Eric Sean Fogel is the original choreographer for HGO’s 2025-26 production of Porgy and Bess. Previously at HGO, Fogel served as choreographer for Tannhäuser (2025); associate director for West Side Story (2025, 2018); associate director/choreographer for The Sound of Music (2024);  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 (2024) and Norma (2023). Recently he directed new productions of The Rakes Progress at The Glimmerglass Festival (2025), The Barber of Seville at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (2024), and Songbird for Washington National Opera (2024). Other Washington National Opera-Kennedy Center credits include Porgy and Bess, 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.