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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.
For the second directing thesis production presented at Lenfest this fall, Jorge Schultz presents Asphyxia, a poetic psychological thriller that follows a detective receiving inpatient treatment after the serial killer murdered his partner and takes the heart away.
Directing alumnus Michel Hausmann ’14 and Miami New Drama were presented the 2022 Thornton Wilder Prize on November 14, 2022 at New York City’s American Academy of Arts and Letters.
For the first directing thesis production presented at Lenfest this fall, Elena Vannoni presents The Sea Does Not Reach Naples, a play based on Anna Maria Ortese's 1953 collection Il mare non bagna Napoli, a lively representation of everyday life in post-WWII Naples, Italy. We sat down with director, Elena Vannoni, to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production.
Theatre alumni Benita de Wit ’16, Alison R. Simone ’19, and Robbie Armstrong ’22 work on Straight Line Crazy, currently running at The Shed.