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DIRECTING (Professional)

THE CRYPTOGRAM/THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD-West coast premiere, Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles

GROSS INDECENCY Huntington Theatre Company

DINNER WITH FRIENDS premiere, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Missouri Repertory Theatre

MAJOR BARBARA Missouri Repertory Theatre

SPRING STORM- Tennessee Williams, World premiere, Actors Repertory of Texas

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION Huntington Theatre Company

SIGHT UNSEEN- Margulies- premiere, Manhattan Theatre Club
Orpheum Theatre
South Coast Rep
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles (with John Rubenstein)
Drama Desk Nominee
Dramalogue Award, South Coast Rep

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH Williamstown Theatre Festival, (with Maxwell Caulfield, Maria Tucci)

NORA- Ibsen/Bergman, Williamstown Theatre Festival, (with Michael York and Linda Purl)

THE GUARDSMAN Williamstown Theatre.Festival, (with Cristopher Reeve)

THE DAY ROOM- DeLillo- premiere, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge Sundance Theatre Institute

ROAD TO NIRVANA -Kopit, American Repertory Theatre

THE WRITING GAME- David Lodge, American Repertory Theatre

THE GLASS MENAGERIE Geki Shobo Inc., Tokyo

THE MIRACLE WORKER Aoyama Theatre, Tokyo

WIT State Theatre Company, Austin

TAKING STEPS Alley Theatre, Houston

PRIVATE LIVES Cleveland Playhouse

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN Berkeley Repertory Theatre

LET'S PLAY TWO -Clarvoe- premiere, South Coast Repertory

THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE -Baitz, Seattle Repertory Theatre

FORGIVING TYPHOID MARY Long Wharf Theatre

THE GOOD COACH -Siegler, WPA Theatre, New York

YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL Dramatists Guild

THE IMMIGRANT Alliance Theatre Company

NEVER IN MY LIFETIME- S. Gee, Hartman Theatre Company

SOULFUL SCREAM OF A CHOSEN SON- Eisenberg, premiere, Philadelphia Festival Theatre

SPLIT DECISION- Heelan, Philadelphia Festival Theatre

THE RACKET Soho Rep, NYC

FANSHEN -David Hare, American premiere, Soho Rep

MEDAL OF HONOR RAG Los Angeles Actors Theatre

THE LOWER DEPTHS Spectrum Theatre, NYC

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AWARDS
Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Direction, Gross Indecency.

Bay Area Critics Nomination, Best Production, A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director, Sight Unseen.

Let's Play Two, Dramalogue Award.

Sight Unseen, Dramalogue Award.

Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington University.

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WRITINGS

Thinking Like A Director, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001

Adaptations

Artists and Admirers- Ostrovsky
The Birthmark- Hawthorne (Villager Award)

Articles

New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure
"Theatrical Casting Can Be High Drama," 5/7/89
"Playwrights Tread the Hollywood Welcome Mat," 9/24/89

New York Times Book Review
No Tricks in my Pocket; Paul Newman Directs by Stewart Stern

Reviews of five novels

Theater Week
London Correspondent, 1990

Plays Magazine
New York Critic, 1985-86

American Theatre Magazine
"Pictures at a Deconstruction," 2/99
"The Man to Whom Theatre Really Mattered," 8/98
"Father and Followers," review of Conjunctions, 2/96
"A Kinder, Gentler David Hare," Cover Story 11/89
"Intimacies and Enigmas," a review of The Orton Diaries, 9/87
"The Post-Play Discussion Fallacy," 12/88
"More Than Zero," a review of Zero Mostel by Jared Brown
"International Flavors," essay on Caryl Churchill, 11/90

Saturday Review
"Endcircus," 5/85
"Going Through Stages," 6/86, cover story

AMERICAN DREAMS; The Imagination of Sam Shepard
PAJ Publications, 1981. "Visions of the End: The Early Plays"

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TEACHING

1998-- present- University of Texas at Austin
_____________Professor
_____________Head of Directing

_____________Acting: Graduate and UndergraduateGraduate
_____________Directing: Modern Drama, Directing Theory

1996-98-_____Head of Acting and Directing

1990-95- UCLA. Los Angeles. CA
________Professor of Theatre
________Graduate Directing: Scene Study and Supervision of Directing ________Projects; Graduate Seminar in Modern British Theatre
________Undergraduate: Fundamentals of Directing; Intro. to Theatre

1989- Harvard University
_____Visiting Lecturer
_____Modern British Drama

1989- Institute for Advanced Training (ART-Harvard)
_____Dramaturgy

1985-1988- New York University
__________Lecturer
__________Modern British Drama
__________Directed THE STRONGBOX and DOMINO COURTS
__________Graduate: Directed Shaw's FANNY'S FIRST PLAY

1980-87-Great Lakes Colleges
_______Association Associate Professor

_______Supervised placement of theatre interns
_______Lectured in Contemporary Theatre

1978-Williamstown Theatre Festival
_____Acting: Scene Study

1976-78-Scripps College, Claremont. CA
________Department Chair;
________Assistant Professor

________History of Theatre
________Introduction to Directing
________Advanced Acting

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  FILM
Trouble Times Two- Wrote and Directed short film.

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  RADIO DRAMA
The Writing Game- David Lodge- KCRW, Los Angeles, 1994.
Questa- KCRW, Los Angeles, 1993.

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  STAGED READINGS
Over 50 Staged Readings at Manhattan Theatre Club, ART, Hartman Theatre Company, and New Dramatists.

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ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder Actors Repertory of Texas, 1999

Head of Directing- University of Texas, 1996-present

Head of Acting/Directing University of Texas, 1996-98

Associate Director American Repertory Theatre, 1990
Programming; Artistic and literary management; Staff Supervisor

Associate Artistic Director Hartman Theatre Co. 1985-86
Resident Director; Programming

Literary Associate Manhattan Theatre Club; 1981-85
Literary management; Co-founder Playwrights Unit; Workshop Director

Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers
Los Angeles Advisory Council--1995-96
Regional planning; event coordination
INS--Immigration Committee--1997--present

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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Stanford University-Directing/Dramatic Literature

B.A. George Washington University, Theatre

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  RECENT LECTURES/PAPERS
Talk on British Drama--HRC Conference--Shouting in The Evening.
"Training the Actor," Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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