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, and Virginia Stage. Her opera credits include La Traviata, Rigoletto,
Madama Butterfly, Lucia DiLammermoor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Of Mice and Men, Eugene Onegin, and Pocahontas. She will direct Leonard Bernstein's Mass. Berlin served as president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers
Society from 2002 to 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 Vermeer by Bruce
Robinson; Justin Fleming's Burnt Piano; Joe Sutton's Voir Dire; and
New World Rhapsody by Adam Kraar. He directed TheDew 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.
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. 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, and 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 seven 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, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, 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.
