Abrams Artists Agency
275 Seventh Ave, 26th Floor, New York, NY  10001
Phone (646) 486-4600                                        Fax (646) 486-2358

Agent: Kate Navin

 

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NEW YORK

PENELOPE by Ellen McLaughlin Gallatin/Princeton
THE HARASSMENT OF IRIS MALLOY by Zak Berkman
     (workshop with David Strathairn and Maggie Siff)
EPIC Theatre Ensemble
COULDN’T SAY by Christopher Wall  *                         Midtown International Theatre Festival
MORGAN STREET by Jeremy Richards, Anika Noni Rose
 and Eugene Gwodz (musical workshop)
Studio Tisch
DENALI by Austin Bunn (workshop) Orchard Project (with Epic Theatre Ensemble)
ADA by Kim Sherman & Margaret Vandenburg (opera workshop) Ensemble Studio Theatre
NOWHERE IN AMERICA by Bathsheba Doran                  Keen Company/Keen Teens – Kirk Theatre
LIKE LOVE by Lewis Flinn & Barry Kaplan NYMF – The Barrow Group Theatre
365 DAYS/ 365 PLAYS by Suzan-Lori Parks The Women’s Project
365 DAYS/ 365 PLAYS by Susan-Lori Parks Epic Theatre Center
SPLIT WIDE OPEN by Christina Gorman Summer Play Festival (produced by Arielle Tepper)

LIKE A COW OR AN ELEPHANT by Kara Corthron

Voice and Vision Workshop

1 PLUM SQUARE by Amy Kohn (Radio Opera)

WNYC, "Spinning on Air"

ANATOMY 1968 by Karen Hartman (premiere)

Summer Play Festival (produced by Arielle Tepper)

CLOSET WIDE OPE' by Shawn Sturnick

Creative Place Theater, NYC

MERMAID by Ellen McLaughlin (premiere)

Blue Heron Arts Center & 59 E 59th

JAZZ DESERT by Rebecca Hart (musical)

Culture Project, NYC

SCATTERHEAD by Elizabeth Anderson

Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC

WEEPING WOMAN by Amy Wheeler

Drama League (New Directors/New Works)

THE CASUAL SPIES

HERE, NYC

GHETTO PUNCH by Anthony Sparks

Dixon Place, NYC

RESURRECTION by Anita Dashiell

A-1 Collaborators, NYC

WHY WE HAVE A BODY by Claire Chaffee

New York University

TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell

New York University


* winner of Best Director Award

 

REGIONAL

INTERPRETING WILLIAM by James Still Indiana Repertory Theatre
LOOKING FOR THE PONY by Andrea Lepcio              Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta, GA
EYEPIECE Written and Performed by Rinde Eckert Iowa City, IA
PENELOPE by Ellen McLaughlin (commission) The Getty Villa, CA
AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O’Neill Chautauqua Theatre
TIMBERLAND by Austin Bunn (Workshop) New Harmony Project, Indiana
TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare Seaside Shakespeare (Nantucket)
LIKENESS by David Caudle (workshop) The New Harmony Project
LIKE A COW OR AN ELEPHANT by Kara Corthron Voice & Vision Workshop   

AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare

Milwaukee Shakespeare Company

STOP KISS by Diana Son

Riverside Theatre, Iowa City, IA

FILM/TELEVISION

SIX DEGREES (ABC) Shadow Director (Tucker Gates)

CONTEMPLATING EMILY by Sarah Shively

Independent Short
*(Chosen for LA Outfest 2006)

WITHIN A PLAY (directed by Mark Ring) Documentary Film

 EDUCATIONAL

HOT L BALTIMORE by Lanford Wilson NYU Graduate Acting Program
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY  by Brian Friel Marymount Manhattan College
THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov Yale School of Drama

STOP KISS by Diana Son

NYU Graduate Acting Program

AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O'Neill

NYU Graduate Acting Program

BALM IN GILEAD by Lanford Wilson

Yale School of Drama

MACHINAL by Sophie Treadwell

Bard College

ALOHA SAY THE PRETTY GIRLS by Naomi Iizuka

University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill

NYU Graduate Acting Program

FEN by Caryl Churchill

Stella Adler Conservatory

TOP GIRLS

The Actors Center, NYC

ESCAPE FROM HAPPINESS by George Walker

Stella Adler Conservatory

BETWEEN DAYLIGHT and BOONVILLE by Matt Williams

Stella Adler Studios (NYU)

GUM by Karen Hartman

NYU Graduate Acting Program

DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE by Heather Macdonald

Stella Adler Studios (NYU)

AGNES OF GOD by John Pielmeier

Stella Adler Conservatory

THE MAIDS by Jean Genet

Stella Adler Conservatory

BUS STOP by William Inge

The Actors Center, NYC

BIG LOVE by Charles Mee

Willamette University

TOP GIRLS

Stella Adler Studios (NYU)

FLIGHT 243 (musical workshop)

NYU MFA Musical Theater Writing Program

CLOUD NINE by Caryl Churchill

Long Island University, CW Post

THE GLORY OF LIVING by Rebecca Gilman

Cornell College

LOVE ACCORDING to LUC (musical workshop)

NYU MFA Musical Theatre Writing Program

JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare

University of Evansville, IN

DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel

Long Island University, CW Post , NY

AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O'Neill

University of Evansville, IN

THE BIG ONE (musical workshop)

NYU MFA Musical Theatre Writing Program

FRAMING ELEANOR (musical wkshp)

NYU MFA Musical Theater Writing Program

1 PLUM SQUARE (musical wkshp)

NYU MFA Musical Theater Writing Program

RELATED EXPERIENCE

THE PERSIANS (adap. by Ellen McLaughlin
(with Len Cariou, Roberta Maxwell)

National Actors Theater
Directed by Ethan McSweeny

Associate Director/Dramaturg

HELEN by Ellen McLaughlin
(with Donna Murphy, Denis O’Hare, Phylicia Rashad, Marian Seldes)

The Public Theater
Directed by Tony Kushner

Assistant to Playwright

TONGUE OF A BIRD by Ellen McLaughlin
(with Cherry Jones, Sharon Lawrence

The Public Theater
Directed by Lisa Petersen

Assistant to Playwright

HANNAH and MARTIN by Kate Fodor
(with David Strathairn)

Epic Theatre Center

Associate Producer

LYSISTRATA (adap. Ellen McLaughlin)       
(with Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedwick,
David Strathairn, Mercedes Reuhl,
F. Murray Abraham, Kathleen Chalfant)

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Co-Director of Reading

LYSISTRATA (adap. by Ellen McLaughlin)

Chautauqua Theatre

Director of Reading

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW
(Children of AHope Orphanage)
National Theatre of Ethiopia
Director/Producer

NOCTURNAL COMMISSIONS   New Dramatists Fundraiser Director

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov

Arena Stage

Zelda Fichandler

HARD TIMES by Charles Dickens

Pearl Theatre Company, NYC

Lou Jacob

HYDRIOTAPHIA by Tony Kushner

New York University

Michael Wilson

ROMANTIC ROULETTE by Marivaux

New York University

Larry Maslon

TRANSLATIONS by Brian Friel

Chautauqua Theatre, NY

Rob Bundy

EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Graduate Directing Lab

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Graduate Acting Program (MFA Acting)

UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE

Undergraduate (BFA Theatre)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  EST/Sloan Foundation Grant  – Conceived of opera with composer Kim Sherman & librettist Margaret Vandenburg
Company Member of Obie Award Winning Epic Theatre Center

 

Member of Women's Project Director's Lab

 

Drama League Fellow New Directors/New Works

 

Fox Fellow Grant Recipient for Study (The Actors Center)

 

3 Year Full Tuition Scholarship (New York University Graduate Acting Program)

 

1 Year Full Tuition Scholarship (New York University Graduate Directing Lab)


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