Cara is a co-founder of Hup! Productions, her film production company.

As a teacher and guest director, Cara has taught at The Boston University Opera Institute and directed productions for Loyola University at New Orleans, UC San Diego, and The Hartt School of Music. Other credits include engagements with Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Opera, Tulsa Opera, American Opera Projects, and Opera Carolina, Tri-Cities Opera and Opera Saratoga. Other stage directing highlights include productions of Philip Glass' Hydrogen Jukebox at Chautauqua Opera, An American Dream at Anchorage Opera, The Threepenny Opera for Syracuse Opera and The Elixir of Love for Piedmont Opera.

In January of 2021, Cara directed and edited Bernadette’s Cozy Book Nook a world premiere opera film for Fort Worth Opera. In the Spring of 2021, she directed the chamber opera season at Grand Rapids Opera, which included Penny, an opera film, and Second Nature. Other recent directing credits include Il Trovatore for Opera in the Heights, Scalia/Ginsburg for Chautauqua Opera and the world premiere of Our Trudy for the Ad Astra Music Festival. In 2022, Cara directed the world premiere of I Give You my Home for Guerilla Opera, Glory Denied for Opera Naples and The Sound of Music for Charlottesville Opera. Cara Consilvio is a director and producer of opera, theater, and film with extensive experience in dance and choreography whose inventive, kinetic, and evocative productions are in great demand.

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