About

Ruby Aiyo Gerber (b. Brooklyn, NY) a graduate of Brown University with a focus on Africana studies, is a versatile artist combining her talents as a poet, nonfiction writer, and librettist. Her creative mission explores Black temporality and disrupts traditional storytelling norms, decolonizing language and challenging established narratives to offer fresh perspectives on the Black experience. Ruby Aiyo has received commissions from the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and participated in Carrie Mae Weems's Varying Shades of Brown convening. She completed a residency at OperaFusion with Cincinnati Opera.
Ruby Aiyo’s upcoming works include This House, an opera by Lynn Nottage, Ruby Aiyo Gerber, and Ricky Ian Gordon, premiering at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in May 2024, and In the Rush, with a workshop at Indiana University in January 2025 and a production planned at the Metropolitan Opera in 2027. Ruby Aiyo is currently pursuing her MFA in writing at Bard College.
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