Sharon Ott
Stage Director

This production of Barber's Vanessa marks Ott's debut with Seattle Opera. Ott has been artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre since July 1997 after having served for thirteen years in the same capacity at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She directed more than twenty plays for the Berkeley Rep including Shaw's Heartbreak House, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Winter's Tale, Brecht's Good Person of Szechuan, the American premiere of Adrian Mitchell's translation of Lópe de Vega's Fuente ovejuna, the world premiere of Gerry Bamman and Irene Berman's translation of Ibsen's Lady from the Sea, and the world premieres of Heather McDonald's Dream of a Common Language and Deborah Rogin's adaptation of Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior. She has also directed at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Playwright's Horizons, the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She has directed in the Seattle area at the Intiman Theatre and A Contemporary Theatre. She directed the world premiere of Myron Fink's opera The Conquistador for San Diego Opera in 1997, and most recently, Ibsen's Doll's House and Shaw's Pygmalion for the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Roles in the Seattle Opera
Salome, March/April 2002
Vanessa, February/March 1999

Biography as of February 1999