José Israel García, Jr., (stage director), known as Joey, is a teaching artist and stage director from Brownsville, Texas. Their wide-ranging background includes artistic, technical, production, and administrative positions with The Glimmerglass Festival, Aspen Opera Theater & VocalARTS, PROTOTYPE Festival & Beth Morrison Projects, Des Moines Metro Opera, Red River Lyric Opera, Druid City Opera, Chicago Summer Opera, Florida State Opera, Bravo Opera Company, Spotlight on Opera, Camille Playhouse, Brownsville George Ramirez Performing Arts Conservatory, and the Harlingen Performing Arts Conservatory. García has directed new productions of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World (Camille Playhouse), Daniel Catán’s La hija de Rappaccini, Lee Hoiby’s The Scarf (Florida State Opera), and Dan Shore’s The Beautiful Bridegroom (Chicago Summer Opera). Most recently, they served as a Resident Artist at The Glimmerglass Festival, assisting Louisa Proske on a new production of Puccini’s Tosca. This season, García joins The Atlanta Opera as the Studio Artist Director, assisting on productions of Verdi’s La traviata, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Puccini’s Turandot.