Finalists selected by Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia with “Quaking Aspen” by Jason Eckard and featuring soprano Stephanie Lamprea, Interim by Sarah Grace Graves, she wears bells by Jo Reyes-Boitel and featuring Teatro Palo Alto.

Two Guerilla Opera productions with stage direction by Deniz Khateri, video projection design by Nuozhou Wang and featuring the music of Kaija Saariaho and Bahar Royaee.

THE COLONY is an opera-theater performance about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: ants and humans by Anna Lindemann and Emma Komlos-Hrobsky.

THE CELLOS’ DIALOGUE is an UN-آن Theatre Ensemble production, a multidisciplinary play that tells the story of a woman from the Middle East finds herself struggling with an unexpected pregnancy in America.

An extended broadcast of the world premiere animated film featuring the mastered recording of Rumpelstiltskin, with music and libretto by Marti Epstein, with shadow puppetry animation and direction by Deniz Khateri in The Guerilla Underground.