Dashiell John Waterbury has two decades of professional experience in opera, drama, and musical theater. He has worked throughout the United States and internationally, and teaches both privately and at the University level.

A tenor with a warm spinto tone and thrilling expressive power, Dash has performed in both opera and musical theater, in roles as diverse as the Rake in The Rake’s Progress, Beppe in I Pagliacci, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, the title role in Yeston’s Phantom, Rodolfo in La Boheme and several roles in the Mozart canon, including Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Gomatz in Zaide, and Basilio/Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro.

Dash holds an MM in Voice Performance from the top-ranked Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in addition to a second graduate degree in directing from Florida State University. He has served as the opera director at Baylor University and is currently Head of Opera at Stetson University, where he teaches voice and directs productions.