American Director Leonard Foglia’s opera credits include the premieres of three operas by Jake Heggie, Moby-Dick, Three Decembers and The End of the Affair and his production of Heggie’s Dead Man Walking has been seen across the US. As a librettist, his opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon) had its premiere at Houston Grand Opera and was performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. His theater credits include the original Broadway productions of Master Class with Zoe Caldwell, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, Thurgood with Laurence Fishburne and The People in the Picture with Donna Murphy as well as the revivals of Wait Until Dark with Quentin Tarantino and Marisa Tomei and On Golden Pond with James Earl Jones. Off Broadway and on national tour he directed Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy. His productions of Thurgood was filmed for HBO and Let Me Down Easy for PBS. He is co-author, with David Richards, of two mystery novels, 1 Ragged Ridge Road and Face Down in the Park and the thrillers The Sudarium Trilogy: The Surrogate, The Son and The Savior.