Directing News & Events

Directing student Tanasia Lewis staged her energetic take on Fabulation, the wickedly warm, wide-ranging satire written by Associate Professor of Theater Lynn Nottage, this past February as her thesis.

Directing alumna Tara Ahmadinejad ’14 directs Lunch Bunch, co-produced by The Play Company (“PlayCo”) and Clubbed Thumb, at 122CC.

Directing alumnus Carl Cofield ’14 directs The XIXth at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California.

We talked about merging disciplines, finding one’s creative voice, and devising work with Directing student Kevin Carillo. 

Professor Anne Bogart will direct Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs. The brand new production, which will be presented March 22–26, 2023 at The Terminal at Flynn Cruiseport Boston, blends Bela Bartók’s 1918 opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, with Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler’s Four Songs (Vier Lieder) from 1915.

Directing alumna Rachel Chavkin ’08 is set to direct the upcoming Broadway production of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, with Directing student Tiffani Swalley as Assistant Director.

Directing student Liz Peterson has been awarded one of University Life’s Social Justice Mini-Grants for 2022-2023.

Tiffani Swalley presents Medea for The School of the Arts's fifth directing thesis production this year. The timeless play meditates on taking fate into one's own hands and asks how far one would go to take back one's life. In our interview, Tiffani describes her inspiration for the production, and why this version of a 2,000 year old story is relatable to a modern audience.

This year’s Joe A. Callaway Award for directing has been awarded to alumnus Saheem Ali ’07 for his work on James Ijames’ Fat Ham. 

We talked about the adaptation of classical theatre texts and the importance of community engagement with Directing alumnus and Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Carl Cofield ’14.

Directing alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 has several upcoming world premieres and productions for his two new plays, American Fast and A Distinct Society, scheduled for 2023. 

Directing alumnus Saheem Ali ’07 will make his Broadway directorial debut in James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fat Ham, at American Airlines Theatre this spring.