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Directing Program


Amy Saltz (head of directing) has directed classic, contemporary, and new plays throughout the United States and abroad. New York City audiences have seen her work at Town Hall, Provincetown Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Public Theater, Theater for a New Audience, and HB Playwrights Foundation, among others. She has directed at most of the country's major regional theaters, including the Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, where she served on the selection committee and directed new work by over 40 playwrights including Lee Blessing, Adam Rapp, John Henry Redwood, John Patrick Shanley, and August Wilson. Ms. Saltz has been invited to direct in Russia, Croatia, and Lithuania. She has served as theater panelist and/or evaluator for the Drama League's Director Fellowships, National Endowment of the Arts/Theatre Communication Group's Directing Fellows, Massachusetts Cultural Council, TCG's Plays-in-Process, New York State Council on the Arts, and has served on multiple award panels. She and her productions have won the Drama Desk, Joseph Jefferson, Artisan, Handy, Time Off, and Connecticut Critics Circle Awards and have been nominated for Obie, Helen Hayes, and Grammy Awards. She is listed in both Who's Who and Who's Who of American Women. She is a member of the League of Professional Theater Women, serves on the advisory board for 7 Devils Playwrights Conference, and was for many years a member of the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Television credits include Another World and Search For Tomorrow. She has taught and/or directed at the Yale School of Drama, Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in New York, and North Carolina School of the Arts. She is a member of the Directors' Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Pamela Berlin (directing) has credits that include Endpapers at the Variety Arts Theatre in New York and Steel Magnolias, which ran for three years off Broadway as well as having a national tour, and Los Angeles and Chicago productions. She has directed To Gillian on her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square); The Cemetery Club (Broadway); Crossing Delancey (Jewish Repertory Theatre); Joined at the Head and Pretty Fire (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Family of Mann and The Red Address (Second Stage Theatre); Three in the Back, Two in the Head (MCC); Black Ink and Elm Circle (Playwrights Horizons); Snowing at Delphi and Club Soda (WPA); Vita and Virginia with Kathleen Chalfant and Patricia Elliot (Zipper Theatre); and Close Ties and numerous one-acts (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regionally, she has directed A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Copenhagen, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Plough and the Stars, True West, On the Verge, Translations, Tea, and Joe Egg, among others, at such theatres as the Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory, Long Wharf, Huntington, Pittsburgh Public, Passadena, Portland Stage, Virginia Stage. Opera credits include LaTraviata, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Lucia DiLammermoor, Midsummer Night's Dream, Of Mice and Men, Eugene Onegin, and Pocahontas. She will direct Leonard Bernstein's Mass. Ms. Berlin served as president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society from 2002-2008.

WIlliam Carden (director) is artistic director of the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City where he most recently directed PTSD by Tommy Smith and Lucy by Damien Atkins. Prior to that he was artistic director of the HB Playwrights Foundation for 11 years where he directed Mrs. Klein and Collected Stories, starring Uta Hagen; Horton Foote's The Habitation of Dragons; Another Vermeerby Bruce Robinson, Justin Fleming's Burnt Piano; Joe Sutton's Voir Dire; and New World Rhapsody by Adam Kraar. He directed The Dew Point by Neena Beber for the Summer Play Festival; James Ryan's The Young Girl and the Moonsoon at Playwrights Horizons, and Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf at the Stratford Festival in Canada. He teaches in the M.F.A degree acting and directing programs at Rutgers.

Israel Hicks (director/chair) also teaches in the directing program.

 
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