MICHAEL COUNTS is a visual artist, stage director and designer who has been focused on creating large-scale immersive installations and theatrical productions, often in unconventional spaces, for the last 18 years. Recent projects include Rossini’sMoses In Egyptwith the New York City Opera at NY City Center,Philharmonic 360with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic at the Park Avenue Armory andMonodramas, his New York City Opera debut at the Koch Theater, in 2011.

In 1996 Michael co-founded GAle GAtes et al., a visual and performance art theater company with which he created a series of productions in Manhattan’s financial district, in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand and in Hakushu, Japan before taking over a 40,000 sq/ft warehouse space in the area of Brooklyn, now known as DUMBO. Within the GAle GAtes space in DUMBO, Counts designed and directed a series of ground-breaking environmental theatrical installations that drew a devoted following and international attention – they included,The Field of Mars,Tilly Losch,1839, and the widely acclaimed adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy,So Long Ago I Can’t Remember.