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Melissa Starker

Photo portrait of author Melissa Starker

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Melissa Starker

Selected storytelling

Actors in colorful costumes stand in front of a black background. They are loosely styled after fishermen, but in a way that's far more fun.

Bold new opera reimagines ‘Old Man and the Sea’

The Wex is teaming with Opera Columbus to bring an immersive adaptation of the Hemingway classic to campus in October.

Gaëtane Verna, a Black woman with her braided hair pulled back in a bun, is shown from the shoulders up, smiling as she seems to make eye contact with the viewer outside of the Wexner Center for the Arts. She wears thick-rimmed glasses and big transparent earrings, adding to her confident, artsy presence.

New director of the Wex: ‘Very fulfilling so far’

Gaëtane Verna finds meaning, opportunities and endless fascination at Ohio State and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

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