CLICK HERE TO WATCH A COMPILATION VIDEO OF SOME OF MS. SUMMER'S RECENT PRODUCTIONS.

Eve Summer is a free-lance stage director, producer, and choreographer. Directing engagements last season included Xerxes for Connecticut Early Music Festival and The Academy of Music Theatre, Bastien und Bastienne for Opera del West, Die Fledermaus for Riverside Theatre Works, and 12 Angry Men for Theater Company of Saugus. Ms. Summer also choreographed the world premiere of Mark Warhol's ballet, Jeanne's Fantasy with Contrapose Dance and Maestra Kim Diehnelt leading Ensemble Warhol for Fort Point Theater Channel.

Watch "Un cenno leggiadretto" from Xerxes:


Watch "Ingannata Romilda" from Xerxes:


In the 2009-10 season Ms. Summer directed Così fan tutte and Lucia di Lammermoor at Commonwealth Opera where she served for the season as Artistic Director and Resident Stage Director, as well as Le nozze di Figaro for Kaliope Opera, The Merry Wives of Windsor at MIT, and L'elisir d'amore and The Telephone for Opera del West.

Watch the Act I finale from Così fan tutte:


In the 2008-09 season Ms. Summer worked primarily at Opera Boston where she assistant directed The Nose and The Bartered Bride, and directed Little Red Riding Hood, their current touring outreach opera. She also staged the world premiere of Holy Ghosts, an opera by Larry Bell based on the play by Romulus Linney at the Berklee Performance Center and directed Suor Angelica for Boston Opera Collaborative, in addition to directing a number of plays and staged scenes in the Boston area.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE COMPLETE PRODUCTION VIDEO OF HOLY GHOSTS.

Ms. Summer was trained as a classical ballet dancer with the Kirov (Universal) Ballet and Boston Ballet where, as a young dancer, she performed extensively with the company. Ms. Summer went on to dance professionally, performing Corps de Ballet and Soloist roles with the Inland Pacific Ballet Company in Los Angeles. Since she stopped dancing, Ms. Summer has continued to choreograph for theater, opera, and ballet.

Ms. Summer graduated summa cum laude from Assumption College with a degree in foreign languages (French, German, and Italian) and has written surtitle translations of Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica for Boston Opera Collaborative, Così fan tutte and Lucia di Lammermoor for Commonwealth Opera, L'elisir d'amore for Opera del West, and Xerxes for Connecticut Early Music Festival. Ms. Summer has long been a devotee of writer Thomas Berger and with his support wrote a play based on his novel Neighbors which she directed in the spring of 2007 at Assumption College. Berger loved her adaptation, and corresponded with Ms. Summer during the process.

Click HERE to watch a short video montage of the design, load-in, and performance of Cosi fan tutte.


Watch "Troppo oltraggi la mia fede" from Handel's Xerxes

Production photos by Andrew Keefe
Headshots by Jeff Haynes