DirectorBio

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Director Diane Machin has worked with theaters, universities, and festivals throughout America. Her piece “Young Gods” that she wrote and directed premiered at the Performing Garage, home of the Wooster Group in November 2019, and her script received a Story Summit Founder’s Award. Opera credits include her modern adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's Bagatelle, a Christmas themed Gianni Schicchi, and her current work on the new climate change opera “A Storm We Call Progress.” In May of 2020 Machin was awarded a 2020 JoElyn Wakefield-Wright Stage Director Fellowship from the National Opera Association. The short film she directed and edited while in quarantine “The Product” is now an official selection at the Indie Short Fest and Dumbo Film Festival. Since the COVID-19 pandemic Machin has been dedicated to bringing theatre and opera online and believes the fusion of these artforms with technology, advances the art and creates more accessibility.