Our People

Our staff and board of directors can't wait to meet you!
Here is a picture of each of us so that you can be sure to pick us out in the crowd and come say "hello" at the next performance.
See you at the opera!

STAFF

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    Julia Cooke

    President and General Director

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    Catrin Davies

    Vice President of Advancement

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  • Marissa Perri

    Operations and Marketing Associate

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  • Danielle Quigley

    Senior Marketing Advisor

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    Mary Elizabeth Williams

    Director of Artistic Access

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  • Rachel Sitomer

    Education Coordinator

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  • Nicole Steinberg, Ph.D.

    Cultural Programs Coordinator

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    Aaron Ziegel, Ph.D.

    Scholar-in-Residence

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  • Ally Noone

    Marketing Intern

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  • Bella Zhao

    Operations Intern

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Teaching Artists

  • Denique Isaac

  • Rachel Sitomer

  • Jennifer Simone Smith

  • Troy Koger

  • Erin Ridge

  • Zachary Frank

  • Laura Corina Sanders

Board of directors

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    John Harris, Chair

    West Baltimore Reimagining and Redevelopment Project, Black Arts District, HARBEL Community Organization

  • Phillip Juengst, Vice Chair

  • Eleanor Clerc, Secretary

    Community Roles: Attorney

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    Bart Debicki

    Community Roles: Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business in the College of Business and Economics at Towson University

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    Elizabeth Futral

    Community Roles: Distinguished Chair of Vocal Studies at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

  • Francis Mondimore

    Community Roles: Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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    David Paige

    Community roles: JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health. Shaped the WIC nutrition program, focuses on clinical nutrition, health outcomes for low birthweight & premature infants, racial disparities in health

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    Erin Rada

    Community Roles: Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center and St. Joseph Medical Center

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    Suzanne Woods

    Community roles: Nationally-recognized soprano who has performed major roles across the country, in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, and on major recording labels

  • H. Brandis Marsh

Brendan Cooke - Founder, Director of artistic partnerships

Advisory Council Members

  • Suzanne Balaes-Blair (Archdiocese of Baltimore)

  • Michael Blair (Cummings & Co. Realtors)

  • Michael Brown (Miles & Stockbridge, P.C)

  • David Dimmock (Northrup Grumman, Retired)

  • Rosemary Eck

  • Dennis Ferguson (Social Security Administration)

  • Tom Geddes (Brown Advisory)

  • Erika Juengst (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

  • Dawn Luedtke (Montgomery County Council)

  • Carolyn J Lynch, CPA (ERP International, LLC)

  • Monica Reinagel (Nutritionist, Host of Nutrition Diva Podcast)

  • Steven White (Metropolitan Opera)

Directors Emeriti

  • J Austin Bitner

  • Suzanne Balaes-Blair

  • Michael Blair

  • Lauren Brown

  • Jennifer Burdick, in memoriam

  • David Dimmock

  • Rosemary Eck

  • Dennis Ferguson

  • Louis Gephardt

  • Jimmy Galdieri, in memoriam

  • Mimi Hatch

  • Megan Ihnen

  • Erika Juengst

  • Heather Kniotek DeSimone

  • Leela Koilpillai, in memoriam

  • Heather Lockard Wheeler

  • Elisabet Pujadas

  • Elizabeth Robinson

  • Kevin Short

  • Ben Schuman

  • John Shields

  • Susan Yager

  • Joseph Zuccaro