During HGO’s 2026-27 season, Eric Sean Fogel serves as the associate director and co-choreographer for Show Boat. Previously at HGO, Fogel served as choreographer for Porgy and Bess and Tannhäuser (2025); associate director for West Side Story (2025, 2018); associate director/choreographer for The Sound of Music (2024); and choreographer for The Pearl Fishers and Florencia en el Amazonas (2019). Elsewhere during the 2026-27 season, he serves as the choreographer for Candide with LA Opera. Fogel has been the Artistic Associate 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). He directed new productions of The Rake’s 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 WNO 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 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.