Tess Naval was the inaugural Ryan Opera Center Ensemble Stage Manager at Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2022-2024. She is a proud AGMA stage manager.

     

     Tess graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Stage Management. Her work while in the Ryan Opera Center include assistant stage managing the World Premiere of The Factotum, and assisting with Rising Stars in Concert (2023, 2024), Aida, Champion, Jenůfa, The Flying Dutchman, Carmen, Don Carlos, Fiddler on the Roof, Sunday in the Park with Lyric, and Ryan Opera Center Scenes Workshop 2022. During the Summer of 2023 she worked as an Assistant Stage Manager at The Glimmerglass Festival on La Bohème, and Romeo and Juliet. She also Stage Managed the World Premiere Youth Opera The Rip van Winkles. Some other recent projects include work with Albany Park Theater Project, Gather with Filament Theatre, Yale Opera's Fall Opera Scenes, L'elisir d'amore, Spring Double Bill and Eugene Onegin, The Pirates of Penzance and Peter Pan: Broadway's Timeless Musical with Music Theater Works, and Cendrillon with North Park University. In the spring of 2015, she studied abroad in London, interning at the Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead. 

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    Tess also has a passion for reading, knitting, crocheting, watercolor, tap dancing, and environmental science.