DIRECTOR – SDC
Representation: Paradigm Talent Agency
Allison Schwartz | 212.897.6400 | aschwartz@paradigmagency.com
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE selected credits (** world premiere, * regional premiere)
| THE 5th AVENUE THEATRE (Seattle, WA) Shrek: The Musical, music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Dec 2020) SOUTH COAST REPERTORY (Costa Mesa, CA) PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATRE (Pittsburgh, PA) OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Ashland, OR) SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE (Seattle, WA) STUDIO THEATRE (Washington DC) PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY (Chapel Hill, NC) SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Seattle, WA) HERITAGE THEATRE FESTIVAL (Charlotteville, VA) AZEOTROPE (Seattle, WA) CROWDED FIRE THEATRE COMPANY (San Francisco, CA) GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS (San Francisco, CA) WASHINGTON ENSEMBLE THEATRE (Seattle, WA) |
ALLEY THEATRE (Costa Mesa, CA) Vietgone by Qui Nguyen* GUTHRIE THEATER (Minneapolis, MN) CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER (Berkeley, CA) PEOPLE’S LIGHT (Malvern, PA) BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE (Baltimore, MD) LONG WHARF THEATRE (New Haven, CT) AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER (Staunton, VA) ACT THEATRE (Seattle, WA) SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE (Seattle, WA) INTIMAN THEATRE (Seattle, WA) BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE (Seattle, WA) SEATTLE PUBLIC THEATRE (Seattle, WA) AURORA THEATRE COMPANY (Berkeley, CA) SHOTGUN PLAYERS (Berkeley, CA) IMPACT THEATRE (Berkeley, CA) |
Additional Credits: THEATREWORKS Young Playwrights Project (Palo Alto, CA); DRAMA LEAGUE DIRECTORFEST (New York, NY), INTIMAN THEATRE Living History School Tour (Seattle, WA); SAN FRANCISCO ONE MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (San Francisco, CA)
Assistant Directing: OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Ashland, OR); PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY (Chapel Hill, NC); RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE (New York, NY); ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY (Tucson, AZ); ACT THEATRE (Seattle, WA)
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT selected credits
| VILLAGE THEATRE (Issaquah, WA) Eastbound, book and music by Cheeyang Ng, book and lyrics by Khiyon Hursey PLAYPENN (Philadelphia, PA) PLAYWRIGHTS REALM INK’D FESTIVAL (New York, NY) KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE (Kansas City, MO) ACT THEATRE CONSTRUCTION ZONE (Seattle, WA) GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS (San Francisco, CA) ETHNIC CULTURAL THEATRE (Seattle, WA) |
THEATRE LATTE DA (Minneapolis, MN) Half The Sky, music by Tidtaya Sinutoke, book and lyrics by Isabella Dawis PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE, co-production with CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY (New York, NY) PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION (San Francisco, CA) MAGIC THEATRE (San Francisco, CA) PROFILE THEATRE (Portland, OR) |
Additional Credits: Dramaturg, HEDGEBROOK WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL (Seattle, WA); Dramaturg, Antony and Cleopatra, PLAY ON! Oregon Shakespeare Festival; OSF Midnight Projects and OSF Presents (Ashland, OR); Playground SF (San Francisco, CA); Z SPACE STUDIO (San Francisco, CA); ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY New Works (San Francisco, CA)
Selection Committee / Reader: PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION (San Francisco, CA); PLAYWRIGHTS CENTER Jerome Fellowship (Minneapolis, MN); AURORA THEATRE Global Age Project (Berkeley, CA); GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS ReOrient Festival (San Francisco, CA); THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM Writing Fellows Program (New York, NY); PLAYGROUND SF (San Francisco, CA)
UNIVERSITY / EDUCATIONAL DIRECTING selected credits (** world premiere, * regional premiere)
CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (Seattle, WA)
It Can’t Happen Here by Tony Taccone and Bennett Cohen, adapted from the novel by Sinclair Lewis; Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka; She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen*; Summertime by Charles Mee*; The Thugs by Adam Bock*; Women of Trachis by Sophocles, adaptation by Kate Ryan*
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, WA)
People Sitting in Darkness by Clarance Coo (workshop); The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard; Big Love by Charles L. Mee (MFA Thesis); Gibraltar by Octavio Solis*; Hunter Gatherers by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb*; Iron Shoes by Desdemona Chiang & Maythinee Washington**; We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan*
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY (Ada, OH)
Proud Son by Shu Matsui, trans. Andy Bragen and Kyoko Yoshida**
AWARDS / AFFILIATIONS selected credits
PRINCESS GRACE AWARD Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor
STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY Executive Board Member
CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Affiliated Adjunct Professor in Theatre
VILCEK PRIZE FOR CREATIVE PROMISE IN THEATRE
STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY FOUNDATION
Sir John Gielgud Directing Fellow, King Lear, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR
Denham Award Finalist, The Hundred Flowers Project by Christopher Chen
Directing Observership: Paradise Lost, Intiman Theatre, Seattle, WA
TRIANGLE LAB ARTIST-INVESTIGATOR (2013) (CAL SHAKES / INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS)
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Young Leader of Color, Leadership U Finalist
DRAMA LEAGUE Director’s Project Fall Directing Fellow
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER DIRECTORS LAB, New York, NY and DIRECTORS LAB WEST, Pasadena, CA
ARTS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
AZEOTROPE, Co-Founder and Resident Director (Seattle, WA) (2010-present)
Lead artist, producer and resident director in one of Seattle’s most-watched theatre companies. Azeotrope’s mission is to produce new and contemporary work about the invisible and marginalized.
IMPACT THEATRE, Associate Artistic Director (Berkeley, CA) (2005-2010)
Develop and maintain relationships with local and national emerging playwrights and agents; Work with Artistic Director and Literary Manager in overseeing script submissions; Direct one show per season; Assist with season planning
PLAYGROUND Resident Director (San Francisco, CA) (2012)
Dramaturgical support for resident playwrights and development of commissions. Direct Monday Night PlayGround evening of short plays
Additional Assistantships: MARK TAPER FORUM New Works Festival Literary (Los Angeles, CA); TWO RIVER THEATER COMPANY Education/Dramatugy (Red Bank, NJ), CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER Artistic Learning (Berkeley, CA)
EDUCATION / TRAINING
MFA Directing: University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
BA Integrative Biology and Dramatic Art: University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)