Jeffrey Lentz, M.M.
Senior Artist in Residence (Theatre/Music), Chair of Computer Science
jlentz@albright.edu
CFA, Studio 3 (Music)
610-921-7806
M.M., Yale University School of Music
B.A., Albright College
Biography
Jeffrey Lentz has graced many of the world’s finest opera houses and concert stages including Lincoln Center, Barbican Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Theatre de La Monnaie, and the San Francisco Opera. He has also appeared to critical acclaim at the Glyndebourne, Glimmerglass, and Garsington Festivals. Specializing in new works of music theatre, Jeffrey first garnered international attention at the Opera de Monte Carlo in the title role of Lowell Liebermann’s opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray. He soon made his West End Theatre debut at London’s Almeida Theatre in the world premiere of John Casken’s opera, God’s Liar. His work has been seen numerous times on PBS — in both their GREAT PERFORMANCES series (for the world premieres of both Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire and the Dratell/Wasserstein, Torke/Gurney, and Beaser/McNally triptych Central Park) and the LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER series (for the national live broadcast of the New York City Opera’s acclaimed production of Britten’s Paul Bunyan). As a stage director, Jeffrey has been at the helm for dozens for Albright College’s Domino Players Theatre Company — for which he has received national recognition for his work on both Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (2007) and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (2016) by the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival.
Jeffrey is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including: a 2004 Grammy nomination (Thomas’ Desire Under the Elms), The Lucy G. Moses Fellowship (Yale University); the Kolosvar Prize (NYCOpera), the Pagoda Award for Artistic Achievement (Berks Arts Council); and both the Annadora Vesper Shirk Award for Creative Scholarship and the Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching at Albright College where he serves as the Senior Artist in Residence for the Departments of Theatre and Music.
Areas of Expertise
Acting, Directing, Vocal Technique, Viewpoints,.
Active member: AEA/ AGMA/SDC
Areas of Research
OPERA PERFORMANCES (selected)
| THE RAKE’S PROGRESS (Tom Rakewell) | BUENOS AIRES LIRICA |
| THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Prologue/Quint) | NEW YORK CITY OPERA |
| ORPHEE (Heurtibise) | GLIMMERGLASS OPERA |
| THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Prologue/Quint) | KENNEDY CENTER |
| THE MOTHER OF US ALL (Jo the Loiterer) | SAN FRANCISCO OPERA |
| THE GLASSBLOWERS (Jack Bartlett) | GLIMMERGLASS OPERA |
| ARABELLA (Matteo) | GLYNDEBOURNE OEPRA FESTIVAL |
| THE MAGIC FLUTE (Tamino) | NEW YORK CITY OPERA |
| THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY* (Dorian) | OPERA De MONTE CARLO |
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE* (Young Collector) | SAN FRANCISCO OPERA |
| GOD’S LIAR* (Stephen) | THEATRE DE LA MONNAIE/ALMEIDA OPERA |
| LA FINTA GIARDINIERA (Belfiore) | OPERA ZUID (Netherlands) |
| DON GIOVANNI (Don Ottavio) | NEW YORK CITY OPERA |
| COSI FAN TUTTE (Ferrando) | GARSINGTON OPERA FESTIVAL |
TELEVISED OPERA PERFORMANCES
| PAUL BUNYON (New York City Opera) | LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER (PBS) |
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE* (San Francisco Opera) | GREAT PERFORMANCES (PBS) |
| CENTRAL PARK* (Glimmerglass Opera) | GREAT PERFORMANCES (PBS) |
CONCERT EXPERIENCE (Selected)
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE* (Andre Previn, Conductor) | LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA |
| KERN & HERBERT CELEBRATION (John McGlinn, Conductor) | CANADIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY |
| KERN & HERBERT CELEBRATION (John McGlinn, Conductor) | DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA |
| VERY WARM FOR MAY (Concert Production) | CARNEGIE HALL PRODUCTIONS |
STAGED SONG RECITALS
ICARUS IGNORED: Andree Expedition (Argento)/Flight of Lindbergh(Brecht/Weill)
VANISHED: The Diary of One Who Vanished (Janacek)/Le Peintre du Traveil (Poulenc)
BARE: Die Winterreise (Schubert)
UTOPIA PARKWAY: La Bonne Chanson (Faure) /Songs from Composers (Argento)
WANDERLUST: Die Schöne Müllerin (Schubert)
CANTICLE: Canticle I (Britten)/Elizabethan Songs (Argento)
AUDIO RECORDINGS
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE* (Williams/Previn) | DEUTSCHE GRAMAPHON |
| DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (O’Neill.Thomas) | NAXOS RECORDS |
| STRAWBERRY FIELDS* (Gurney/Torke) | ECSTATIC RECORDS |
| ARCHITECT* (Spratlan/Kallick/Downey) | NAVONA RECORDS |
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE (Selected)
| THE COLORED MUSEUM (Wolfe) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| UNDER A MANTLE OF STARS (Puig) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (McCullers) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| THE ILLUSION (Kushner) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (Albee) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| THE THREE SISTERS (Chekhov) ~ | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| PRELUDE TO A KISS (Lucas) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| ART (Reza) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| RAISED IN CAPTIVITY (Silver) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| SPIRALE* | KCACTF, Region II Festival, 2004 |
| THE SEAGULL (Chekhov) ~ | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| BLOOD WEDDING (Lorca) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| INTO THE WOODS (Sondheim) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| MACHINAL (Treadwell) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| WAITING FOR GODOT (Beckett) | KCACTF, National Festival, 2007 |
| THE MIKADO (Gilbert/Sullivan) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| HYDRIOTAPHIA (Kushner) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Burgess) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| YOU ARE HERE* | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| FISH OUT OF WATER * | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Brecht/Weill) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Chekhov) ~ | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| EURYDICE (Ruhl) | KCACTF, Region II Festival, 2011 |
| ARCADIA (Stoppard) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Williams) | KCACTF, Region II Festival, 2013 |
| BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA (Mee) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| ORDINARY DAYS (Gwon) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| VORTEX* | KCACTF, Region II Festival, 2014 |
| MAELSTROM* | KCACTF, Region II Festival, 2015 |
| CLYBOURNE PARK (Norris) | KCACTF, Region II Festival, 2016 |
| THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Gilbert/Sullivan) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
| CANDIDE (Bernstein/Wheler/Hellman) | Domino Players Company, Albright College |
*WORLD PREMIERE ~ORIGINAL ADAPTATION
HONORS AND AWARDS
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS AND SCIENCES
Grammy Nomination
(Category 95 Best Opera Recording) DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS -Thomas Jan, 2004
KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE FESTIVAL
Region 2, Festival Production Invitation (The Ubu Saga: SPIRALE) January, 2004
Region 2, Festival Production Invitation (Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT) January, 2004
National Festival Production Invitation (Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT) April, 2007
Region 2, Festival Production Invitation (Ruhl’s EURYDICE) January, 2011
National Festival Recognition (Directing Excellence — Sarah Ruhl’s EURYDICE) April, 2011
Region 2, Festival Production Invitation (Williams’ A STREETCAR NAME DESIRE) January, 2013
Region 2 Festival Production Invitation (The Ubu Saga: VORTEX) January, 2014
Region 2 Festival Production Invitation (The Ubu Saga: MAELSTROM) January, 2015
Region 2 Festival Production Invitation (Norris’ CLYBOURNE PARK) January, 2016
National Festival Production Recognition, Best Play (Norris’ CLYBOURNE PARK) April, 2016
National Festival Production Recognition, Best Director (Norris’ CLYBOURNE PARK) April, 2016
NEW YORK CITY OPERA
Kolosvar Award – THE GLASSBLOWERS) May, 2000
Kolosvar Award – THE MOTHER OF US ALL) May, 1998
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE
Distinguished Young Alumnus May, 1998
Annadora Vesper Shirk Teaching Award for Scholarly and Creative Accomplishment May, 2005
The Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award May, 2009
Albright PRIDE Award December, 2011
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Lucy G. Moses Fellowship May, 1986
Yale School of Music Scholarship June, 1985
Courses Taught
Theatre 101: The Creative Process
Theatre 150: Acting Studio I
Theatre 250: Acting Studio II
Theatre 287: The History of the American Musical
Theatre 350: Directing Studio
Theatre 388: Postmodern American Drama