Alan Schneider Director Award

2010 Award Recipient

Anne Kauffman, the 2010 award recipient, was nominated by Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director of the Wilma Theater (Philadelphia, PA) who commended Anne for “her inventive and imaginative Off-Broadway work with young, up-and-coming playwrights… Her work on [our] production of Becky Shaw has exceeded all of our expectations, both in the power and economy of her directorial vision and in her generous approach to collaboration.”

Zizka presented the $7,500 award to Kauffman at the 2010 TCG National Conference in Chicago.

Anne Kauffman is a New York-based director primarily focused on new plays. Most recently she directed This Wide Night by Chloe Moss with Naked Angels, Dot by Kate E. Ryan with Clubbed Thumb, and Six Degrees of Separation at the Williamstown Theater Festival. As a founding member of the Civilians, she is currently working on two projects with them: You Better Sit Down: tales from my parent’s divorce, and Maple and Vine, a play about escaping the modern world, with writer Jordan Harrison.  Upcoming projects include We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a new musical premiering at Yale Rep by Adam Bock and Todd Almond based on the novel by Shirley Jackson and The Verizon Play by Lisa Kron at Drew University. Other credits include: Stunning by David Adjmi for LCT3, Communist Dracula Pageant by Anne Washburn at American Repertory Theater, Dan LeFranc’s Sixty Miles to Silver Lake with P73 and Soho Rep, God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz at the Vineyard and New Georges, Have You Seen Steve Steven by Ann Marie Healy with 13P, Typographer’s Dream by Adam Bock at the Encore Theater and The Ladies by Anne Washburn with The Civilians at Dixon Place and Cherry Lane Theater. Anne is a recipient of a Lilly Award for Directing, a Big Easy Award for her production of The Children’s Hour, and an OBIE Award for her work on The Thugs by Adam Bock at Soho Rep. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, an alumnus of the Soho Rep Writers and Directors Lab, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League of New York, on the advisory board for Soho Rep and LCT3, and a member of New Georges Kitchen Cabinet.  Anne received her MFA in directing from UCSD.

Previous Recipients of the Alan Schneider Award