Dugg McDonough, winner of The American Prize for Opera Directing,
has created productions garnering 16 national awards over the past
four years.

In his 40-plus-year career that began as Assistant Director for The Santa Fe Opera’s American Premiere of the completed Lulu, McDonough has staged works from Monteverdi to contemporary premieres, working with companies including New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Des Moines Metro Opera, New Orleans Opera Association, Opéra Louisiane, Pensacola Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Omaha, OperaDelaware, Knoxville Opera, Chattanooga Opera, New York Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Ash Lawn-Highland Festival, Land of Enchantment Opera, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Center for Contemporary Opera of New York, Taipei international Arts Festival, Theatre West Virginia, and Operafestival di Roma.

A veteran mentor for emerging singer-actors, he was Co-Director of the Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Artist Program from 1993-2012, and his workshops, classes, and productions have taken him to the University of Tennessee, University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, and the countries of Switzerland, Finland, and Japan.

From 1985-2002, McDonough served as Director of Opera Theater for Temple University, and in 2002, he became the Fruehan Associate Professor of Opera and Artistic Director of the Turner-Fischer Center for Opera at Louisiana State University, where he has staged over 70 productions.

At LSU, he has created the Collegiate Premieres of Little/Vavrek’s Dog Days, Puts/Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree, Heggie/Scheer’s Two Remain, Glass’ Orphée, Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg, Brandt’s Kassandra, and Candey’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba.

McDonough is a proud member of Marvel Arts Management. You can find out more about Dugg at his website.