Michael Ouellette was trained at Brown, Harvard and the Shakespeare Institute to teach Classics and Comparative Literature, then changed direction, into theater. After earning an MFA in Southern Methodist University's Professional Theater Training Program, he free-lanced as an actor and director in Chicago, where he also was Artistic Director of Bailiwick Repertory. Since 1989, he has taught at MIT and is now Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts. He was the recipient of the 1996 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize, awarded by the MIT Council for the Arts. At the Williamstown Theater Festival, he was the Acting Instructor for the Apprentice Program for several years. In the premiere of the oratorio Reckoning Time by Peter Child and Alan Brody, he created the role of Peter. He wrote the libretto for Charles Shadle's opera, Coyote's Dinner, which was produced at MIT in the fall of 2001; a second opera, A Question of Love, commissioned by Boston-based Intermezzo, received its first performance in 2005. The fourth of their operatic collaborations, A Last Goodbye, was premiered by Intermezzo in May, 2008. 2009 saw the premiere of Peter Child's cantata, Louisa's War, for which Ouellette wrote the libretto.
Adam Kerry Boyles is the Music Director of the MIT Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of MetroWest Opera, and a Staff Conductor with Boston Opera Collaborative. He was Music Director of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and of the University of Texas at Austin Orchestra. Guest conducting engagements include performances with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Austin Chamber Ensemble, Audio Inversions, Oregon Bach Festival, and the University of Arizona Opera Theater. He was Staff Conductor at Opera in the Ozarks for two summers where he led and assisted with many performances. Dr. Boyles made his New York debut with the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra in the 2004 Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar, and returned for appearances in April 2005 & 2008. An experienced singer, Adam performed in numerous operas with the Indiana University Opera Theater, and as a chorister in Arizona Opera's first complete presentation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Adam has sung with ensembles across the country such as Conspirare, Apollo's Voice, Mon Choeur, Cantique, Tucson Chamber Artists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus