A finalist for the 2024 International Opera Awards in the Director category, American director Louisa Muller is quickly rising to prominence for her versatility and work of "complex finesse" (The Guardian). Louisa's recent production of The Turn of the Screw for Garsington Opera was the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and named by The Guardian as one of the Top Ten Classical Music Performances of the Year.

This season Louisa directs new productions of Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera North, The Bartered Bride for Irish National Opera, and Elizabeth Cree for Music Academy of the West, as well as bringing her La Traviata to Garsington Opera and acting as Associate Director for the UK and Ireland tour of Bartlett Sher's To Kill a Mockingbird. Last season she directed The Turn of the Screw for her return to Santa Fe Opera, La Traviata at Dallas Opera, Dialogues des Carmélites at The Juilliard School, and the National Opera Studio residency at Opera North.

Future engagements include new productions for the Metropolitan Opera and MusikTheater an der Wien, as well as revivals of her productions at Canadian Opera Company and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

She has directed at the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Houston Grand Opera, New York Philharmonic, Edinburgh International Festival, Minnesota Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Colorado, Boston Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque, The Juilliard School, and Opera Queensland.