Bringing to play 30 years as an internationally renowned operatic tenor, Marc Deaton also brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a stage director. His education consists of intensive study with attention to both music, acting, and drama. Marc began a professional theatre company in Madison Connecticut in 2010, Madison Lyric Stage, where he serves as Artistic Director. In the last several seasons, he has directed, produced, and often performed in plays, operas, and musicals in widely contrasting styles, “with an emphasis on the human elements in productions, alongside a fresh unique view for the audience often transforming traditional repertoire into something fascinating and beautiful”.
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Additionally, Marc Deaton has staged and produced many revues and themed concerts of varying composers including Sondheim, Webber, Weill and Britten. He has established his unique vision for interactive and immersive theatre applied to both grand lyric and traditional theatre. Bringing his training acquired from esteemed directors in theatres throughout the world to his own company, and now to opera and theatre companies worldwide, Marc’s passion for theatre of all styles shows clearly in his work on the stage, creating new and evocative productions with his company Madison Lyric Stage along with upcoming opportunities both in the United States and Europe.
Marc studied theater at Southern Utah University, home to the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he was blessed with great guidance from both faculty members and visiting artists to the festival. This work and mentoring provided Marc with a strong acting technique and fervent desire to direct and eventually lead his own company that would encompass both lyric and spoken theatre.
Marc also created an emerging artists program, now in its 10th season, providing masterclasses, and full productions for these artists by leading them through their journey of becoming experienced and developed artists.
Works Staged by Marc Deaton
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen…Williams
Macbeth…. Shakespeare
Peter Grimes… Britten & Slater
The Glass Menagerie…Williams
A Little Night Music… Sondheim
Evita…Lloyd Webber & Rice
Salome… Strauss
Blithe Spirit…Coward
Otello… Verdi
Jesus Christ Superstar… Lloyd Webber & Rice
Agnes of God… Pielmeier
Godspell… Schwartz
Company… Sondheim & Furth
The Turn of the Screw… Britten & Piper
We Lived Only for the Music: Max Lorenz and the Third Reich… Deaton
Of Mice and Men…Floyd
Into the Woods… Sondheim & Lapine
Hansel & Gretel… Humperdinck
On Golden Pond…Thompson
Music of the Night…An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber
A Memory of Truth?… Deaton
The Boys in the Band… Crowley
Erwartung… Schoenberg
Suor Angelica… Puccini
Curlew River… Britten
The Seven Deadly Sins…Weill
Sweeney Todd… Sondheim
Pippin… Schwartz
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?… Albee
Trial by Jury/The Sorcerer…Gilbert/ Sullivan
Angels in America/ Part I Millennium Approaches…Kushner
Spring Awakening…Sater/Sheik
Postcards from Pierrot…Schoenberg/ Berg/ Marc Deaton
Elegy of a Fallen Angel…Deaton/Baker
Climb Every Mountain…Rodgers/Hammerstein/Deaton
Maidens, Witches and Femme Fatales, Women of Opera… Deaton
HMS Pinafore…Gilbert/Sullivan
Elektra… Strauss/ Hofmannstahl
The Fantasticks… Jones / Schmidt
All That Jazz… Kander / Ebb/ Deaton
Amahl and he Night Visitors…Menotti
Upcoming Projects
We Lived Only for the Music: Max Lorenz and the Third Reich…Deaton
A Memory of Truth?…Deaton /Baker
We’ve Got Magic to Do Music by Stephen Schwartz /Schwartz/Deaton
Amadeus…Shaffer
The Medium,The Human Voice…Menotti, Poulenc/Cocteau