ABOUT BETH MORRISON PROJECTS

“Modern American Opera Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Her / Beth Morrison has shepherded dozens of new works into existence over the past 20 years. And her footprint continues to grow.” 
–The New York Times

“[Beth Morrison is] …an indefatigable champion of new, unconventional operas.”
–The Wall Street Journal

Following its landmark 20th anniversary season, Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) remains a leading creator and producer of new opera and music-theatre, driven by a fierce commitment to telling the stories of our time, cultivating the next generation of artists, and shaping a more inclusive, innovative, and relevant future for the field. Founded in 2006 by “contemporary opera mastermind” (LA Times) Beth Morrison—named one of Musical America’s Artists of the Year/Agents of Change—BMP has become “a driving force behind America’s thriving opera scene” (Financial Times).

With offices in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, BMP operates nationally and internationally, having commissioned, developed, produced, and toured more than 65 works in 19 countries. Its productions include the Pulitzer Prize–winning operas Angel’s Bone (Du Yun/Royce Vavrek) and p r i s m (Ellen Reid/Roxie Perkins), as well as three GRAMMY™-nominated operas for Best Opera Recording: Black Lodge (David T. Little/Anne Waldman, 2024); Adoration (Mary Kouyoumdjian/Royce Vavrek, 2026); and TRADE/Mary Motorhead (Emma O’Halloran/Mark O’Halloran, 2026). BMP’s productions have been presented at leading venues and festivals worldwide.

In June 2026, HILDEGARD, composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider, received the Music Critics Association of North America’s 2026 Award for Best New Opera—another milestone in BMP’s ongoing commitment to ambitious and groundbreaking new work.

Marking two decades of artistic achievement, BMP released the double album BMP: SONGBOOK through Bright Shiny Things in January 2026. Available on CD, vinyl, and digital platforms, the album brings together selections from across BMP’s catalogue of more than 65 commissioned and produced opera and music-theatre works. In addition to the CD, BMP published a companion anthology of sheet music and a commemorative 20th Anniversary volume that provides a visual history of BMP’s creative output through the decades. 

Central to BMP’s mission is artist development through programs such as BMP: Producer Academy and BMP: NEXTGEN, which support emerging producers, composers, singers, and artists through mentorship, training, commissioning, and professional-development opportunities. BMP is also the driving force behind the annual PROTOTYPE Festival, widely recognized as one of the world’s leading festivals of contemporary opera and theatre. Co-founded in 2013 by BMP and HERE Arts Center, PROTOTYPE is, as of 2026, solely curated and produced by BMP. 

Through its productions, partnerships, recordings, and artist-development programs, BMP continues to redefine opera for the 21st century and build a vibrant, sustainable, and deeply relevant future for the art form.

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About A.R.T./New York

Established in 1972 by an innovative collective, A.R.T./New York has matured into an indispensable cornerstone for more than 475 theatres and more than 150 individual producers and artists throughout all five boroughs of New York City and across the state.

As the singular membership organization dedicated to encompassing New York’s entire not-for-profit theatre sector, A.R.T./New York’s reach extends from playwriting collectives and developmental labs to producing organizations and pioneering independent artists.

A.R.T./New York continues to serve the field through four essential service areas: funding, space, professional development, and advocacy, helping theatre-makers put their creative ideas onstage.

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About A.R.T./New York

Established in 1972 by an innovative collective, A.R.T./New York has matured into an indispensable cornerstone for more than 475 theatres and more than 150 individual producers and artists throughout all five boroughs of New York City and across the state.

As the singular membership organization dedicated to encompassing New York’s entire not-for-profit theatre sector, A.R.T./New York’s reach extends from playwriting collectives and developmental labs to producing organizations and pioneering independent artists.

A.R.T./New York continues to serve the field through four essential service areas: funding, space, professional development, and advocacy, helping theatre-makers put their creative ideas onstage.

About Art Bath

ART BATH takes audiences on immersive journeys through many disciplines and textures of art. With an established history of fostering new collaborations and work by world-class creatives, Art Bath draws from the tradition of the art salon to stage eclectic lineups of dance, opera, music, puppetry, theater, and fine arts in reimagined spaces. Founded in 2022 by Elizabeth Yilmaz and Mara Driscoll, Art Bath has collaborated with such organizations as Lincoln Center, 92NY, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the PROTOTYPE Festival, Phillips Auction House, and Fotografiska.

About BRIC

Founded in 1979, BRIC is a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn, with programming that spans media, contemporary visual and performing arts, and civic engagement.

For more than four decades, BRIC has helped shape Brooklyn’s cultural landscape by presenting and supporting artists, creators, students, and media makers.

On September 30, 2025, in recognition of its significant contributions to New York City’s cultural sector, BRIC was named to New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group, becoming the first media and arts organization to join the coalition in its more than 150-year history.

Learn more at bricartsmedia.org.

About Carolina Performing Arts

Founded in 2005, Carolina Performing Arts is one of the nation’s leading multi-arts presenters and producers, housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We collaborate with artists from Carolina’s campus and across the world to spark discovery, foster belonging, and create shared performing arts experiences on stage, in classrooms, and across communities. We invest in the research and development of new creative work, including commissioning 80 productions in our first 20 years. We work to expand access, including offering $11 tickets to every student statewide. Together, we’re building communities where shared arts experiences — and the connections they create — thrive, cultivating a North Carolina that is healthier, more joyful, and better connected. 

About Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York, an international leader in educating for justice, offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. 

Since opening its doors in 1988, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater has been an invaluable cultural resource.  The Theater is a member of CUNY Stages, a consortium of 16 performing arts centers located on CUNY campuses across New York City and the CUNY Dance Initiative. The Theater has been home to the Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival & White Light Festival, as well as the New Yorker Festival, Mannes Opera, the World Science Festival, and the revival of Mummunschanz. The Theater has hosted live and recorded events including David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Inside the Actor’s Studio, Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, Comedy Central Presents one-hour specials, the American Justice Summit, the NYC Mayoral Democratic Debates, and the launch of Jay-Z’s REFORM initiative. The Theater welcomes premiere galas, conferences, international competitions, and graduations.  For more information, and a schedule of events, please visit www.GeraldWLynchTheater.com.

About Joe’s Pub

Joe’s Pub, a program of The Public Theater, was named for The Public’s founder Joseph Papp. Since it opened in 1998, Joe’s Pub has played a vital role in The Public's mission of supporting artists at all stages of their careers with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. Joe's Pub presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community, and artistic freedom. In addition to one-night-only concerts and multi-night engagements, Joe’s Pub is home to the annual Habibi Festival, which hosts artists representing contemporary and traditional musics of the SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa) region, and The Vanguard Residency, a yearlong curation series that celebrates the career, and community, of a prolific and influential artist, including Nona Hendryx, Judy Collins, Laurie Anderson, Barbara Maier Gustern, Angelique Kidjo, Margaret Cho, and Dr. Justin Vivian Bond. Murray Hill is the incoming Vanguard for 2026-27.

With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe’s Pub presents over 600 shows featuring artists based in New York City and touring performers from all over the world, and hosts over 100,000 audience members annually. Beyond public performances, Joe’s Pub also leads artist development programs like New York Voices, a commissioning program that helps musicians develop new performance projects, and Joe’s Pub Working Group, an artist-led development and collaboration cohort. Current commissioned artists include Lisa Stephen Friday, Dan Fishback, Lampert & Barsha, Morgan Bassichis, and EMEL.

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About LA Opera

Los Angeles is a city of enormous diversity and creativity, and LA Opera is dedicated to reflecting that vibrancy by redefining what opera can be. Through imaginative new productions, world premiere commissions, and inventive performances that preserve foundational works while making them feel fresh and compelling, LA Opera has become one of America’s most exciting and ambitious opera companies.

In addition to its mainstage performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the company explores unusual repertoire each season through the LA Opera Off Grand initiative, featuring performances in a variety of venues throughout Los Angeles. The LA Opera Connects initiative offers a robust variety of educational programming and community engagement offerings that reaches people throughout every corner of Los Angeles County. Learn more at LAOpera.org.

About National Sawdust

National Sawdust is a dynamic non-profit cultural institution that the New York Times has described as “the city’s most vital new-music hall." National Sawdust commissions, produces, presents programming rooted in sound, and supports multidisciplinary artists and arts organizations in creating innovative new work. Founded in 2015, National Sawdust operates out of an intimate space equipped with a state-of-the-art Meyer spatial sound system in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is one of the few remaining cultural neighborhood venues. Composer Paola Prestini, who co-founded National Sawdust, serves as its President alongside EVP, Ana De Archuleta and SVP, Siobahn Sung, placing National Sawdust among the small number of New York cultural institutions led by women. 

About PAC NYC

Opened in September 2023, Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC, Khady Kamara Nunez, Executive Director, Bill Rauch, Artistic Director) is the final piece of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center after 9/11. Chaired by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, PAC NYC represents the resilience of the city standing as a beacon of hope and affirmation of life through music, theater, dance, opera, media, and more. Flexible in design, the center is fully responsive to artists’ creative visions. Intimate in scale, PAC NYC fosters an immediate connection between artists and audience members. The center’s projects involve significant community participation and always strive to have audiences reflect the work onstage. PAC NYC’s mission is to create connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities, with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts, and in our flexible, intimate spaces, inviting conversation and new relationships. Our art and our audiences reflect the dynamic energy of all five boroughs of New York City. Our work asks all of us to consider and embrace the complexities of society. Together, we welcome the entire world. The center is where the world trades ideas.

About Trinity Church Wall Street

Trinity Church NYC is an Episcopal parish in Lower Manhattan known for a vibrant spiritual life and a globally recognized music program. Through the Trinity Choir, Trinity Youth Chorus, and NOVUS (Trinity’s new-music ensemble), Trinity commissions, performs, and records repertoire spanning centuries, with a special commitment to new work that speaks to today. Trinity’s concerts, community partnerships, and free or low-cost offerings make world-class music accessible to all while fostering creativity, compassion, and civic engagement.

About The Wallis

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, located in the heart of Beverly Hills, CA, is a dynamic cultural hub and community resource where local, national, and international artists share their artistry with ever-expanding audiences. Distinguished by its eclectic programming that mirrors the diverse landscape of Los Angeles and its location in the entertainment capital of the world, The Wallis has produced and presented more than 400 theater, dance, music, film, cabaret, comedy, performance arts, and family entertainment programs, boasting nominations for 79 Ovation Awards and nine L.A. Drama Critic's Circle Awards as well as six architectural awards. Since its doors opened in October 2013, The Wallis has been committed to robust and distinctive presentations and education programs curated with both creativity and social impact in mind. Hailed as “au courant” (LaLa Magazine), The Wallis was lauded by Culture Vulture, which proclaimed, “If you love expecting the unexpected in the performing arts, you have to love The Wallis.” Broadway legend Patti LuPone, who was The Wallis’ 2015/2016 Season Artistic Advisor, described the venue as “one of the best in the country, allowing for an unparalleled intimacy between [the artist] and the audience.” A recent patron survey produced audience comments about The Wallis ranging from "amazing, engaging, inspiring!" to "fun. entertaining. Educational." The breathtaking 70,000-square-foot facility, celebrating the classic and the modern, was named after philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, whose original $25-million dollar donation was instrumental in transforming the former Beverly Hills post office building into an arts complex. Designed by acclaimed architect Zoltan E. Pali (SPF:architects), the restored building features the original 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office (on the National Register of Historic Places), whose eight towering fresco murals are one of two sets of WPA frescos remaining in the entire California Federal Building system. The Wallis’ lobby, now known as Jim and Eleanor Randall Grand Hall, serves as the theater's dramatic yet welcoming entryway to the contemporary 500-seat, state-of-the-art Bram Goldsmith Theater; the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater; an inviting open-air plaza for family, community and other performances; and GRoW @ The Wallis: A Space for Arts Education, where learning opportunities for all ages and backgrounds abound. Together, these elements embrace the city's history and its future, creating a performing arts destination for L.A.-area visitors and residents alike. Daphna Nazarian is Chair of The Wallis’ Board of Directors and Jean Davidson is Executive Director and CEO.