Victoria Crutchfield

Victoria Crutchfield is a stage director of opera, theater, and everything in between. She returns to dell’Arte Opera Ensemble as stage director for Manon after leading productions of L’incoronazione di Poppea and Dialogues des Carmélites in previous seasons. Recent projects have included: Matthew Aucoin’s Second Nature at Music Academy of the West; Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with Bel Canto at Caramoor; “Song Cycle”, a multimedia immersive experience at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston; Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” at Boston’s Symphony Hall; and eight scenes from Victor Hugo’s “Le roi s’amuse” and “Lucrèce Borgia” in her own translations.

Ms. Crutchfield earned an AB magna cum laude in Literature at Harvard University and received the James S. Marcus Directing Fellowship to work with acclaimed director Stephen Wadsworth at the Juilliard School. She has also studied acting with Tommy Derrah at the American Repertory Theater, Viewpoints and Suzuki with Stephen Webber at SITI Company, and the Practical Aesthetics technique with Scott Zigler, Mike Piazza, and Jordan Lage of the Atlantic Acting School.