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Member of the
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
Representation: Susan Gurman (212) 749-4618
The Susan Gurman Agency, 245 West 99th St., 24th
fl., New York, NY 10025
CAREER INTERESTS:
Directing, Musical Theater Development, Adapting Classic Texts
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2009-2011 Vice
President of Communications for the League of Professional Theatre Women
2007 & 2004 Drama League New Directors / New Works Grant Recipient
2006
Brooklyn College “Theatre Department Alumna of the Year”
One of NYTheatre.com’s “2006 People of the Year”
2006 Innovative Theatre Award Nomination: “Outstanding Director” of
Iron Curtain
2004
Lincoln Center Director’s Lab Member
2002 Lucille Lortel Award* from the League of Professional Theatre Women
(*awarded to an outstanding emerging young professional woman in the
theater.)
2002-03 OOBR Awards for The Taxi Cabaret and DIDO (& Aeneas)
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE (Selected Past, Present, and Upcoming Projects):
NEW
MUSICALS:
I Married Wyatt Earp,
Prospect Theater Company & New York Theatre Barn @ 59E59
Theaters May
2011
A new musical
about the women of the American frontier, by Michele Brourman, Sheilah
Rae, and Thomas Edward West.
Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, Prospect Theater Company @
the Hudson Guild Theatre October
2010
A new
1950's musical comedy, by Susan Dilallo and Stephen Weiner.
Evergreen,
Prospect Theater Company @ the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre, West
Side YMCA Dec. 2009
Co-bookwriter.
A new holiday musical for family audiences, with music and lyrics by
Peter Mills.
Iron
Curtain,
National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals
October
2009
An uproarious comedy set in the 1950’s Golden Age of musical theatre,
and the hey-dey of Communism.
Also directed at the 2008 Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, Musical
Theatre Conference.
Golden
Boy of the Blue Ridge,
Prospect Theater Company @ 59E59
Theaters April 2009
A new bluegrass musical by Peter Mills, based on Synge’s PLAYBOY OF THE
WESTERN WORLD.
The Dome,
Prospect
Theater Company @ the West End Theatre
February 2009
Conceiver, co-director. New site-specific, multimedia music-theater
work for the West End Theatre at the
Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew. Selected and led multiple writing
and directing teams, as well as cast
and designers, bringing together over 30 collaborators to create the
production.
Illyria,
Prospect
Theater Company @ the Hudson Guild Theatre
October 2008
Co-adaptor; based on Shakespeare’s
TWELFTH NIGHT, developed with Peter Mills.
The
Alchemists,
The Village Theatre Festival of New
Works
August 2008
Co-bookwriter; Inspired by the themes and artwork of the English
Romantic period.
Honor,
Prospect
Theater Company @ the Hudson Guild Theatre April
2008
Co-writer with Peter Mills. A new samurai musical based on
Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT.
The
Rockae,
Prospect
Theater Company @ the Hudson Guild Theatre / NYMF Sept.
2007
Co-adaptor. A new hard rock musical by Peter Mills, based on Euripedes’
THE BACCHAE..
The Flood, Chernuchin Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company Oct.
2006
Co-author; based on the 1993 Mississippi River Floods. 2001 Spring
ASCAP workshop.
Sacagawea,
Goodwill Theatre (Binghamton,
NY)
Aug. 2006
Staged reading of a new musical by Craig Bohmler and Mary Bracken
Phillips.
Iron
Curtain,
West End Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company
April 2006
*WINNER: 2006 Innovative Theatre Award, Outstanding Production of a
Musical
The Book
of the Dun Cow,
West End Theatre, Prospect Theater Company
Feb. 2006
Adapted
from Walter Wangerin, Jr.’s National Book Award winning allegorical
novel.
The
Pursuit of Persephone,
Connelly Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company May 2005
A romance based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s autobiographical novel THIS
SIDE OF PARADISE.
The Taxi
Cabaret,
New York Music Theatre
Festival
September 2004
Conceived and created with Peter Mills; recently published by Samuel
French.
A for
Adultery,
PASSAJJ Productions, The Beckett
Theatre
June 2004
Based on THE SCARLET LETTER, presented on Theatre Row.
Lonely
Rhymes,
West End Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company April
2004
A comic song cycle by Peter Mills about contemporary life and love in
NYC.
Hamlet
Sings,
West End Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company October
2003
Seven ten-minute musicals based on HAMLET; presented in staged reading
format.
The
Nightingale,
GMT Productions, Touring
Company
September 2003
Educational touring version of a new children’s musical.
The
White Widow,
PASSAJJ Productions, The Lion
Theatre
June 2003
Based on Mario Fratti’s play MAFIA, presented on Theatre Row.
DIDO (&
Aeneas),
The West End Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company
February 2003
Based on Purcell’s opera, Marlowe’s play, and other texts.
SHAKESPEARE:
Othello,
Kirk Theatre @ Theatre Row, Oberon Theatre Ensemble June
2010
The Merry Wives of Windsor,
staged in Central Park, Prospect Theater
Company July 2004
Julius Caesar,
GMT Productions, Touring Company (Educational Touring
Version) September 2003
CLASSIC MUSICALS:
The Most
Happy Fella,
Gallery
Players
September 2002
STRAIGHT
PLAYS / CLASSIC PLAYS:
The House of Bernarda Alba,
Hunter College’s Loewe Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company January 2004
Danton's Death,
Chernuchin Theatre, Prospect Theater
Company February
2002
NEW
PLAYS:
What's Left, Cherry Lane Theatre, League of Professional Theatre Women’s
New Play
Festival
November 2009
Festival performance of a new,
ten-minute play written by Lee Thuna.
Life Time,
New Dramatists, League of Professional Theatre Women’s Short Play
Festival
November 2003
Reading of a new, ten-minute play written by Carol Hall.
EDUCATION:
Brooklyn
College (C.U.N.Y), M.F.A. Directing Program 2000-01
(classwork finished, thesis pending, GPA: 4.0)
Recipient of the 2000-01 Joel Zwick Directing Fellowship, 2000-01
Arthur Henderson Memorial Scholarship
Completed observership of the Passionsspiele 2000 (Passion Play 2000) in
Oberammergau, Germany
Princeton University,
A.B. Anthropology, Class of 1996, Certificate in the Program in
Theater
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