Doug Fitch
| Doug Fitch | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 2, 1959 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Occupation | Opera director, designer, artist |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Website | http://www.douglasfitch.com |
Doug Fitch (born August 2, 1959) is a polymath American visual artist and director. He is most well known for his opera productions, but his body of work runs through several mediums, from drawing and sculpture to theater, architecture and food.
Fitch is the co-founder of the theatre and entertainment company Giants Are Small together with Swiss producer and filmmaker Edouard Getaz and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy. He is also the co-founder of the collaborative art partnership known as Orphicorps with Mimi Oka, known for using edible media in experimental feasts.
During his career as a director, Fitch has created productions for the Los Angeles Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Opera, the and several other major institutions.
Fitch has collaborated with James Levine, Alan Gilbert, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, Karole Armitage, Joshua Bell and other celebrated artists. He has also worked with puppeteer Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street) and architect/designer, Gaetano Pesce.
Doug Fitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and Coventry, Connecticut. As a youth, he studied violin, dance and puppetry. Early on, he got involved with community theater and eventually, with his brother, turned the family basement into a theater to perform original works based on Shakespeare tragedies and musical comedies. Later, after attending an introduction to puppetry arts course at the University of Connecticut at age nine, he worked with his family to create a touring puppet theatre.
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