Directing News & Events

Alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Manoel Felciano were part of a four-member cohort for the 2022 Classical Directing Fellowship, a program of the Karen and Stuart Tanz Fellowships at The Old Globe in San Diego, California. 

Adjunct Professor Robert O’Hara ’96 will direct Richard III for The Public Theatre’s free Shakespeare in the Park series this upcoming summer in New York City.

Columbia Directing alumnus Keenan Tyler Oliphant ’20 will direct Ebru Nihan Celkan’s play, Will You Come With Me? 

Jacob Sexton directs Indian Summer by Gregory S. Moss. Below is an interview with Sexton about philosophies on directing, new work, and a glimpse at his own perspective on Indian Summer. 

Alumna Rebecca Miller Kratzer ’22 will direct Rage by Playwriting student ’22 Greg T. Nanni as a part of Emerson College’s Newfest New Plays Workshop.

Alumnus Jonathan Seinen ’20 directs and produces Ho Ka Kei’s Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) at Theatre Passe Muraille, in Toronto, Ontario. 

Current student Phoebe Brooks finds joy and spectacle through good-natured comedy in her thesis production, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet.

Recent Directing alumnus Colm Summers ’21 is the assistant director for Wednesday by Raja Feather Kelly and his company, the feath3r theory. 

Directing alum Benita de Wit ’16 just joined the Broadway production of Six: The Musical as the Resident Director. 

Theatre student Rebecca Miller Kratzer is directing Mae West’s The Drag at Fordham University. The show runs from November 10 through 20. 

Theatre Directing alumnus Adam Marple '10 is directing Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at The American University in Cairo, Egypt where he is Assistant Professor of Directing.

For her thesis production, student Rebecca Miller Kratzer directs the thrilling new opera The Trojan Women.