Jamibeth Margolis is an accomplished stage director based in NYC. She has fifteen years of professional experience working in theater and opera. During that time, she has worked consistently at some of the most prestigious theaters and opera companies around the US. Last season, she directed Pirates of Penzance for Boheme Opera.  She was the recipient of the competitive SDCF Directing Observership on Mark Lamos' production of Tosca at New York City Opera and served as Assistant Stage Director for La Traviata at Opera NJ. Prior to that she assisted with the casting for The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera starring Placido Domingo. At Ithaca College, she served as stage director for Dance of Death (Distler) as guest director in the school of music and also worked on a production of The Tender Land. As casting director for Johnson-Liff Associates, Jamibeth was in charge of the casting for all of the US companies of The Phantom of the Opera (Lloyd Webber) for five years. She toured the US scouting the best up and coming and established classical singers.

Currently Jamibeth serves as Artistic Director For Musicals at the Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) where she fosters new writing talent and looks to bring a dozen new musicals and operas to life each summer. This summer she will be directing Naked In Encino (a new play) at MITF.  Jamibeth also teaches musical theater and opera performance and audition technique in NYC.

Recent theatrical directing credits include Family Dinner at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row and Do I Hear a Waltz? and Jekyll and Hyde at the Arvada Center Theater in Denver. Jamibeth served as assistant director to Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks on the recent Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and also on Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend at Lincoln Center Theatre. She has also helmed developmental productions of the following new musical works: Owl Creek, Far From the Madding Crowd, Plane Crazy, Great Googley Moo, 1812, and Warsaw (which is currently on track for a Broadway production in the next two years).

Jamibeth is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the Casting Society of America, and the Stage Directors And Choreographers Society.   She served as a Tony Awards Voter for three Broadway seasons. She holds a B.A. from Ithaca College in Drama/Directing with a minor in music.

Upcoming Projects: Tosca at Boheme Opera in NJ and Warsaw in Voorhees, NJ

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