Biography

Director and Producer Zack Winokur is recognized as one of the most innovative and exciting talents working in theater and opera today. Recent highlights include directing Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Santa Fe Opera; and a new production of Messiaen’s Harawi with Julia Bullock, Conor Hanick, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Winokur is Artistic Director of AMOC, a “blindingly impressive” (NY Times) collective of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists; he is also Producing Artistic Director of Little Island, leading the programming and producing of a summer season of 9 world premieres starting June 2024; he served as Artistic Director of NYPopsUp, a sprawling state initiative to reopen the performing arts across NY State with over 300 performances from February to July 2020; and co-teaches, with Davóne Tines, a transdisciplinary storytelling class at Harvard.

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