DAVID LEFKOWICH 

STAGE DIRECTOR, FIGHT DESIGNER

David Lefkowich is an accomplished stage director and fight choreographer and has enjoyed success with different companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatre alla Scala, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera.  Directing credits include Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Histoire du Soldat, and Don Giovanni at the Ravinia Music Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Maestro James Conlon conducting. David also directed L’Histoire du Soldat at the Juilliard School, with Maestro Conlon.  He made his European debut directing Le Portrait de Manon at the Gran Teatre Liceu in Barcelona, Spain and followed with The Rake’s Progress at La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium.  Other credits include directing and choreographing Salome (Minnesota Opera); Il Trovatore (New Orleans Opera, Fort Worth Opera Festival); Roméo et Juliette (Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Tampa, Seagle Music Colony), Cosi fan tutte and La Traviata (Opera Saratoga) and Le Portrait de Manon (Glimmerglass Opera).  He was also thrilled to fight direct the world premieres of Appomattox (Philip Glass) at San Francisco Opera, and Miss Lonelyhearts at the Juilliard Opera Center, La fanciulla del west at the New York City Opera and the New York off-Broadway run of A Clockwork Orange.  David is a guest artist and performs master classes at several Young Artist programs and universities including the Atelier Lyrique de L’Opéra de Montréal, Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Program, Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artist Program, the Juilliard School, McGill School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory and Ithaca College.  A graduate from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Theatre, David has a certificate from École Jacques-Lecoq in Paris, France.  Upcoming projects include directing and choreographing Roméo et Juliette at Florida Grand Opera and La Bohème at the Fort Worth Opera Festival.