John Giampietro is a faculty member in the Vocal Arts division at The Juilliard School where he teaches acting for opera. He is also the Director of Opera at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. His theater and opera productions have been seen at Juilliard, the Ensemble Studio Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale School of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, and Shenandoah Conservatory of Music. John is an artist member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He is a frequent director with the Obie-award-winning playwright’s group, Youngblood. His writing includes a new version of Mozart’s The Impresario and a new English dialogue version of Die Zauberflöte.  His plays include Strength of God and other grotesques based on Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio and an adaptation of Kathryn Davis’ novel Versailles.