Ronald Chase (born December 29, 1934) is an American artist, photographer, educator, independent film maker and opera designer.
These experiments produced The Covenant, a dance film made with Elizabeth Harris and the composer Pauline Oliveros, followed by dramatic shorts including Chameleon and Clown, which was featured at the 1969 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Parade, a short documentary of the first Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade in San Francisco.
Chase produced film and projections with Pearlman for the world premiere of The Who's Tommy at the Seattle Opera in 1971.
Due to injuries Corsaro suffered during a car crash, Gerald Freedman replaced him in collaborating with Chase on a production of Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci that opened the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on September 10, 1971.
[7] Chase produced his first animated films for theater in collaboration with Maurice Sendak for Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges at Glyndebourne in 1987.
The program developed out of Saturday gallery walks for students of San Francisco School of the Arts High School to include weekly film screenings, a film workshop, and free tickets to cultural events, available to all San Francisco Bay Area students.