About

KATHERINE M. CARTER (she/her) is a stage director of theatre & opera based in New York City. This season, Katherine leads new productions of L’elisir d’amore (Manhattan School of Music), The Merry Widow (Sarasota Opera), Hansel and Gretel (Annapolis Opera-debut), and returns The Rose Theater in Omaha to direct a new production of Disney’s Frozen. Katherine will reunite with Steven Blier on 100 years of Broadway Love with New York Festival of Song at The Juilliard School.

Last season, Katherine created a “triumphant” new staging of Nabucco for the Canadian Opera Company, which opened the company’s season. She returned to Wolf Trap Opera to lead a “stirring” new production of Dialogues des Carmélites. Katherine also made her house debuts at the Aspen Music Festival and San Francisco Opera, both with stagings of La bohème.

Her work has been seen at Houston Grand Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Sarasota Opera, On Site Opera, The Alley Theatre, The Rose Theatre, Parallel 45 Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Boston Lyric Opera, The Little Orchestra Society, Playwrights Horizons, 54 Below, Boston Opera Collaborative, and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.  

Frequently in demand for her work with young artists and students, she has been a guest at some of opera’s leading training programs including The Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. Katherine has also led productions and workshops at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes Opera, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, Rice University, the New School for Drama, Interlochen Academy for the Arts, the University of Michigan, and the National Opera Association.

Katherine has been awarded fellowships and residencies with New Georges, Wolf Trap Opera, The Drama League, and Playwrights Horizons.

 As a strong advocate for new resources and channels for new play development, Katherine co-founded The MITTEN Lab, a weeklong residency in northern Michigan for emerging theatre artists. Previously, Katherine founded The Other Mirror Theatre Company to produce socially conscious work through adaptations for the stage.

Katherine is a certified Intimacy Director through IDC Professionals. As a proud consent forward director, Katherine advocates for the foundations of intimacy to be present in every project. She serves as an Intimacy Director for the Metropolitan Opera.