The Second Annual Directors Lab took place on March 2nd-April 1st 2007.
Mahayana Landowne conceived and directed a workshop production of her original work, The Picasso Project.
Wants to create collective imaginative support for dramatic visions that transcend daily life. Recently directed: Blue. (Vital Theater), Carcass (Dispora Drama), Baby Dance, (Schoolhouse Theater), The Heiress, (The Roundtable Ensemble at the Mint), Machinal (U. of Rochester), Vagina Monologues ( Millbrook Playhouse), and Terrible Infant (Fringe Festival). Musicals include: Spring Bling, Summer in the Hummer, and The Dick Cheney Holiday Spectacular (Ace of Clubs), Western Unidad (Ice Factory Festival, Ohio Theater), Post-Code (American Living Room, HERE), Woman’s Voices of Union Square (Tenement Museum). Favorite past productions include The Skriker, Antony and Cleopatra, The Seagull, brass logic, Streetcar Named Desire,Obgynt, King Lear, and Mud. Affiliations/ Fellowships include: Drama League 00’, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 04, Directors Lab West 06, Woman’s Project, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizon’s Theater School, NYU and Yale School of Drama. NYU-BFA-acting YSD-MFA-directing. Yana currently serves resident director for BillionairesforBush.com.
For more info check out: yana.landowne.org.
Katherine Kovner directed a workshop production of Iphigenia and Other Daughters by Ellen McLaughlin.
Katherine is an Artistic Associate with Classic Stage Company where she recently directed a workshop of The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Frances Beaumont. This summer she directed Lizardskin by Jen Silverman in the New York International Fringe Festival. She has also directed work for New Georges, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Manhattan Oracles, Another Urban Riff, Powerhouse Theater Company, and As Written Productions. A graduate of Brown University, she has been the directing fellow at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab and attended the Lincoln Center’s Director Lab. Some of her assisting credits include Lisa Kron’s Well directed by Leigh Silverman on Broadway, Death of a Salesman directed by Robert Falls in London’s West End, and Richard II directed by Brian Kulick at Classic Stage Company.
Adam Immerwahr directed a workshop production of Know Dog by Kate Walat.
Adam is a director and teacher currently based in Princeton, New Jersey. His recent directing credits include Measure for Measure (Brown University Mainstage), Twelve Angry Peanuts (McCarter Theatre – YouthInk Festival), Metamorphoses and Still Life with Iris (Interlochen Center for the Arts), Endgame (Production Workshop), and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Musical Forum). He has served as an assistant director to Tina Landau (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Emily Mann ( Miss Witherspoon), and Michael Unger (A Christmas Carol) . Adam has interned for The Greenwich Playhouse, The Galleon Theatre Company (UK), and has worked for McCarter Theatre, Jump Inc., Performance Studies International, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the Brown/Trinity Rep. Consortium. Adam has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Theatre, Speech and Dance (with honors) and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
Dominic D'Andrea directed a workshop production of When the World was Green by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard.
Dominic is a director based in NYC. Recent credits include: Brick Theater: Deep Wells a devised object play, Damn Teddybears, and currently You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out! ; Ensemble Studio Theatre (2005 director in residence/ artistic associate): world premieres of Anton Dudley’s Pleaching The Coffin Sisters, and Bathsheba Doran’s 2 Soldiers; Prospect Theater Dark Nights (directing commission): world Premiere of Michael John Garces’ Last Call; Sanford Meisner Theater: Revival of David Lindsay-Abaire’s A Devil Inside; Recent workshops and festivals at: Ohio Theatre/ Soho Think Tank, The Ontological Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center, E 7th Small Stage by Jakob Holder, Rodrigo Toscano, Graham Gordy, Youngblood members Sam Forman and Ross Maxwell. TV: Radical Media: Post production for Sundance Channel’s Iconoclasts and various documentary projects for MTV. Fellowships: Kennedy Center/ ACFT National Directing Fellowship, Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, SDCF Observership; Member: Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Chicago Directors Lab, SSDC Associate. Dominic directs for the Lark Play Development Center, and NYU’s First Look. He is a Graduate of the University of Maryland.
The First Annual Luna Stage Directors' Lab took place on January 13th-February 5th, 2006.
Joseph E. Galione directed a workshop production of The Pugilist Specialist by Adriano Shaplin.
Joe Galione is a graduate of Montclair State University. He holds a degree in English Literature and Theater Studies. Recent Credits: Put Your Mustache On by Brian Parks, No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Twelfth Night and Henry V by William Shakespeare, Fool by Victor Kaufold, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. Joe directed a workshop production of The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter at Luna Stage last season. Joe has studied in New York with Christopher Carter Sanderson and at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He also works as a sound designer and composer, writing music for some of the productions he directs.
Shannon MacMillan directed a staged reading of The Parents' Evening by Bathsheba Doran.
A native Californian ruthlessly transplanted to the East Village, Shannon MacMillan considers winter an ethical dilemma. Nevertheless she is greatly excited to be participating in the Director’s Lab at Luna Stage this January. A theatrical chameleon, Shannon directs, performs, designs, and generally gets her hands into too many projects at once to ever be bored. Inspiration often comes from her ongoing work with such NYC companies as Mabou Mines and Theater for the New City. She holds a B.A. in Theater from Smith College, where her award-winning production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus played to much critical acclaim. She is a California Alliance for Arts Education/ Herb Alpert Foundation Emerging Young Artist in Theater, an achievement which continues to surprise and delight her. Most recently, Shannon is proud to have co-directed Sempre Libera-Always Free, a fully staged aria concert to benefit the NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. She thanks her crazy Italian family for constantly infusing her life with love and dramatic conflict.
Kitt Lavoie directed a workshop production of Creative Writing a new play by J. Holtham.
Kitt Lavoie is a director, actor, playwright, and designer. A graduate of Fordham University with a bachelor’s degree in political science, Kitt holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School. He is the Artistic Director of The CRY HAVOC Company, a company he co-founded in 1997 as a resource for emerging theater directors, actors, and playwrights. He is also a founding member of the Professional Playwrights’ Workshop at The Players Club.
Over the past seven years, Kitt has directed more than sixty shows in New York City, including the original productions of more than twenty-five plays. He is also the author of seventeen produced plays and musical books, including Twice Rather Perish, Knowing Her, Crispian Deserters, The Median Line (for which he was awarded the first of two Robinson Awards for Dramatic Writing), a rock musical adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (sanctioned by the Tolkien Society), and Seven Keys—a new multi-media adaptation of George M. Cohan's Seven Keys to Baldpate—which he co-wrote with Graeme Gillis, commissioned by Ring of Fire Productions.
Among the shows Kitt has directred in New York are the original productions of Then... by Cynthia Franks, Tegwar by Damon DiMarco, Merry-Go-Round by Don Andreason, Bad Girls by M.Z. Ribalow, Misogyny Love by Crystal Y. Carter, and Obit, Birth of Punk, and Welcome Back, Buddy Combs by Ben Rosenthal, as well as new productions of Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, One for the Road by Harold Pinter, Am I Blue by Beth Henley, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco, Oleanna and Revenge of the Space Pandas by David Mamet, Italian American Reconciliation and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley, and Bent by Martin Sherman.
Kitt has appeared on the New York stage as Macbeth, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, The Interrogator in David Mamet’s Bobby Gould in Hell, Duke Senior in As You Like It, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark, Sterling in Jeffrey, and some twenty other roles. Kitt has served as scenic and/or lighting designer on more than fifty productions. In addition, he has produced the new play festivals a new way to say it..., *gratuity not included, and Road Test, as well as a repertory production of Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing for The CRY HAVOC Company, plus some twenty other New York productions for CRY HAVOC and others.
Juan Carlos Souki directed a staged reading of Nocturne by Adam Rapp.
Juan Souki has achieved many credits in directing as an emerging artist in the Venezuelan creative scene, through versatile manifestations in theater, music, publicity and multimedia projects. He has worked in conjunction with Ghersy Bates / Bates Worldwide, Bigott Foundation, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Corp Group Foundation, Caracas International Theatre Festival, Chilean Embassy in Venezuela, CELARG Foundation, Venezuelan writer’s circle, Oscar Carvallo couture and many others.
Interested in “global” processes containing different artistic tendencies, Souki has been awarded with local and Latin American prizes in theatre and multimedia. His life achievements include more than twenty directed projects so far. After short term studies in Italy, Czech Republic, U.S.A. and Venezuela, Souki directs the young artist collective K.S.T. Project (Kaiser Soze Teatro), worked as cultural Advisor of La Salle Provincialate in Venezuela, runs the image of Esperanto Records and cover free-lance compromises.
He has recently moved to New York City to attend the M.F.A. program in Theatre Directing at Columbia University. Recently Juan C. Souki has been selected as one of the final nominees for the MARCO ANTONIO ETTEDGUI National Theatre prize for emerging artists given by Rajatabla Foundation of Venezuela.
Juan Carlos Souki will direct Nocturne as the premiere production of Luna's Stage Two in the Fall of 2006.
