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Irish Repertory Theatre

The Sheen Center

HERE Arts Center

Epic Theatre Ensemble

Center for Contemporary Opera

Foundry Theatre/Queens Museum

Lark Play Development Center

New Georges

Ensemble Studio Theatre-First Light Fest

52nd Street Project – Playmaking 2011

Naked Angels

Playwrights Horizons

Belarus Free Theatre @ the Lark

New York Theatre Workshop/Dartmouth

Epic Theatre Ensemble & CSC

Midtown International Theatre Festival

Studio Tisch @ NYU

Keen Company (Teen Keens)

NYMF – The Barrow Group Theatre

The Women’s Project

Epic Theatre Center

Summer Play Festival (SPF)

WNYC, “Spinning on Air”

Summer Play Festival (SPF)

Blue Heron Arts Center/59 e 59th

Creative Place Theatre

Culture Project

Manhattan Theatre Source

Drama League (New Directors/New Works)

Dixon Place

A-1 Collaborators

Studio Tisch, Shubert Theater

Studio Tisch, Paul Walker Theater

Kansas City Repertory Theatre

The Guthrie Theatre

The Cultch Historical Theatre - Vancouver

Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Barrington Stages

Indiana Repertory Theatre

Virginia Repertory Theatre

TheatreWorks/Silicon Valley

Cincinnati Playhouse

The Guthrie Theater

Playmakers Repertory

TheatreWorks

People's Light

Two River Theater

Penumbra Theatre (Minneapolis)

ACT (Seattle)

Chautauqua Theatre Company

People’s Light & Theatre Company

Playmakers Repertory Theatre

Chautauqua Theatre Company

Honolulu Theatre for Youth

Chautauqua Theatre

Playmakers Repertory Theatre

Vermont Stage Company

Indiana Repertory Theater

Synchronicity Theatre (GA)

Gallatin/Princeton

Chautauqua Theatre

New Harmony Project

Seaside Shakespeare New Harmony Project

Voice & Vision Workshop

Milwaukee Shakespeare Company

Riverside Theatre (IA)

Barnard College

NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year

Queens College

NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year

The Juilliard School – 4th year

NYU Graduate Acting Program – 2nd year

Marymount Manhattan College

The Actors Center

NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year

Yale School of Drama – 2nd year

Yale School of Drama – 1st year

Bard College

University of Illinois – Champaign-Urbana

NYU Graduate Acting Program – 2nd year

NYU Graduate Acting Program – 3rd year

The Actors Center

Stella Adler Conservatory

Stella Adler Studios (NYU)

Stella Adler Conservatory

The Actors Center

Stella Adler Conservatory

Stella Adler Studios (NYU)

Willamette University

Long Island University, CW Post

Cornell College

University of Evansville

Long Island University, CW Post

Public School Repertory Company

(Produced by Roundabout & MCC)

NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program

Wild Abandon, written and performed by Leenya Rideout

Hold These Truths

Science Fair (Conceived and performed by Hai-Ting Chinn) Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata

Ada (opera) by Kim Sherman & Margaret Vandenburg

Just Like I Pictured It - ensemble devised with New Immigrant

Community Empowerment (NICE) in Jackson Heights

100 Planes by Lila Rose Kaplan (workshop)

Stepping by Gus Schulenburg (workshop)

Confederates by Suzanne Bradbeer (workshop)

Nectar by Katie Baldwin Eng (workshop)

Ada (workshop)

The Beginning

Bethany by Laura Marks (workshop)

The Courier by Kate Fodor (Benefit)

Thanksgiving Day by Nikolai Khalezin (workshop)

Charonville by Nikolai Khalezin (workshop)

Dawn’s Light by Jeanne Sakata (workshop)

Harrassment of Iris Malloy by Zak Berkman

(workshop with David Straithairn and Maggie Siff)

Couldn’t Say by Christopher Wall

Morgan Street by Jeremy Richards, Eugene Gwodz

and Anika Noni Rose (musical workshop)

Nowhere in America by Bathsheba Doran

Like Love by Lewis Flinn and Barry Kaplan

365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks

Split Wide Open by Christina Gorman

One Plum Square (radio opera) by Amy Kohn

Anatomy 1968 by Karen Hartman

Mermaid by Ellen McLaughlin

Closet Wide Ope’ by Shawn Sturnick

Jazz Desert by Rebecca Hart (musical)

Scatterhead by Elizabeth Anderson

Weeping Woman by Amy Wheeler

Ghetto Punch by Anthony Sparks

Resurrection by Anita Dashiell

Why We Have a Body by Claire Chaffee

Trifles by Susan Glaspell

Fun Home

Steel Magnolias

Hold These Truths

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Hold These Truths

Amber Waves by James Still

In My Chair by Eva DeVirgilis

Hold These Truths

Sooner/Later by Allyson Currin

Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata Detroit '67 by Dominique Morrisseau

Confederates by Suzanne Bradbeer The Harassment of Iris Malloy by Zak Berkman

Ropes by Barbara Colio (translated by Alex Beech)

The Peculiar Patriot by Liza Jessie Peterson Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata Dairyland by Heidi Armbruster Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl Hold These Truths Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Hold These Truths Hold These Truths Penelope by Ellen McLaughlin My Ohio (musical) by Dana Yeaton & Andy Mitton Interpreting William by James Still Looking For the Pony by Andrea Lepcio Penelope by Ellen McLaughlin Penelope Ah, Wilderness! Timberland by Austin Bunn (workshop) Twelfth Night Likeness by David Caudle (workshop) Like a Cow or an Elephant by Kara Corthron As You Like It Stop Kiss by Diana Son

DIRECTING

New York

Colony Collapse by Stefanie Zadravec

A Daughter and Some Sons by Lucy Thurber

The Cherry Orchard Tongue of a Bird by Ellen McLaughlin

End of the Road by Robert Kerr

Hot L Baltimore

A Month in the Country (adap by Brian Friel)

August Snow by Reynolds Price

The Seagull

Stop Kiss

The Seagull

Balm in Gilead

Machinal
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls by Naomi Iizuka

Ah, Wilderness!

Top Girls

Gum by Karen Hartman

Top Girls

Fen

Between Daylight and Boonville

Dream of a Common Language

Agnes of God

Bus Stop

The Maids

Top Girls

Big Love

Cloud Nine

The Glory of Living

Julius Caesar

Ah, Wilderness!

Dancing at Lughnasa

Happy Donut/Mother (PSRC HS Students)

(Produced by Roundabout & MCC)

Flight 243 Love According to Luc

The Big One

Framing Eleanor

1 Plum Square

Educational

Regional

Related Experiences

Director of New Works @ Kansas City Repertory Theatre (February 2019 - present)

Co-Artistic Director of The Actor's Center, NYC (2017- present)

Director of Global Exchange (The Lark) - January 2010 - July 2015)

Programs upon Request

Camp Addis (Ethiopia Summer Camp)

Director & Teacher

WWO/AHope Orphange (National Theatre of Ethiopia)

Director & Teacher

Hannah and Martin (Epic Theatre Center)

Associate Producer

Motel Blues II (Apartment 929 Theatre Company)

Director & Producer

The Persians (National Actors Theatre)

Associate Director

Lysistrata (Chautauqua Theatre Company)

Co-Director for THAW

Lysistrata (BAM)

Co-Director for THAW

Theatres Against War (THAW)

Co-Founder

Helen by Ellen McLaughlin (The Public Theater)

Dir. by Tony Kushner

Playwright Assistant/Dramaturg

Tongue of a Bird by Ellen McLaughlin

(The Public Theater) - Dir. by Lisa Petersen

Playwright Assistant/Dramaturg

*Including extensive Teaching Experience (please contact for CV)

EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MFA - Graduate Acting Program

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Director's Lab

UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE BFA Theatre (Acting)

HONORS & AWARDS

Theatre Bay Area Awards - Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Production & Outstanding Performance for Joel de la Fuente (Hold These Truths @ TheatreWorks)
Stage Directors & Choreographer’s Joe A. Callaway Award Nomination for Best Direction for Hold These Truths
Drama Desk Nomination for Joel de la Fuente for Best Solo Performance of Hold These Truths
EST/Sloan Foundation grant for direction/dramaturgy of new opera Ada, with composer Kim Sherman & librettist Margaret Vandenburg (2007/2008/2010/2013)
Best Director Award for Midtown International Theater Festival for Couldn't Say
Women’s Project Director’s Lab Leader (2006 – 2008)
Women’s Project Director’s Lab (2004-2006)
Past Company Member of Obie Award winning Epic Theatre Center
Drama League Fellow – New Directors/New Works
Fox Fellow Grant Recipient
3 Year Full Tuition Scholarship – New York University Graduate Acting Program
American College Theatre Festival Citation of Excellence for The Glory of Living
American College Theatre Festival Citation of Excellence for Cloud 9

UNIONS & MEMBER AFFILIATIONS

Stage Director's & Choreographer's Union (SDC)
League of Professional Theatre Women (former Co-President)
National Theatre Conference Member
Artistic Advisory Council of Epic Theatre Ensemble
Advisory Board of Detroit Public Theatre
Usual Suspect of New York Theatre Workshop
Artistic Affiliate & Audrey Fellow with New George

Lisa Rothe

Director