Direction
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Susan’s direction of a double bill featuring Menotti’s The Telephone and Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor challenged her to explore comic performance with students and create a unifying theme between the two works.
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Pop art and the classic story of Cinderella are delightful partners in the University of Arizona’s Fall 2025 production of Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon. Susan traded the opera’s traditional setting for 1950s Paris and explored with her students the history of Pop Art and how to build a story around finding new identity.
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Susan reflects on directing Ragtime at Arts Express, a musically demanding production that explores race, class, and the American dream.
Susan Lane Stokes 