Haley Marie Stark

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Stage Director

Boston-based theater director. Harvard College ’25 — double concentrator in Theater, Dance & Media (thesis awarded Highest Honors) and Psychology. Columbia School of the Arts MFA ’29 Directing student. Executive Director of Lowell House Opera Company. Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts (2025). Harvard University Presidential Public Service Fellowship (2024).

No Exit — Opera Adaptation

Lowell House Opera, March 2026

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The cast and production team of Lowell House Opera’s No Exit. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Club of Boston

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