Co-Director & Production Designer

Following the release of 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Angel’s Bone by Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek , National Sawdust has partnered with all-female artist collective SPA THEORY to create one of this year’s first, if not only operatic music films.

Part art piece, part music video- this short features excerpts from the opera performed by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and composer Du Yun. Angel’s Bone – a bold allegory about human trafficking– received its world premiere at the PROTOTYPE Festival in January 2016 and was met with widespread critical acclaim. Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim of The New York Times hailed the composer’s singularity: “Ms. Du’s music obeys only her own omnivorous tastes and assured dramatic instincts,” while Anne Midgette of The Washington Pos t proclaimed the opera as “a work that gave me nightmares, yet one that I would nonetheless see again.”