Elena Park

Director Elena Park is creative director of Lumahai Productions and executive producer of “Visual Cavafy.” Her short films and music projects have featured Vietnamese musician Vân-Ánh Võ, the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert and Jane Glover, and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke along with violinist Ben Beilman and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Elena's award-winning “In Song” video portraits, created with San Francisco Opera, have showcased opera singers such as Jamie Barton (with Béla Fleck), J'Nai Bridges, and Pretty Yende. Her National Sawdust+ series has presented artists such as Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Jad Abumrad, Ava DuVernay, Gandini Juggling, Yo-Yo Ma, Nico Muhly, Patti Smith, Esperanza Spalding, and Carrie Mae Weems. Select credits: Metropolitan Opera's “Live in HD” and radio shows, Kennedy Center programming, San Francisco Opera's Instigators, “Bel Canto” (feature film), and Amazon's “Mozart in the Jungle.”