MARCUSASHIELDS@GMAIL.COM
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA, MEROLA OPERA, WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA, THE CURTIS INSTITUTE, THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL, THE ATLANTA OPERA, THE CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE, THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CINCINNATI OPERA, ARIZONA OPERA, DES MOINES METRO OPERA, OPERA THEATRE ST. LOUIS, THE SANTA FE OPERA, AND OPERA NATIONAL DE LYON.
COMPANIES I HAVE FOUNDED/ CO-FOUNDED:
CV - 2025
creative
LA PASSION de SIMON / DIRECTOR / CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC / 2026
THE GLITCH / DIRECTOR / CATAPULT OPERA / 2025
VERY FERAL TODAY / DIRECTOR / AJ CREATIVE x DUO ETRANGE / 2025
MADAME BUTTERFLY / DIRECTOR / COLORADO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / 2025
NOZZE di FIGARO / DIRECTOR / CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC / 2025
UUN (MIDAIR FOR SOMETIME) / film co-director, sound - camera - editing, process photography / JACK THEATER / 2024
l’enfant / director - adaptation - mise en scene/ chautauqua conservatory / 2023
July 23rd, 2023 / director - sound designer / chautauqua conservatory / 2023
uun (film performance) @ HERe / film co-director, sound - camera - editing, process photography / Here arts center NYC / 2023
La Voix / director - video - sound designer / curtis institute of music / 2023
wild party documentary part 2 / director - editor/ UUN collective - asl wild party / 2023
uun (film performance) @ CPR / film co-director, sound - camera - editing, process photography / Cpr NY / 2022
The secret Garden / director - adaptation - mise en scene / chautauqua conservatory / 2022
“bad choices” by Lachi (music video) / co-director - video - editing / SOUL SIGNS 5 / 2022
wild party documentary part 1 / documentary - editor / uun collective - asl wild party / 2022
UPUNTILNOW (film) / film co-director, sound - camera - editing, process photography / uun, broad stream / 2022
GEORGIA midnight moment installation / Cinematography - editing / Times square midnight moment / 2021
Soul SIgns part 1 - 4 / cinematography - editing / uun, broad stream / 2021
The glitch / commissioner - director - video / catapult opera / 2021
where once we sang / cinematography - editing / beth morrison projects / 2020
accelerate competition / director, producer / catapult opera / 2020
La Calisto / Director - adaptation - mise en scene / Liberty exhibition hall / 2019
Tosca/ director / madison theatre / 2018
Bernstein’s Mass / director / cincinnati symphony orchestra, may festival chorus / 2018
idomeneo / director / college conservatory of music, university of cincinnati / 2017
bolcom cabaret / director / National museum for women in the arts, DC / 2017
la vida breve / director, lighting / cincinnati chamber opera / 2016
bolcom cabaret / director / neue gallerie NYC / 2016
joan of arc (honnegar) / director / college conservatory of music, university of cincinnati / 2016
bolcom cabaret / director / college conservatory of music, university of cincinnati / 2015
Associate/ Ass’t director (selected)
staff director metropolitan opera (2019 - current)
ARABELLA / ASS’t Director / metropolitan OPERA /2025
Don giovanni / revival director / metropolitan opera/ 2025
ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA / ASS’T DIRECTOR / METROPOLITAN OPERA / 2025
AIDA (MAYER) / ASS’T DIRECTOR / METROPOLITAN OPERA / 2024
GROUNDED (mayer) / Associate Director / Metropolitan Opera / 2024
El nino / Ass’T Director / METROPOLITAN OPERA / 2024
Grounded (mayer) / Associate director / washington national opera / 2023
Dead man walking (van hove) / associate director / metropolitan opera / 2023
Don Giovanni (van hove) / associate director / metropolitan opera / 2023
der rosenkavalier (carsen) ass’t director / metropolitan opera / 2023
candide (fish) / associate director / opera de lyon / 2022
don carlos (mcvicar) / ass’t director / metropolitan opera / 2022
lucia di lammermoore (stone) / ass’t director / metropolitan opera / 2022
cinderella (pelly) / ass’t director / metropolitan opera / 2021
eurydice / ass’t director / metropolitan opera / 2021
fellow travelers / director (revival) / des moines metro opera / 2021
agrippina (mcvicar) / ass’t director / metropolitan opera / 2020
fellow travelers / director / arizona opera / 2019
cosi fan tutte (schlather) / ass’t director/ santa fe opera / 2019
rigoletto / ass’t director / opera theatre saint louis./ 2019
Administration
co-founder / alexander jane creative / 2021
co-founder / up until now collective / 2021
digital projects manager / catapult opera / 2021 - 2022
co-founder / ossia productions / 2020
founding executive director / catapult opera / 2018 - 2021
TEACHING
Guest stage director / chautauqua opera conservatory / 2022 - 2023
guest stage director / des moines metro opera / 2020 - 2021
visiting ass’t professor / opera department / college conservatory of music, UC / 2018 - 2019
training
merola opera program, Stage directing fellow
wolf trap opera, stage directing fellow
Metropolitan opera, stage directing fellow
artist diploma , opera stage direction, college conservatory of music, UC
M.M., vocal performance, college conservatory of music, UC
B.M., performance, musicology, Northwestern University