Tim Ocel

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Theater and opera director Tim Ocel has directed productions for organizations ranging from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to Shakespeare Santa Cruz to Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York to the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. He has been artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company, artistic associate of Geva Theatre, and an associate professor of opera at the University of Kansas.

[edit] Life and career

Raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ocel received his bachelor of theater arts degree from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1981. In Baltimore, Maryland he worked as a stage manager with the Baltimore Opera Company and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Also stage managing at Central City Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Tulsa Opera, Opera/Omaha, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, he was involved with more than 75 productions before accepting a position as associate artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company in 1991. Ocel became artistic director of STC's 1995-1996 season before moving to St. Louis, Missouri to freelance and reside with his partner, artist and graphic designer Peter Shank.

[edit] Productions as director

Productions for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis include:

• Carmen
• La bohème
• Haydn’s Armida
• American premiere of Alexander Goehr’s Arianna

Productions for Lyric Opera of Kansas City include:

• Billy Budd
• The Elixir of Love
• Salome
• Verdi’s Macbeth
• Un Ballo in Maschera

For Boston Lyric Opera:

• Tosca
• Leonard Bernstein's Candide

Opera Pacific and Tulsa Opera:

• The Marriage of Figaro

Michigan Opera Theater

• Lucia di Lammermoor

Productiions for Shakespeare Santa Cruz include:

• Twelfth Night
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• As You Like It
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Taming of the Shrew

Productions for the Sacramento Theatre Company include:

• Much Ado About Nothing
• Measure for Measure
• Machiavelli’s The Mandrake
• The Richard Hellesen-David de Berry musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July
• A Raisin in the Sun
• The Good Person of Setzuan
• Sophocles’ Electra,
• Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge
• Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

For Theatre Emory in Atlanta, Georgia:

• The Good Person of Setzuan
• George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah

For Geva Theatre:

• The Illusion
• Twelve Angry Men
• Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady

For the University of Kansas:

• The Crucible
• Faust
• Cosi fan tutte
• Candide
• The Marriage of Figaro

[edit] External link

Tim Ocel, University of Kansas [1]