Emily Bishai is currently in her first year as the Resident Artist Stage Director at Minnesota Opera. Previously based in the UK, her directing work this past season included a new, contemporary script adaptation and fully-staged production of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale for RWCMD REPCo/USW Dance and a contemporary double bill of Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots and Victoria Bond’s Mrs. President for NYC’s Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Additionally, she joined Welsh National Opera as an assistant staff director for their 2020 spring season’s revival production and tour of Tobias Richter’s The Marriage of Figaro, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for the 2019 revival of Kasper Holten’s Don Giovanni, and Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble for Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero. Emily holds an MA in Opera Directing from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama's David Seligman School and received her BA in Social Anthropology and Music from Harvard University.