Opera Saratoga presented Offenbach’s romp through Paris with hummable tunes and champagne-fueled seductions that “… felt like one big summer house party” (The Times Union). Philip starred as the bourgeois bachelor Bobinet.
La Vie Parisienne was directed by Mary Birnbaum, conducted by Juliane Gallant, and featured new English dialogue by Tim Drucker. Performances ran from June 20 – 28 at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Arizona Musicfest, in collaboration with the Herberger Theater Center, presented one of the most beloved American musicals of all time, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel. This iconic work celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2025.
Carousel, A Concert featured the 45-piece Musicfest Pops Ensemble, conducted by Josh Condon, bringing to life the work’s sweeping symphonic splendor for three performances only. Philip played the role of Jigger Craigin and covered Billy Bigelow.
On the Other Shore: American Folk Songs with Philip Stoddard, baritone & Vera Hsu, piano. Stage actor and operatic baritone Philip Stoddard joined Cornell music faculty member Vera Hsu in a performance of Steven Mark Kohn’s American Folk Set.
Thursday, February 6th 2025 at 7:30pm
Barnes Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater, in collaboration with NYU Skirball, presented a daring reimagining of the seminal musical Show Boat, now re-envisioned as Show/Boat: A River. Part of the 2025 Under the Radar Festival, the production performed January 9-26, 2025, at NYU Skirball. Target Margin Founding Artistic Director David Herskovits directed the production and Philip played the role of “Ravenal.”
September 26 – October 27 at the Unicorn Theater in Stockbridge, MA
Step into a windswept County Leitrim pub in rural Ireland where the chill in the air isn’t just from the storm outside. Tony Award-nominated playwright Conor McPherson’s celebrated play The Weir unfolds as a captivating and evocative evening set in a small, remote pub, drawing audiences into a world where tales of folklore and the supernatural weave an enchanting, yet eerie, atmosphere. Directed by Eric Hill. Philip played the role of “Brendan.”
Philip appears as “James Bevan” on HBO Max’s hit television show The Gilded Age, from the creator of Downton Abbey.
Season 3 episodes are currently streaming on HBO Max.
Shroomery is a body horror film with splatstick elements that delights in the bizarre and alien world of mushrooms. It follows a young couple, Lacey and Miles, who have two different visions of where their relationship is going: Lacey is a young professional trying to move forward in her life and wants Miles to grow up with her, and Miles just wants to enjoy life and believes loving Lacey is enough. Miles brings home some strange, abnormal ‘shrooms’ with the intent to spice up their sex life, but the mushrooms have a will of their own – and grow promiscuously until they take over the couple. Philip stars as “Miles.” Directed by Dane Benko, currently in post-production.
For decades, operetta charmed audiences across the globe with the promise of happy endings and the allure of sweet melodies. Its perfume is still potent – and surprisingly varied, from the wit of Gilbert & Sullivan, to the opulence of Lehár, to the grit of masters like Sondheim, Kurt Weill, and Astor Piazzolla. Happily Ever After is not just a feast for the ears but also a bracing exploration of popular culture from eight countries. Sung by a brilliant cast of artists featuring baritone Philip Stoddard, tenor Scott Rubén La Marca, and soprano Adriana Stepien, the show reunites Steven Blier with one of his favorite collaborators, the stage director Katherine M. Carter. Presented by Oysterponds Community Activities.
Musings on the Nature of Magic broadcast live over the airwaves.
Conceived by Philip Themio Stoddard & B. Rafidi, featuring Aaron Stokes and Julian Loida.
From the heart of Philip Themio Stoddard, comes perhaps the first magic show made for airwaves. “On Magic” is a playful meditation on the nature of Magic, featuring music, storytelling, candle ritual and wonder. A feast for the senses. Join a live audience for this one-night-only-never-been-seen-before event.
A world premiere 75-minute opera, sung in English.
Composed by Daniel Schlosberg
Libretto by Amanda Quaid, based on her play
Directed by Shadi Ghaheri
A young couple is trying to have a baby. Ice caps are melting. Forests are burning. In the face of environmental collapse, one woman wonders if the best way to protect a future child is not to have one at all. It all goes according to plan until she discovers she has little choice in the matter. In this dark comedy, a woman’s body becomes a battleground of political anguish, conflicting desire, and existential dread.
Philip joined award-winning pianist Michael Stephen Brown for an intimate concert to benefit the work of Creatives Care, a non-profit that provides affordable mental health care to artists.
Philip made his Broadway debut in the 2023 Lincoln Center Theater revival of Lerner & Loewe’s CAMELOT at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He can be heard on the Original Broadway Cast recording, streaming now.
Philip joined longtime friend Dr. Allen Steere for an evening of selections from Schubert’s masterpiece to benefit the work of mental health organizations NAMI and Creatives Care.
Nordic Hall, Scandinavian Cultural Center
Newton, MA
Philip reprises his role as Dr. Carl Jung in a one-night-only concert performance of Louise Beach and Willy Holtzman’s musical SABINA at The Century Club in Manhattan.
New Hampshire
LIAR LEAR KING is an adaptation of King Lear set in New York, 1972. The story is focused not on King Lear and his tragedy, but on Cordelia his daughter, and her epic journey as she becomes a force who can mount an invasion of her own country, only to die at the hands of her own sisters. Featuring world-premiere score from Ellis Ludwig Leone and choreography from in-demand choreographer Danielle Rowe.
Philip was engaged by The Peace Studio to curate, commission, and produce the “100 Offerings of Peace” Campaign. Between July 1st and November 1st, 2020, this campaign commissioned over 100 creatives from around the world to generate new works of art around what peace means to them amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the impassioned protests over racial injustices across our globe.
Throughout the campaign: 25 countries were engaged worldwide; brand-new daily content garnered over 1 million unique views across digital platforms; over $25,000 was invested in out-of-work artists and storytellers; 14 different partnerships were forged with nonprofits on co-commissions in the United States, Africa and Europe; with special media coverage by NowThis News and CNN and in The Boston Globe, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and numerous others
Perhaps the most tragic casualties of the Great War were the soldiers whose faces had been horribly disfigured in battle. For these mutilés, the war would never be over. Shunned for their grotesque appearance by the very communities they fought to protect, many refused to leave the hospital; some committed suicide. Inspired to help when the medical community turned their backs, Anna Coleman Ladd, an American sculptor living in Boston, voluntarily moved to Paris and established the Studio for Portrait-Masks in 1918. Here she developed a unique method that used her artistic talent to create cosmetic masks so life-like that they “gave life back to them that prayed for death.” Through music, dance, film and innovative technology, The Workshop of Broken Faces brings the remarkable true story of Anna’s transformational encounter with a wounded young soldier to life on stage for the very first time.
The Bach Project re-contextualizes Cantata 97, In Allen Meinen Taten, of Johann Sebastian Bach for four singers, cello, violin, keyboard and vibraphone. The program poses questions and responses to the the major themes at work in Bach’s worldview as well as contemporary society: doubt and faith, hatred and tolerance, injustice and peace. The cantata is interrupted with material that is contrapuntal to Bach’s statements of faith — including poetry and dramatic text from Kaveh Akbar, Adam Zagajewski, Lilian Hellman, and Rainer Maria Rilke and musical material such as Haitian folk songs, gospel, Arvo Pärt, and original compositions. Created to celebrate and challenge our collective humanity, The Bach Project is a kaleidoscopic journey through profound expressions of what it is to be human.
“… the artists of Satellite Collective vividly and memorably reinterpreted the myth at BAM Fisher. It is too bad that there were only two performances of this imaginative production directed by Philip Stoddard.”
Featuring original music, live chamber performance, visual art, ballet, multimedia, opera, and lighting design, Echo & Narcissus illuminates the unrest and discord of our current political moment. This ambitious interdisciplinary project by the Satellite Collective showcases the deftness of its team. Live music of original score performed by ShoutHouse. Co-written and Directed by Philip Stoddard.
Philip is a co-founder of OperaComp: the first interdivisional opera development laboratory at Juilliard, which culminated in the world premiere of six new operas at National Sawdust in 2018. This successful experimental program has become a launching pad for the next generation of creative voices in opera, as well as becoming a new tenet in the composition curriculum at Juilliard. In addition to the serving on the inaugural leadership team, he directed the world premieres of The Magician and the Magician’s Assistant by Jack Gulielmetti and Vulnerable City by Yihan Chen.
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