Edward Sturm (he/him) is a director and producer of theatre and opera. Edward has held a variety of artistic and administrative posts at major companies including Bucks County Playhouse, Opera Philadelphia, Central City Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Arcola Theatre (London), and Music Theatre Wichita. Upcoming work includes a return to Boston University’s Fringe Festival to direct the chamber opera The Eleanors, as well as a return to Opera Philadelphia to assist director Zack Winokur in the world premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s Complications in Sue.

Recent directing credits include a staged concert of “Opera’s Greatest Hits” at Central City Opera. Recent assistant directing work includes a host of collaborations with director Alison Moritz: new productions of Don Giovanni at Opera Philadelphia, Fantastic Mr. Fox at Opera Omaha, and Once Upon a Mattress in collaboration with choreographer John Heginbotham. Other recent work includes assisting Sam Helfrich on Handel’s Alcina at the Mannes School of Music, Daniel Pelzig on Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at Central City Opera, and Brenna Corner on Massenet’s Cendrillon at Boston University. In the fall of 2024, Edward served as the associate producer of Bucks County Playhouse, supporting producing director Alex Fraser, as well as producers Robyn Goodman and Josh Fiedler.

Edward is a graduate of the School of Theatre at Boston University, where he also studied history. At BU, Edward collaborated widely as a dramaturg, writer, and performer. He provided research supporting Ain Gordon in the development of These Don’t Easily Scatter, worked closely with Mya Ison in both Boston and New York workshops of her play Laure, and has provided dramaturgy for productions at BU, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Music Theatre Wichita. Edward also presented academic work in the Kilachand Honors College and was awarded the Trustee Scholarship, Boston University’s most selective undergraduate scholarship. He finished his time at BU co-devising a thesis project titled Greek Fest which combined the works of Euripides and Aristophanes with contemporary texts.

Edward’s full-length play Priscilla received a “springboard” reading at Boston University in December 2022 and a staged developmental workshop at the Joan and Edgar Booth Theater in September 2023. Based on a single photograph of a 1988 denuclearization protest at the Nevada Test Site, the play explores how the literal fallout of ecological destruction seeps into our personal tragedies.

Beginning performing at the age of seven, Edward trained for many years as a singer and a dancer. Early work in musical theatre included the regional premiere production of Mary Poppins, directed by Wayne Bryan, and the titular role in Pippin, for which he was nominated for a Jester Award. In Boston, Edward developed a facility for Shakespeare work and physical theatre/movement.