Opera Reading Project

LXCL:This amount covers your class participation and will help us to keep performer training fees low, defray artistic staff costs, and continue providing such programming in the future.

General Admission

Get Your Materials In Order: Resume &amp; Bio Writing Workshop provides you with the opportunity to strengthen your critical application materials and grab evaluators&#39; attention. Led by Siena Forest, this workshop will give participants an overview of best practices regarding resumes, bios, and headshots, followed by personalized active work on your materials and time for peer review and feedback. Participants should plan to bring two printed copies of their resume, as well as a laptop or other device from which they can do active work on their materials.&nbsp; Questions regarding this event or about our Fall 2026 Class Series: Ready, Set Audition! should be directed to <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:operareadingproject@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">operareadingproject@gmail.com</a> __________________________________________ Siena Forest is an arts leader, fundraiser, consultant, and professional opera singer, currently serving as Senior Associate Director of Individual Giving at Minnesota Opera, where she leads individual fundraising strategy and advances the company&rsquo;s mission through relationship-building. Before moving into fundraising, Siena built a career as a performer, educator, producer, and nonprofit founder. She has also served as a grant panelist and arts consultant, participated in OPERA America&rsquo;s Leadership Intensive, and serves as Entertainment Chair of the Twin Cities Opera Guild. Siena is particularly interested in helping artists translate the often-unstructured reality of creative careers into clear, compelling professional narratives. Having reinvented her own career across performance, education, entrepreneurship, and fundraising, she understands that the challenge is rarely a lack of experience; it&rsquo;s knowing how to tell the story.&nbsp;

Get Your Materials In Order: Resume &amp; Bio Writing Workshop provides you with the opportunity to strengthen your critical application materials and grab evaluators' attention. Led by Siena Forest, this workshop will give participants an overview of best practices regarding resumes, bios, and headshots, followed by personalized active work on your materials and time for peer review and feedback. Participants should plan to bring two printed copies of their resume, as well as a laptop or other device from which they can do active work on their materials.  Questions regarding this event or about our Fall 2026 Class Series: Ready, Set Audition! should be directed to <a href="mailto:operareadingproject@gmail.com" target="_blank">operareadingproject@gmail.com</a> __________________________________________ Siena Forest is an arts leader, fundraiser, consultant, and professional opera singer, currently serving as Senior Associate Director of Individual Giving at Minnesota Opera, where she leads individual fundraising strategy and advances the company’s mission through relationship-building. Before moving into fundraising, Siena built a career as a performer, educator, producer, and nonprofit founder. She has also served as a grant panelist and arts consultant, participated in OPERA America’s Leadership Intensive, and serves as Entertainment Chair of the Twin Cities Opera Guild. Siena is particularly interested in helping artists translate the often-unstructured reality of creative careers into clear, compelling professional narratives. Having reinvented her own career across performance, education, entrepreneurship, and fundraising, she understands that the challenge is rarely a lack of experience; it’s knowing how to tell the story.

Opera Reading Project

Get Your Materials in Order: Resume & Bio Writing Workshop

620 N 1st St

General Admission

$50

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