| The Flea Theater announces new Resident Directors | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:28 pm EDT 09/07/18 | |
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| THE FLEA THEATER ANNOUNCES NEW RESIDENT DIRECTORS The Flea Theater is proud to announce the addition of five new Resident Directors to its intensive practicum for early-career directors. Misha Chowdhury, Yuriy Pavlish, Tyler Thomas, Dina Vovsi and Ran Xia will join the current group of Resident Directors. The Flea is proud to welcome back Anne Cecelia Haney, Kate Moore Heaney, Kimille Howard, Eugene Ma, Marina McClure, David Monteagudo and Michael Raine as they continue to deepen and broaden their independent directorial careers. Says Artistic Director Niegel Smith, “The American Theater deserves directors with bold visions and clarity to make plays that speak to our world. Each of these individuals brings a depth of passion and a singular point of view that The Flea is happy to include in our cultural practice.” Adds Carol Ostrow, Producing Director, “We are uniquely positioned to support the voices of early career artists. The Flea is proud to be the home for the next generation of leaders in the theater.” Modeled after The Bats, The Flea’s resident company of actors, this intensive residency program offers a small team of early-career directors the opportunity to work, train and direct in support of The Flea’s season under the supervision of Artistic Director Smith, Producing Director Ostrow and The Flea Theater staff. The Flea Resident Directors engage in the full spectrum of directing. They assistant direct and stage manage each other’s shows as well as those of guest artists, review scripts for the theater, direct readings and workshops of plays under consideration by the Artistic and Producing Directors and ultimately direct their own full-length production as part of The Flea’s season. Resident Director Biographies Misha Chowdhury is a queer Bengali director, writer, musician, and performance-maker based in Brooklyn. He is currently a Resident Artist at Ars Nova, a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow. His work has also been seen or developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm, HERE Arts Center, NYMF, Vineyard Arts Project, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Barn Arts Collective, Cloud City, Vox Populi, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and the CATWALK Institute. Misha is the Levitt Artist-in-Residence at Williams College, where he recently directed Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves and will be directing Aleshea Harris’ Beast Thing this fall. Other upcoming collaborations include Virginia Grise’s rasgos asiaticos (Soho Rep and CalArts Center for New Performance) and MukhAgni (Ars Nova), co-created with Kameron Neal. This past year, he assisted Jo Bonney (An Ordinary Muslim, NYTW) and Richard Jones (The Hairy Ape, Park Avenue Armory) Misha received his Bachelors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, his Master of Fine Arts in Directing Theater at Columbia and studied Lecoq-based physical theater at the London International School of Performing Arts. Yuriy Pavlish is a Ukrainian-American artist based in New York City. A maverick director, actor, musician, and producer, he has had the opportunity to work and study with a slew of trailblazing American theater artists, including Emily Young (Fiasco), Davis McCallum (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Ted Lewis (Bedlam), J. Allen Suddeth (SAFD Fight Master), Tara O’Con (Third Rail Projects), and many others. He is the Executive Director of Shakespeare in the Square, an innovative classical theater ensemble, and works extensively with Roll the Bones Theatre company and Combative Theatre Company. Recent credits include: Coriolanus: From Man to Dragon (Director), Hamlet in the Golden Vale (Laertes), which won Best Feature at the Manhattan Film Festival in 2018, and Smith Street Stage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Producer) in Carroll Park. Tyler Thomas is a theater director and choreographer, currently based in New York City. She is most compelled by the development of interdisciplinary, new work that reframes marginal space, narrative, and event. Her work has most recently been shown at HERE Arts Center, Paradise Factory, The Performing Garage, internationally at the Athens Conservatoire, and at various theaters across NYU. Recent assistant credits include Miss You Like Hell (The Public Theater), Is God Is (Soho Rep), Master (The Foundry Theatre), Big River (City Center Encores!), and Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary (University Settlement). This fall, she will continue development on a site specific performance, If Hands Could Speak, as well as assistant direct with Jo Bonney and Taibi Magar at The Public Theater and Atlantic Theater Company, respectively. She is originally from Marigouin, Louisiana and holds a BFA in Drama and MA in Arts Politics from NYU. Dina Vovsi is a New York-based director committed to developing and devising new plays. She has directed at Dixon Place (The Bastard), TheaterLab (Visiting Hours), The Culture Project’s Women Center Stage (everything’s whispered (for now)), The Barn Arts Collective (Vasilisa Most Lovely), FringeNYC (All the Windows On Alcatraz), The Muse (Flora and Fever), Working Theater (The Corporation, The Shanty, Uniontruth.com), Atlantic Acting School (Huera) and has developed new work with Pipeline Theatre Company, The Flea Theater, Fresh Ground Pepper, New York Madness, Communal Spaces, Theatre 167 and more. Dina was a Robert Moss Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, an SDC Foundation Observership awardee, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab, an O’Neill National Directors Fellowship Finalist, and a Mass MoCA Assets for Artists Grantee. She is currently developing Untitled Parlor Play, or, For Home Amusement as a 2017-18 Access Theater Resident Artist, and is under commission from the Working Theater’s 5 Boroughs 1 City Project, developing a play based in the community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn with playwright Liba Vaynberg. This fall, she will direct Iphigenia and Other Daughters at LIU’s Post Theatre Company along with a solo show about the educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune at the United Solo Festival. Dina is a native Russian speaker born in Riga, Latvia who came to the United States when she was 2 years old. Ran Xia is an interdisciplinary theatre artist originally from Shanghai, China. Her plays have been seen on NYC stages including IRT (Pomegrenade, also artistic producer of The Arctic Group’s Fridge Fest), HERE Arts Center (Harmony), Dixon Place (Princess Anybody, North, They Lived In The Attic, Tabula Rasa, etc.), The Tank (Echo, Táo at 2018 Dark Fest), 4th Street Theater at NYTW (Word Play), The Brick ([ai]), Jewel Box Theater (De Profundis, also at the Cell), The Kraine, The Wild Project, etc. As a frequent collaborator with the Exquisite Corpse Co., she was one of the writers for The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte. As a sound designer, she’s worked on Maggie Cino’s production of Three Sisters at The Brick, Adam Odsess-Rubin’s Speechless (Dir. Daniel Deloma, Project + Connect), the recent revival of an immersive Dutchman (Dir. Demone), etc. Ran is a co-creator of the bi-monthly Polar Bear Plunge salon show at Lucky Jack’s. Off Broadway Assistant Directing credits include Baby Fat: Act I (La Mama & Columbia Stages, Dir. Michael Scholar Jr.), Two Miles Hollow (by Leah Nanako Winkler, Dir. Morgan Gould at Woman’s Project), and The Great Leap (by Lauren Yee, Dir. Taibi Magar at the Atlantic Theater). A contributing critic with Theatre Is Easy and Exuent. ranxia.info | thearcticgroup.org Anne Cecelia Haney is a bilingual Brooklyn-based director, musician, and translator. Her production of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Trojan Women was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation. Recent directing credits include Max Mondi’s House of Karen (Signature Theater x Columbia University) and Eli Nixon’s Blood Bag (Brown University, Barn Arts). Anne has also developed and directed work at JACK, The Bushwick Starr Reading Series, The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival , Dixon Place, Rising Circle, The Brick, The Tank, Cloud City/The Freight Project, and Highways Performance Space, among others. B.A., Comparative Literature, University of Virginia. www.annececeliahaney.com Kate Moore Heaney is a director, producer, and dramaturg committed to promoting empathy and investigating social, political, and human rights issues through theatre. Kate is currently a Resident Director at The Flea Theater, Associate Artistic Producer at Noor Theatre, and a Co-Program Director for the Amoralists’ ’Wright Club. She has directed and developed new work with The Civilians’ R&D Group (’17/’18 member), The Flea, The Shakespeare Society (’15-’17 Ambassador), Theatre 4the People, the PIT, Fundamental Theatre Project, The Director’s Gathering Jam, Jersey City Theatre Center, Loading Dock, Midtown International Theatre Festival, The Secret Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, TinyRhino, Rising Sun Performance Company, Playwrights at the Grand, and Yes Noise on the High Line. She has worked, trained, and/or assistant directed at McCarter Theatre (2014-15 Directing/Producing Assistant), Second Stage, Clubbed Thumb, CRY HAVOC, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, the Théâtre du Châtelet, and the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. She graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Theatre Studies and Psychology from Yale University. www.katemooreheaney.com Kimille Howard is a freelance director, producer, writer, filmmaker, and occasional sound designer from Carmel, Indiana. She recently worked at McCarter Theatre where she assisted Emily Mann on the world premier of Sharyn Rothstein’s All the Days, Jade King Carroll on August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Stephen Wadsworth on Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors. Other recent credits include: Pardon My French (dir.), Multistages Theatre Company’s Comida De Puta (asst. dir.), Not in this Room (dir.) for the 2015 Fire This Time Festival, Where We Flounder (dir. and playwright) at the Manhattan Repertory Theater, Byrony Lavery’s Frozen (producer with Cornice Productions), The French Theatrical Foundation’s national tour of Molière Malgré Moi (associate producer), Boot Camp (dir.), The Other Mozart (associate producer), Partly Cloud People Production’s Dolores (asst. dir., sound designer, stage manager), Holy Land (associate producer), and various readings. She is also an admin/writer for artsincolor.com, associate producer of The American Slavery Project, and an associate member of The League of Professional Theatre Women. Eugene Ma is an international multidisciplinary theatre-maker. Trained primarily as a director, Eugene has helmed works by Paula Vogel, Thornton Wilder, Moliere, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Mike Lew, Shane Sakhrani and Saviana Stanescu. As an actor, Eugene has performed at venues such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Wallis Annenberg Center L.A., La Mama E.T.C., P.S. 122, Joe’s Pub @ the Public, the late Ontological- Hysteric and the late Ohio Theatre, working with visionaries like Mary Zimmerman, Christopher Bayes, Stan Lai, Josh Fox, Ruth Maleczech and Sutton Foster. As a composer/music director, his music has been heard at the Yale School of Drama, Joe’s Pub and Urban Stages, receiving a Drama Desk nomination recognizing his score for The Man Who Laughs in 2013! A certified teacher of Clown and Commedia dell’Arte, Eugene completed his teaching apprenticeship with Christopher Bayes (Head of Physical Acting, Yale School of Drama) at Yale and Juilliard. He has since guest taught at Yale College, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Fordham University, NYU and PPAS. AEA. BFA: NYU. www.playwitheugene.com Marina McClure creates emotionally charged theater, opera, and spectacles by fusing striking visual design and physical work with performers. She collaborates with multicultural performers to bring diverse stories (including from Iraq, Cambodia, Ukraine, South Africa, China, and Afghanistan) to American and international audiences. She helms the multidisciplinary art lab The New Wild and is a resident director at The Flea Theater. Her work has been presented by REDCAT, American Conservatory Theater’s Costume Shop, HERE, The Flea, chashama, JACK, United Solo, Dixon Place, FringeNYC, Vox Theater, Peterborough Players, Northern Stage, The Kennedy Center, Hotel Helix, CapFringe, the Hilton Arts Festival, The Theatre Centre, Superhero Clubhouse and Handspring Puppet Company. Recent credits include: Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea); Tear a Root from the Earth, a new musical for Afghanistan in collaboration with Qais Essar and Gramophonic (New Ohio’s Ice Factory; Kennedy Center); Kalean Ung’s Letters from Home (ISC in Los Angeles; UC San Diego); Leisure, Labor, Lust (Art House; The Mount); Gramophonic’s new folk opera Tear a Root from the Earth (DC). She teaches directing at The National Theater Institute and regularly is a guest artist at Dartmouth College and NYU-Tisch. David Monteagudo is a Brooklyn-based director and producer. He has developed and produced work with The Flea, The Atlantic, Theater for the New City, and Ma-Yi Theaters amongst others. His project Under the Hoodwhich melds game theory and theatrical conventions was featured in the 2014 Come out and Play Festival and will be presented as part of The Best Games Festival in Pittsburgh. He is a founding member of State of Play. Michael Raine is thrilled to be back at The Flea, having been a Resident Director in the old space on White Street from 2014-2015. During that time, Michael directed a dozen episodes of #Serials and adapted and directed the Grand-Guignol classic The System which was remounted for an encore run as one of the audience favorites from the series. Michael directed and choreographed the full-length version of the long running #serial LOCKED UP BITCHES, written by frequent partner in crime, playwright Catya McMullen. They have put up short plays together for E.S.T./Youngbloods, #serials@theflea, Atlantic Stage 2, The Tank and the People’s Improv Theater. Also a choreographer and teacher, Michael’s choreography has been seen regionally and around New York, including Joe’s Pub, Theater for a New City, NYMF, and the Folksbiene, as well as Yale Rep, all five seasons at the Weston Playhouse and the Japanese tour of Rent. Michael has choreographed productions for Juilliard Drama, CAP21, Brooklyn College, University of Miami, and NYU’s graduate acting program, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2008. The Flea Theater, under new Artistic Director Niegel Smith and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading Off-Off-Broadway companies. Winner of several Obie Awards, a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement and an Otto Award for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 theatrical, musical and dance performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include premieres by Steven Banks, Thomas Bradshaw, Erin Courtney, Bathsheba Doran, Will Eno, Karen Finley, Amy Freed, Sarah Gancher, Sean Graney, A.R. Gurney, Jennifer Haley, Hamish Linklater, Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio, Itamar Moses, Anne Nelson, Qui Nguyen, Adam Rapp, Jonathan Reynolds, Kate Robbins, Roger Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Swados, and Mac Wellman. Successes include Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters, These Seven Sicknesses, Restoration Comedy, The Mysteries and ten World Premiere productions by A.R. Gurney, including the WSJ Best New Play of 2013, Family Furniture. The Flea Theater is located at 20 Thomas Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks north of Chambers, close to the A/C/E, N/Q/R/W, 4/5/6, J/M/Z and 1/2/3 subway lines. Purchase tickets by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org. |
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