Biography

During the 2025-26 season, Luke Cantarella makes his HGO debut as the scenic and projections director for Of Mice and Men. Cantarella is a designer of scenery and spaces for performance and Chair of Film and Screen Studies at Pace University. He has designed scenery and video for over 150 productions around the country and internationally. Recent opera credits include the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon & Jerry Dye's Women with Eyes Closed at Pittsburgh Opera, the world premiere of Kristin Kuster and Mark Campbell's A Thousand Acres for Des Moines Metro Opera, and the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky & Kimberly Reed's Hometown to the World for Santa Fe Opera. Additional credits include projects at the American Repertory Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, the MUNY, Westport Country Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cleveland Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, TheaterWorks (Hartford), Berkshire Theater Festival, Asolo Repertory Theater, People’s Light, Wolf Trap Opera, Baltimore Opera/Peabody Institute, and many others.