During HGO’s 2024-25 season, Eric Sean Fogel serves as associate director for West Side Story and choreographer for Tannhäuser. Previously for HGO, he served as associate director/choreographer for The Sound of Music (2024); associate director for this production of West Side Story (2018); and as choreographer for The Pearl Fishers (2019) and Florencia en el Amazonas (2019). Fogel has been the Head of Stage Movement and Choreography at the Glimmerglass Festival for more than a decade. He is also a guest stage director on staff at the Metropolitan Opera, where he served as revival director for The Magic Flute and Norma. He recently directed two new productions of The Barber of Seville at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Songbird for Washington National Opera, and choreographed new productions of Pagliacci and Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto at the Glimmerglass Festival. His Kennedy Center credits include Songbird; Samson and Delilah; Don Giovanni; Candide; West Side Story; The Little Prince; Florencia en el Amazonas; The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me; and La forza del destino. Fogel has also created new productions for Opera Australia, Opera Bordeaux, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theatre, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Linzer Klangwolke, Lyric Opera Kansas City, Los Angeles Opera, Metropolitan Art Museum, Milan Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, Opera Philadelphia, Paris Fashion Week, Royal Opera of Versailles, Seattle Opera, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Théâtre du Capitole, Theater St. Gallen, and Washington National Opera.