RICKY IAN GORDON (Composer/Writer). Operas include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (New York City Opera/Yiddish Folksbiene, librettist, Michael Korie) Intimate Apparel (Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater, lib., Lynn Nottage), Ellen West (Beth Morrison Projects, Opera Saratoga with the poet Frank Bidart), The House Without a Christmas Tree (Houston Grand Opera), 27 (Opera Theatre of St Louis) lib., Royce Vavrek; Morning Star (Cincinnati Opera, lib., William Hoffman); A Coffin In Egypt (Houston Grand Opera, lib., Leonard Foglia); Rappahannock County (Virginia Opera, lib., Mark Campbell); Green Sneakers (Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and Lincoln Center); The Grapes of Wrath (Minnesota Opera, lib., Michael Korie); The Tibetan Book of The Dead (Houston Grand Opera, lib., Jean Claude Van Itallie); and Orpheus and Euridice (Lincoln Center, Obie Award). Musicals include Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre, Helen Hayes Award), My Life with Albertine (Playwrights Horizons, playwright Richard Nelson; AT&T Award, Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Music Theater Foundation Award) and Dream True (Vineyard Theatre, playwright Tina Landau; Richard Rodgers Award). Upcoming includes the opera This House (librettists Lynn Nottage and Ruby Gerber) and a forthcoming memoir published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. www.rickyiangordon.com