Kelley Rourke

Kelley Rourke is a librettist, translator and dramaturg. Libretti include Eat the Document, Lucy and Stay (John Glover); The Beekeeper (Wang Lu); The Emissary (Kenji Oh); Wilde Tales and And Still We Dream (Laura Karpman); The Jungle Book (Kamala Sankaram); and Odyssey and Robin Hood (Ben Moore). Her work has been commissioned and performed by the Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Washington National Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, American Composers Orchestra, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, Atlanta Opera, Minnesota Opera, Carnegie Hall, Met LiveArts, Opera Parallèle and Houston Grand Opera, among others. Kelley is resident dramaturg for The Glimmerglass Festival and Artistic Advisor for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative.