Larissa McConnell is very happy to return home to Western New York and to Chautauqua Opera as well as her alma mater of SUNY Fredonia. She spent 14 years teaching, designing, and shop managing as the Costume Department at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, but this last fall she accepted the position of Costume Shop Supervisor in the Theatre and Dance Department at SUNY Fredonia. She has also worked at Weston Theatre Company, Alpine Theatre Project, and the Bay View Music Festival.