BIOGRAPHY

 

Cara Reichel is an NYC-based theatrical director, writer, and educator.  She is the Producing Artistic Director of Prospect Musicals, which she co-founded in 1998, and is a leader in the field of new musical theater development.

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With collaborator Peter Mills, she has co-created over a dozen original musicals, including The Hello Girls, The Underclassman (aka The Pursuit of Persephone), Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, Honor, The Flood, Illyria, and The Taxi Cabaret. Works-in-process include The Troupe, Declaration, and The Mystery of the Somerton Man.  

 

As a theater educator, Cara has taught for Princeton University's Global Seminar Program (2021-2026) in Italy, and at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts Atelier Program (2017, 2024). With Peter Mills she founded a summer arts program in the community of Gesualdo, in Southern Italy, called Nuova Musica.

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Cara was educated at Princeton and in the M.F.A. Program for Directing at Brooklyn College, where she was named 2006 Alumna of the Year. She is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, and a Trustee of the Princeton Triangle Club.

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