Luna Pearl Fraiser - Teaching artist in Playwriting, Set and Costume Design

Award-winning composer Luna Pearl Woolf has long used her evocative voice to advocate for social and political change. Her work has been praised as “brilliant … profoundly moving” (Opera Going Toronto) for its “psychological nuances and emotional depth” (NY Times). Her dramatic works are championed by major opera houses and international performing artists.

Woolf’s oratorio Number Our Days, with concept and libretto by David Van Taylor, was commissioned by PAC NYC and premiered in its inaugural 2023-2024 season. CBC Music named the JUNO award-nominated recording of Woolf’s 2022 work, Contact,  their #1 Classical Album of the year. Her 2021 composer-portrait album, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood (Pentatone) was nominated for a GRAMMY Award, and her opera Jacqueline, with libretto by Royce Vavrek, about legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré was hailed as an “extraordinary piece, one that deserves an unquestioned place in the 21st-century canon” (The Globe and Mail). The 2020 premiere garnered five nominations and a win in Toronto’s prestigious Dora Awards.

Woolf mentors new opera creators in her work with Montreal’s Musique 3 Femmes. She is co-founder of Oxingale, a ground-breaking record label and music publisher, supporting new music by extraordinary composers.

A dual Canadian-American citizen, Woolf was born Western Massachusetts and lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Teachers in Playwriting