About Doug
DOUG FITCH is a polymath visual artist working in architecture, opera, puppetry, sustenance and design, whose creative life began within his family’s touring puppet theatre. He has worked with director Robert Wilson, puppeteer Jim Henson, designer Gaetano Pesce and conceptual artist Arakawa. As a director/designer, he created productions for the Los Angeles and Santa Fe Opera houses. For the New York Philharmonic, he staged Le Grand Macabre, The Cunning Little Vixen, A Dancer’s Dream and Gloria – A Pig Tale, performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He directed Orphic Moments by the American composer Matthew Aucoin at the Salzburg Landestheater. Fitch is a co-founder of the entertainment company Giants Are Small, whose multimedia version of Peter and the Wolf, produced in collaboration with Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon. Recent highlights include the genre-defying Pan with music by Marcos Balter for flutist Claire Chase, revivals of Hansel and Gretel at the Los Angeles Opera and Le Grand Macabre at the Elbphilharmonie. His production of Pùnkitititi premiered at the Salzburg Marionette Theatre as part of the 2020 Mozart Week. He has also written the books: Organs of Emotion and Mit Haut und Haaren.