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Biography
Josh Uabanbury is a singer and librettist working in opera and jazz. He was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and graduated from The New School in 2020. Since then he has sung at venues including Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center and National Sawdust.
He is currently a fellow with The American Lyric Theatre in New York City, and served as the first Julius Eastman Fellow at Looking Glass Arts in the summer of 2025.
His libretti have been presented by Washington National Opera, The American Lyric Theater, The Kennedy Center, Fort Worth Opera, The National Symphony Orchestra, and The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts.
Reviews & Features
In 2025, his ten-minute opera The Burning Bush, composed by Jasmine Barnes, premiered at Washington National Opera and was described by The Washington Post as "surrealist, clever, and precisely imagined."
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