Associate Creative Producer

Anderson NunnellEy

Dedicated to advancing opera and contemporary music in new, interdisciplinary experiences, Anderson Nunnelley is the Associate Creative Producer for Long Beach Opera’s 2025 season. He serves on the directing staff at LA Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, and Boston Lyric Opera, with additional production credits at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, San Diego Opera, and the PROTOTYPE Festival.

Anderson has collaborated on several world premieres, including most recently working as the associate director on the Roya Sadat production of Sheila Silver's A Thousand Splendid Suns (Seattle Opera), associate director on the Tazewell Thompson production of Jeanine Tesori's Blue (Seattle Opera), assistant director on the James Darrah productions of Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up (Opera Omaha) and Academy Award-winner John Corigliano's opera The Lord of Cries(Santa Fe Opera). 

Driven by opera film and integrated productions, Anderson was the associate producer for the Grammy-nominated film Soldier Songs (Opera Philadelphia). Anderson was part of the production team for Svadba (Boston Lyric Opera/Opera Philadelphia), which won the 2023 Digital Excellence Award in Artistic Creation presented by Opera America. Additional film credits include serving as the creative director and producer for the concert docuseries titled B. (Boston Lyric Opera).

In addition to associate directing El Relicario De Los Animales for this season at LBO, his engagements include serving as associate director for Matthew Ozawa's production of Madama Butterfly at Pittsburgh Opera and Utah Opera, directing concert performances of Les Troyens at Seattle Opera in early 2025 and returning to staging staff at the Santa Fe Opera this summer.