Camilla Tassi


Born in Florence, Italy, NYC based.
Italian, English, and Spanish speaker. Dual citizen US + EU.
After moving to the US, I studied computer science and music. It's at the intersection of technology and live performance that I fell in love with projection design and storytelling (plays, operas, musicals, dance, and everything in between).
Work as a projection designer on over 100 productions, including Carnegie Hall, Miami City Ballet, TheaterWorks Hartford, Lincoln Center/Juilliard415, Brooklyn Academy of Music, LA Opera, Kennedy Center, Beth Morrison Projects, Boston Baroque, Cal Performances & UMS Michigan, Baltimore Center Stage, Walt Disney Concert Hall/LA Master Chorale, Long Center/Conspirare, Yale Opera, Heartbeat Opera, Yale School of Drama, Montreal New Music, Music Academy of the West, National Sawdust, Roulette, as well as for recitals, chamber music, and theater at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Indiana University opera, Repertorio Español, PROTOTYPE Festival, Mass MoCA, and others.
Broadway: Associate video, Illinoise.
produced and directed works including Song from the Uproar (CT), Talk to Me Like the Rain (NH), La Resurrezione (IN), If This is a Man: music, science, and humanity (IN) - which included the US Premiere of Ennio Morricone's Se questo e` un uomo for chamber orchestra, soprano, and reciting voice.
As an Italian coach & translator, original translations for Carnegie Hall (L'Arpeggiata), Apollo's Fire, and diction coaching.
As a classical vocalist, "Cunegonde" Candide, "Celia" As You Like It, and "Drusilla" L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Chorally, she sang with the Yale Schola Cantorum and NY Philharmonic. Instrumental proficiency in piano and harpsichord.
Guest lectured at institutions including Princeton, Yale, Penn State, Pratt, and Dartmouth.
- BS in Computer Science & BA in Music (Minor in Italian Studies) from the University of Notre Dame
- MA in Digital Musics at Dartmouth College.
- MFA Yale Drama
Recent Awards
- Connecticut Critics Circle 2025 (won)
- Robert L. Tobin Director-Designer Prize, Opera America, 2023 (won)
- Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship, 2022
- San Diego Opera Hack (proposal winner, 2021)