NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors
2007-2009 Recipients
Hal Brooks is a freelance director currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. His recent directing credits include Obie Award winner No Child…, written and performed by Nilaja Sun; Thom Pain (based on nothing) a Pulitzer finalist by Will Eno, Valparaiso by Don DeLillo, and Six Years by Sharr White which premiered at the 2005 Humana Festival. He is the former artistic director of Rude Mechanicals Theater Company (New York, NY) and a graduate of Yale University and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Cynthia Croot is a director based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has taken her to Argentina, South Africa, Syria and Juneau, Alaska. Recent credits include Julius Caesar for Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Boulder) and Scenes from the Last Five Years, a hip-hop rap opera by Tommy Smith that was part of the Theaters Against War (THAW) Collaboration Weekend at Baruch College in New York City. She is an MFA graduate of Columbia University.
Alec Duffy is a director and playwright based in New York, NY. He is the artistic director of the New York based theatre company Hoi Polloi. Recent original work (as writer and director) includes Dysphoria (Ontological Theater, New York, NY) and The Top Ten People of the Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder, which began in New York City and toured to Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago, IL). Current projects include Me and Marie Curie, which was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a graduate of Duke University and Ecole Jacques Lecoq (Paris, France).
Davis McCallum is a New York based director whose recent work includes the world premiere of Quiara Hudes’ Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue (P73; 2007 Pulitzer Finalist); a national tour of Jane Eyre (The Acting Company); and the New York premiere of Charles Mee’s A Perfect Wedding (NYU Grad Acting). Regionally, he’s directed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, and Playmakers Rep, among others. Upcoming: the world premiere of Charles Mee’s Queens Boulevard for Signature Theater Company in New York City.
Rob Melrose is the founding artistic director of The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco where he has directed The Taming of the Shrew, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, My Head Was a Sledgehammer, Hamletmachine, Roberto Zucco, As You Like It, Macbeth, and the world premiere of The Vomit Talk of Ghosts. For Cutting Ball, he has also translated No Exit, Woyzeck, and Ubu Roi. Mr. Melrose has an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama.
Kathy Randels is a director, writer and performer based in New Orleans, LA. She is the founding artistic director of Artspot Productions, whose recent site-specific works includeLakeviews and Beneath the Strata/Disappearing (both directed by Ms. Randels) These pieces consider post-Katrina life and the cultural extinction faced by Southeast Louisiana cultures. She is the recipient of a 2003 Obie award for her work on Nita & Zita. Other ArtSpot projects include New Orleans Suite and a collaboration with Alternate ROOTS on UPROOTED: the Katrina Project.
Peter Rothstein is the founding artistic director of Minneapolis-based Theater Latté Da, a company committed to new music theater. He was recently awarded one of the 2007 Minnesota's Artists of the Year from the Star Tribune, and the 2007 Theater Artist of the Year from Lavender Magazine. He was also awarded the City Pages’ Best Director of 2006. Recent work includes Private Lives for the Guthrie Theater, winning best production and best director of 2007 from the Star Tribune. In addition to his work in the theater, Mr. Rothstein has worked extensively in opera. He has a B.A. in Music and Theater from St. John's University and an MFA in directing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison..