Résumé

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other credits

Negotiating committees for ANTC, off-Broadway, COST and LORT contracts 1999-present

• Served as co-chair and committee member on numerous contract negotiation committees at SSDC.

Master classes for undergraduate and graduate students, also incarcerated men within the New York State prison system 1995-present

• Have taught Shakespeare, audition technique/process, working in the theatre master classes at UCONN, UMKC, Univ of Utah, Otterbein College, Trinity College and NYU/Tisch Dramatic Writing Program as part of guest artist residencies.
• Currently teach, direct and facilitate with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in New York State

Co-producer and Director, Fräulein Else 2003 and 2006

• Co-produced both the Edinburgh Festival and off-off-Broadway incarnations of this project with performer Amy de Lucia; dramaturged the original script development process, created a budget, booked venues, coordinated PR and marketing, selected and contracted design teams and production staff.

Associate Director to John Caird, Humble Boy 2003

• Following the enormously successful West End run of Charlotte Jones’ Humble Boy, John Caird asked me to serve as his Associate Director on the Manhattan Theatre Club production of the play. He anticipated handing the play off to me as a runner does a baton: “if you write a masterpiece, you take it to the publisher and you’re done, but if you direct a masterpiece, they expect you to keep directing it again and again. I don’t have anything new to say about this play; you’ll have to do it.”
• I went on to direct the Royal National Theatre’s UK tour, featuring Hayley Mills and Bridget Forsythe. John gave me enormous latitude to direct my own production, rather than faithfully but mechanically reproducing his work. The tour played to 99% capacity throughout the UK and made a handsome profit.

SDC Foundation Observership 2000

• Observed / assisted on Barry Edelstein’s Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Delacorte Theatre.

Directing Assistant, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ 1998-99

• Assistant director to eight different directors — including Emily Mann, David Leveaux, Stephen Wadsworth, Brian Kulick and Blanka Zizka – on ten productions during my time at the Tony Award-winning McCarter.
• David Leveaux’s Electra, starring Zoë Wanamaker, Claire Bloom and Michael Cumpsty, transferred to Broadway; I cast and rehearsed the understudies for the New York production. We received three Tony nominations, recouped the producers’ investment and earned a profit playing Greek tragedy on Broadway.

Producer & Founding Artistic Director, Some Other Shakespeare (S.O.S.) in the Park 1996-1999

• Founded Some Other Shakespeare in the Park with two actor collaborators. Drafted a budget, spearheaded fundraising, negotiated with the NYC Dep’t of Parks and local Community Boards to secure the required permits for productions in Bryant Park and Madison Square Park, directed productions, coordinated publicity, co-designed the productions with costumer David Zyla, shopped for clothing & props, made the curtain speeches and carted the weapons on the NYC subway system.

Drama League Directing Fellow, Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY 1992

• Assistant director to Erika Gould on her mainstage production of The Miracle Worker; directed two projects on the North Stage, including Alan Bowne’s Beirut.

education

Certificate in Arts Administration, NYU, New York, NY 2009

• Coursework in fundraising, grant writing, financial management, marketing, social media for non-profits, not-for-profit ethics and management

Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom − Shakespeare 2001-2002 M.A. with Distinction in Shakespeare, Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon, Univ. of Birmingham, UK 2002

• Thesis: Twinned Lands: Cultural Imperialism, Cultural Anxiety and the 2002 RSC and OSF Productions of The
  Winter’s Tale
• Studied with John Jowett, Pamela Mason, Russell Jackson

B.A. with Honors in Theatre & Dance, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1992

• Thesis: Voices in the Struggle: Lady Gregory and Anne Devlin as Writers of Political Theatre

Department of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987-89

• B.F.A. student in Directing. Transferred to Trinity College after two years.

Chautauqua Institution, Theatre Studio II, Chautauqua, NY 1986

• Studied with Michael Kahn, Rebecca Guy, Deborah Hecht, Nels Hennum