Jerre Dye is a Chicago-based director, librettist, playwright and performer. He has spent over three decades focusing primarily on developing new works for theatre and opera. He is especially passionate about collaborative expression, site-specific work, and community-based projects. Dye received the Award for Dramatic Literature from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. 

Some opera commissions include: the upcoming Woman With Eyes Closed for Pittsburgh Opera and Opera Philadelphia in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize and two-time, Grammy Award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon; Taking Up Serpents for Washington National Opera with composer Kamala Sankaram; The Transformation of Jane Doe for Chicago Opera Theatre with composer Stacy Garrop; The Falling and the Rising for the U.S. Army Field Band and Chorus, Seattle Opera, Opera Memphis, Arizona Opera, San Diego Opera, Texas Christian University and Seagle Music Colony with composer Zachary Redler; and Pretty Little Room for Opera Memphis with composer Robert Patterson. 

Short form operas include: Opera 901 for Opera Memphis with composers Kamala Sankaram, Sam Shoup, Zach Redler and Robert Patterson; Portraits for the U.S. Army Field Band and Chorus and Seattle Opera with composers Damien Geter and Tim Takach; Parksville, a filmed, virtual reality opera for Opera on Tap/New York with composer Kamala Sankaram; and Ghosts of Crosstown for Opera Memphis with composers Zachary Redler, Kamran Ince, Nathaniel Stookey and Jack Perla. He is currently in process for two site-specific operas: The Cabinets with composer Kamala Sankaram for Opera on Tap and The Singing Rooms with composer Larry Axelrod. His plays include Cicada, Distance, Short/Stories, Threads, The New Adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Wild Swans, and Live Studio Audience. He is also developing a new musical, Self Storage, with Zachary Redler.