Elkhanah Pulitzer is an American stage director and

librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major ...

who primarily works in opera. She was an assistant director at

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from 2008 to 2013 and was the artistic curator for SF Opera Lab. Since 2010, Pulitzer has worked extensively with West Edge Opera, an experimental opera company in the

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. She also serves as board vice president for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

Works

Personal life

Pulitzer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She now lives in

El Cerrito, California El Cerrito (Spanish language, Spanish for "The Little Hill") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 United States census, 2 ...

. She is the great-great-granddaughter of

Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer ( ; born , ; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World''. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democ ...

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Living people American women theatre directors Female opera directors American opera directors American theatre directors American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Year of birth missing (living people) Singers from Boston Singers from St. Louis {{US-opera-singer-stub