Edward Berkeley is Director of Undergraduate Opera Studies at The Juilliard School and teaches Shakespeare at Circle in the Square Theater School. He is artistic director of New York’s Willow Cabin Theater Company where he directed the Tony Award and Drama Desk–nominated Wilder, Wilder, Wilder and productions for which he received numerous awards. Mr. Berkeley’s New York Shakespeare Festival productions include Pericles and best revival winner The Tempest. He directed Beatrice and Benedict at the New York Philharmonic and John Adams’s El Niño with the Atlanta Symphony and at Ravinia. Mr. Berkeley has also directed at the Library of Congress, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Old Globe Theater. As director of the Aspen Opera Theater Center, he has directed classics as well as new operas by Bright Sheng, Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Torke, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Bernard Rands. In New York Mr. Berkeley directed the premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town, Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face and The Kaiser from Atlantis (which he also directed in L.A., Miami, Houston, Spoleto, and at Ravinia). Mr. Berkeley was an acting consultant for the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program, on guest faculty at Princeton University and Williams College, and a Dayton-Hudson and Benedict Distinguished Professor at Carleton College. He directed his own adaptation of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New York Philharmonic, Two Faces of Romeo and Juliet, a combining of Bernstein and Gounod and Madama Butterfly for Houston Grand Opera, and most recently John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer and Cavalli’s La Doriclea at Juilliard.