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Elkhanah Pulitzer
From: San Francisco Bay area. LA Opera: Judas Maccabaeus at the Cathedral (2008); Lucia di Lammermoor (2014, mainstage debut); Hildegard (2025).
Elkhanah Pulitzer’s bold, nuanced stage direction explores the intersection of music and theater through innovation and hybridized forms, creating compelling and visually stunning productions, from newly composed works to operas and oratorios stretching back to the Baroque era. The director has forged a deep working relationship with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, most recently directing his Antony and Cleopatra, which served as Pulitzer’s Metropolitan Opera debut in spring of 2025. She also has an ongoing
collaboration with cellist Alisa Weilerstein as the director of her Fragments, a groundbreaking, six-part multisensory performance series for solo cello that had its first complete performance at Spoleto USA in 2025.
During the 2025/26 season, Pulitzer looks forward to directing Alban Berg’s Wozzeck at Berkeley’s West Edge Opera and the world premiere, in November 2025, of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard at LA Opera with Beth Morrison Projects. She will also serve as artistic consultant for a project that sees students from Interlochen Center for the Arts partner on tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Detroit Symphony to foreground a youth perspective on America250. Collaborators on the project include composers Reena Esmail and Wynton Marsalis, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua McClendon, and conductor Cristian Măcelaru.
Pulitzer was honored with the Opera America Success Award for her libretto for Dream of the Pacific, an opera composed by Stephen Mager, commissioned by a consortium and performed at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Washington National Opera, and others.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in Theatre Arts and holds an MFA from Columbia in Directing. Pulitzer also serves as board vice president of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, which advances experimentation in art curation, installation and live programming.
Learn more at Elkhanah.com.
Instagram: @elkhanahpulitzer
Elkhanah Pulitzer’s bold, nuanced stage direction explores the intersection of music and theater through innovation and hybridized forms, creating compelling and visually stunning productions, from newly composed works to operas and oratorios stretching back to the Baroque era. The director has forged a deep working relationship with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, most recently directing his Antony and Cleopatra, which served as Pulitzer’s Metropolitan Opera debut in spring of 2025. She also has an ongoing
collaboration with cellist Alisa Weilerstein as the director of her Fragments, a groundbreaking, six-part multisensory performance series for solo cello that had its first complete performance at Spoleto USA in 2025.
During the 2025/26 season, Pulitzer looks forward to directing Alban Berg’s Wozzeck at Berkeley’s West Edge Opera and the world premiere, in November 2025, of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard at LA Opera with Beth Morrison Projects. She will also serve as artistic consultant for a project that sees students from Interlochen Center for the Arts partner on tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Detroit Symphony to foreground a youth perspective on America250. Collaborators on the project include composers Reena Esmail and Wynton Marsalis, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua McClendon, and conductor Cristian Măcelaru.
Pulitzer was honored with the Opera America Success Award for her libretto for Dream of the Pacific, an opera composed by Stephen Mager, commissioned by a consortium and performed at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Washington National Opera, and others.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in Theatre Arts and holds an MFA from Columbia in Directing. Pulitzer also serves as board vice president of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, which advances experimentation in art curation, installation and live programming.
Learn more at Elkhanah.com.
Instagram: @elkhanahpulitzer