About Us Eric Fraad – Co-founder and President Eric has been active in theater and music his entire life. While still in junior high school he formed a comedy and theater producing team with Roy Firestone, which gained great notoriety amongst 13 and 14 year olds in Miami Beach, Florida. Though all downhill from there subsequent creative attempts include founding and leading Opera at the Academy, New York's most innovative and celebrated opera producing organization of the 1980's and early 1990's; co-founding Millennial Arts Productions with Paula Heil Fisher and acting as the company's artistic director and stage director for Pulcinella, Esther and Messiah ; serving as chief executive officer and artistic director of The Ark in Dublin, Europe's first and most celebrated cultural centre for children. Eric has worked at festivals, theater and opera company's in Europe and America including Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Tage Alter Muzik Regensburg, Festival d'Automne (Geneva), English National Opera, Opera North (Leeds), The Old Vic, Opéra National Belgique, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Saint Louis Opera Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, Central City Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Theatre, Los Angeles Opera Theatre, Hidden Valley Opera Ensemble (Carmel, CA.), Soho Rep, etc. To create further ambiguity he holds an MBA from Columbia Business School with a major in corporate finance. Presently Eric lives in Dublin Ireland with his wife, the singer, Caitríona O'Leary, and their two boys Davy and Zack.