Brian von Rueden has regularly directed a wide range of opera, musical, and classical theatre works over the last decade. At the age of 17, he staged Richard Wilbur's translation of Molière's classic comedy Amphitryon. He subsequently directed a cast of eight to thirteen year-olds in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for Valparaiso University's Young Actors Shakespeare Workshop. He has studied directing at with John Steven Paul and Michael Ehrman, and worked closely with Talmage Fauntleroy as a part of Studio Lirico in Italy. Brian directed and choreographed A...My Name is Alice, and staged the musicals The Fantasticks, Godspell, Putting it Together, and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown for Three-Sided Players in Chicago. In addition, he directed performances of the rarely seen operas A Childhood Miracle by Ned Rorem and The Scarf by Lee Hoiby at Roosevelt University. As the former Director of Opera for Millennium Chamber Players, he staged well-received performances of Holst's The Wandering Scholar, Walton's The Bear, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Cimarosa's L'infedeltà fedele, and Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.