebration of Lillian Hellman (directed by Mike Nichols and Arvin Brown) at Circle-in-the-Square. Directing credits include New York City Opera, Michigan Opera Theater ,Wolf Trap, Berkshire Opera, Dayton Opera, Syracuse Opera, Ensemble Studio Theater, Lincoln Center, New York Repertory Company, Kennedy Center, Minerva Productions, Peterloon Festival, Heritage Theater (Calgary, Canada), DiVivreVoix (Vivonne, France), Florida Arts Festival, and many colleges and universities across the country. She directed the premieres of Roberto Hazon’s L’Agenzia Matrimoniale, Francis Thorne’s Mario and the Magician, Ray Luc’s Droane’s Wooden Image and The Bullfrog, New York premieres of Milton Granger’s Talk Opera and The Proposal, off-Broadway production of Murphy Guyer’s World of Mirth, and the European premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s The Flower and the Hawk. Formerly a member of the voice faculties for SUNY-Plattsburgh and Marymount Manhattan College, she often serves as an adjudicator for vocal competitions including: The Metropolitan Opera National Council, The Richard Tucker Foundation, Denver Lyric Opera, Palm Beach Opera and The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Artist-in-Training Program.
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 1994.
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