Dana Kinney (Stage Director)

Dana Kinney is a first-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist in 2024-25. This season, she will Assistant Direct Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Armida, Madama Butterfly, and Woman with Eyes Closed. 

Dana is a multi-faceted artist working as an opera director, actor, and singer in New York City. She is recognized as “a consummate storyteller with a warm and clear tone.”

Ms. Kinney’s directing career, coinciding with performance, began as an apprentice artist with Opera Fort Collins where she assisted her mentor, Brian Clay Luedloff, in over ten productions. Since then, she’s returned to the company to direct Amahl and the Night Visitors, Daughter of the Regiment and Thunder of Horses.