John Giampietro is a Brooklyn based stage director of Opera and Theatre. Recent credits include L'infedeltà delusa and Die lustigen Wieber von Windsor at The Juilliard School, Hänsel und Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, at Chautauqua Opera Conservatory where he is the principal Stage Director.

He is a frequent director with Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theater’s Obie-award-winning young writers group. There, he directed the NY Times acclaimed production of Year of the Rooster by Olivia Dufault. Other opera and theatre productions seen at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Urban Stages, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, Curtis Institute of Music, The Flea Theatre, Shenandoah Conservatory and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, among others. 

John is a faculty member of the Vocal Arts department at The Juilliard School where he is a stage director and acting teacher.

At Juilliard, he has directed The Turn of the Screw, Il Turco in Italia, La fedeltà premiata, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Curlew River, Riders to the Sea, La fedelta premiatà and Le Nozze di Figaro.

John’s writings include new English dialogue versions of Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor by Otto Nicolai,  Mozart's The Impesario and Die Zauberflöte. He has written three plays; The Immolation of Kathy Chang(e), M. of Versailles, and Strength of God and other grotesques, based on Sherwood Anderson’s novel, Winesburg, Ohio.