Roxie Perkins

Roxie Perkins is an American artist who writes and directs for theatre, opera, TV, and film. She is the librettist of Ellen Reid's Pulitzer Prize winning opera p r i s m. Together they also won The Music Critics Association of North America's 2019 ‘Best New Opera’ Award, and were nominated for ‘Best World Premiere’ at the 2020 International Opera Awards. Roxie has been awarded a Sundance Playwright Fellowship, and her plays have been a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Conference as well as for the Princess Grace Award. Her work has been programmed at The Kennedy Center's DIRECT CURRENT Festival, REDCAT, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, PROTOTYPE Festival, LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Cutting Ball Theater, Crowded Fire Theater's Matchbox Reading Series, The Tank NYC, The LARK’s Roundtable Reading Series, Oberlin College, and internationally at Theatro Municipal in São Paulo. She lives in Berlin and this is her debut at the Dutch National Opera. 

DNO debut