ANDREW EGGERT is a freelance stage director with extensive experience in opera. In 2008-09, he directed Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at Princeton University, and Capriccio Barocco, a program of scenes from Cavalli’s operas, with the Yale Baroque Opera Project.

At Chicago Opera Theater, he served as the assistant director on productions of Così fan tutte, The Rape of Lucretia, Semele, The Turn of the Screw, Agrippina, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Death in Venice, La resurrezione, Le nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nixon in China, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, and Don Giovanni, and directed outreach productions of The Impresario and an original adaptation of Iolanta.

At Glimmerglass Opera, he worked as a staff stage director of the Young American Artists Program and was the assistant director on productions of Orlando Paladino, Don Giovanni, Patience, and Death in Venice. He regularly directs at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of the Performing Arts, and recently staged projects for Santa Fe Opera, Intermezzo Opera, and Gotham Chamber Opera.

Mr. Eggert is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied English with an emphasis on dramatic literature, and is pursuing graduate work in the Music Department of Columbia University in New York.