In productions of more than 90 operas nationwide, the American director has focused frequently on new, contemporary, and American works. In addition to Flight, career highlights include Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick and Dead Man Walking; world premieres of Kirke Mechem’s John Brown, Ethan Gans-Morse’s The Canticle of the Black Madonna, and Louis Karchin’s Jane Eyre; new productions of Wozzeck, Billy Budd (regional Emmy award) and Peter Grimes, as well as Laura Kaminsky’s As One, Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, and David T. Little’s Soldier Song; Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry; Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men; Kurt Weill’s Street Scene; and Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. Current projects include new productions of Dead Man Walking, Sweeney Todd, and Glory Denied, an adaptation of La voix humaine, and the world premiere of Celka Ojakangas and Amy Punt’s Mirror Game (winner of an OPERA America Female Composer Discovery Grant).