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Camilla Tassi
projection designer

Born in Florence, Italy and now New York City based, Camilla Tassi studied computer science and music after moving to the US.  It's at the intersection of technology and live performance that she fell in love with projection design and storytelling (plays, operas, musicals, dance, and everything in between).

Her work as a projection designer includes SEACHANGE (Miami City Ballet), Falling Out of Time (Carnegie Hall), SANDRA (TheaterWorks Hartford), Elijah Reimagined (Kennedy Center), American Railroad (Rhiannon Giddens & Silkroad Ensemble Tour), King Arthur (Lincoln Center, Juilliard415), Adoration (Beth Morrison Projects), Iphigenie en Tauride (Boston Baroque), L'Orfeo (Cal Performances & UMS Michigan), Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage), Malhaar (Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Master Chorale), Conspirare Christmas (Long Center), Mozart's Magic Flute (Berlin Opera Academy, Handel's Alcina (Yale Opera), The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera), Tesor's Fun Home (Yale School of Drama), as well as recitals, chamber music, and theater at Curtis, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, IU opera, Repertorio Español, PROTOTYPE Festival, Mass MoCA, and others, including Associate video, Illinoise on Broadway.

Tassi has produced and directed musical works, including Song from the Uproar (CT), Talk to Me Like the Rain (NH), La Resurrezione (IN), If This is a Man: music, science, and humanity (IN), an interdisciplinary project and tribute to Italian chemist and author Primo Levi - which included the US Premiere of Ennio Morricone's Se questo è un uomo for chamber orchestra, soprano, and reciting voice, and Giacomo Carissimi's music, Pen e tormenti (NH).

As an Italian coach and translator, she has created program translations for Carnegie Hall (L 'Arpeggiata), Apollo's Fire, and coached diction for recitals and performances.

As a classical vocalist, she sang the roles of  Cunégonde in Candide, Celia in  As You Like It, and Drusilla in L'Incoronazione di Poppea.  Chorally, she sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum and NY Philharmonic, and she has instrumental proficiency in piano, organ and harpsichord.

Tassi holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Music (with a Minor in Italian Studies) from the University of Notre Dame and a MA in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College.  She was  a Research Fellow in Projection Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she completed her MFA.