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Biography
Christopher Drobny's original works include K (from the writings of Kafka), developmental reading at Sundance Theatre Lab, workshop production at NYU's Provincetown Playhouse, both directed by Diane Paulus; Kissing and Horrid Strife (from the poetry of D.H. Lawrence), co-production of Opera Company of Philadelphia and Curtis Institute of Music; Lucy's Lapses (libretto: Laura Harrington), developmental reading at O'Neill Music-Theatre Conference, workshop production at Playwrights Horizons, world premiere at Portland Opera; and Fire in the Future (libretto: Joan Schenkar), developmental reading at New Dramatists, commissioned and premiered by Minnesota Opera New Music-Theatre Ensemble. He is currently collaborating with librettist Helen Richardson on Transcendent, about the life of Margaret Fuller, pioneering nineteenth-century American feminist-journalist, recently presented in a concert reading at Brooklyn College.
Christopher has served as a musical arranger for CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. His musical direction credits include collaborations with directors including Christopher Ashley (New York Theatre Workshop), Anne Bogart (Columbia University), David Esbjornson (Classic Stage Company), Bill Irwin (Roundabout Theatre Company), Michael Mayer (Juilliard School of Drama) and Vanessa Redgrave (Joseph Papp Public Theatre.). Regional credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, and the Huntington Theatre of Boston.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | Opera for the Eighties and Beyond | 1989 |
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