Mariah Berryman is a soprano based in Cincinnati, Ohio originally from Dearborn, Michigan. She recently completed a professional internship in production management with the Lawrence Opera Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas and received her Masters of Arts Administration in Theater and Production Management at Ohio University in Summer 2024. She also received her M.M. in Voice Performance from Ohio University in Spring 2023. She studies privately with Dr. Hugo Vera, Director of Opera and Vocal Arts at California State University Northridge. Previous stage credits include Hanna in The Path to Heaven, Cendrillon in Cendrillon, Announcer in Gallantry, and Beth in Little Women (Opera).
She has been invited as a guest speaker and soloist to many groups in the Athens, Ohio and Dearborn, Michigan areas, sharing her love of opera with members of the Garden Club of Dearborn, the Berwyn Center of Dearborn Heights, and the Rotary Club of Athens. She cantors regularly at parishes in the Athens, OH, Dayton, OH, and Metro-Detroit areas and sings with the St. Xavier Liturgical Choir in Cincinnati and the Liturgy Choir at Historic St. Mary's Church in Dayton. In August 2024 she presented her masters Capstone-- Things (Can) Fall Apart: The Importance of Documentation and Contingency Planning in a Summer Opera Program-- in which she discussed leading projects such as the implementation of a new ticketing system and managing the program's YouTube channel.
This summer she will be singing once again with Lawrence Opera Theater, this time as Hanna in Adam Gorb's The Path to Heaven, Chorus in both Trial by Jury and Don Giovanni, and covering Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She will also be completing a summer internship as an administrator and assistant stage manager as part of her M.A.A. requirements.
She received her M.A.A. in Theater and Production Management from Ohio University in Summer 2024. She received her M.M. in Voice Performance in 2023 from Ohio University, and her Bachelor's of Music from the University of Dayton in 2021. She can be best contacted via email at mariahberrymansoprano@gmail.com
Cendrillon