American director Leonard Fogliamade his San Francisco Opera with 2008’s Three Decembers. He made his Houston Grand Opera debut in 2004 directing the world premiere of Heggie’s The End of the Affair, which he later directed for Seattle Opera and Madison Opera. Other opera credits include Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for Opera Pacific, New York City Opera, and in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, and the world premieres of Three Decembers at Houston Grand Opera and Moby-Dick at the Dallas Opera. Foglia’s Broadway credits include Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning Master Class (also on national tour and in London’s West End); On Golden Pond (also at the Kennedy Center and on national tour); Wait Until Dark;and Thurgood this past season. Off Broadway he directed The Stendhal Syndrome, One Touch of Venus, If Memory Serves, By the Sea, and Lonely Planet. Foglia’s other theater credits include Unusual Acts of Devotion (Philadelphia Theater Company); Distracted (Mark Taper Forum); Things Being What They Are (Bay Street Theater); Paper Doll and The Secret Letters of Jackie and Marilyn (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Thurgood (Westport Playhouse); The Subject was Roses (Kennedy Center); and God’s Man in Texas (The Globe Theatres). He is co-author, with David Richards, of the mystery novels 1 Ragged Ridge Road, Face Down in the Park, El Sudario, and La Sangre del Sudario.