During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Kristine McIntyre serves as director for Of Mice and Men. McIntyre directed HGO’s Butler Studio Showcase in 2020, 2021, and 2023. Elsewhere during the season, McIntyre will direct La bohème with Pittsburgh Opera as well as Of Mice and Men with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Des Moines Metro Opera. Projects during the 2024-25 season, included a revival of her film-noir-inspired Don Giovanni, the world premiere of Woman With Eyes Closed by Jennifer Higdon and Jerre Dye, and La bohème at Opera Colorado. McIntyre has directed more than 100 operas, with a focus on new, contemporary, and American works. Her credits include directing the world premieres of Laura Kaminsky and Kimberly Reed’s Hometown to the World at the Santa Fe Opera; Kristin Kuster and Mark Campbell’s A Thousand Acres for Des Moines Metro Opera; and Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt. She recently directed her first opera film, Unknown, for UrbanArias, based on the song cycle by Shawn Okpebholo and Marcus Amaker. She also directed the premieres of Louis Karchin’s Jane Eyre for the Center for Contemporary Opera; Kirke Mechem’s John Brown for Lyric Opera of Kansas City; The Place Where You Started by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt at Art Share LA; and Mirror Game by Celka Ojakangas and Amy Punt. Her recent technologically-innovative, immersive production of Bluebeard's Castle, a collaboration with world-famous visual composer Oyoram, was met with critical and audience acclaim. McIntyre and Oyoram’s new production of The Cunning Little Vixen premiered at Des Moines Metro Opera in the summer of 2025, the first in a multi-year series of planned collaborative works.