Directing News & Events

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.

Steven Chaikelson, Professor of Professional Practice and Head of Theatre Management & Producing, produces the Broadway comeback of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, considered one of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century.

Directing student Chaesong Kim will perform in Lazarus 1972-2022 with Ping Chong and Company at La MaMa from September 29–October 16. The production is a reimagining of Ping Chong’s 1972 Lazarus, which was the first work he created as an independent artist.

Theatre alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Katherine Wilkinson ’19 is the director of the world premiere of Bloom Bloom Pow, a queer climate-doom comedy play.

Alumni Jocelyn Bioh ’08 and Saheem Ali ’07 wrote and will direct, respectively, the new musical Goddess, set to have its world premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on August 13, 2022.

A new play co-written by alumna Inés Braun ’17 has been selected for the 2022 edition of the Global Forms Theater Festival at Manhattan’s Rattlestick Theater. 

School of the Arts alumni Josh Koenigsburg '09 and Tyne Rafaeli ’14 will be contributing to The Geffen Playhouse's 2022/2023 season.  

Directing alumnus Marc Atkinson Borrull ’16 will direct the Irish premiere of Nick Payne’s Constellations at Dublin’s historic Gate Theatre. 

You might say that the show really begins with the ushers encouraging people to go to the bathroom and get water because the only intermission is around hour seven. Audiences are handed programs which indicate that the performance they’re about to see is Richard Wagner’s entire fifteen-hour, four-opera Ring Cycle.