Director of Education, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (2008 to 2015)
Manager for programs that serve 50,000+ children and family members a year in the Greater Cincinnati Area, including:
➢ age-appropriate touring plays for schools and community venues;
➢ collaborations & partnerships with libraries, churches, arts groups and other institutions;
➢ commissioning and developing new plays for young people;
➢ children’s performance series featuring national artists;
➢ master storyteller performances and workshops in schools;
➢ in-school integrated arts education workshops;
➢ acting classes for children and adults.
Responsibilities included directing plays and workshops; teaching; departmental budgeting including monthly projections; grant writing; recruitment and management of post-graduate acting intern program; representing the Playhouse in the community for outreach, marketing and development. (list of 16 plays directed on request)Freelance Director focus on new plays and plays for multi-generational audiences. (1976-present)
(representative projects below)Artistic Director, Honolulu Theatre for Youth (June 1999–May 2005)
Professional actors performing for 125,000 young people and families a year on the six main islands of Hawai`i. Selection & oversight of 8-play season, including 25 premieres in 6 years; directing 3-5 plays annually; new artist development included writers’ programs and actor training; outreach; development; shared management. Developed working partnerships with Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Hawai‘i Opera Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts, State Library System, Read To Me America, Japanese Cultural Center, Arizona Memorial Museum, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Non-Violence Hotline, and other organizations. (list of 24 plays directed on request)Executive Director, Rain City Projects (1991–99)
Northwest playwrights’ service organization. Published scripts sold at theatres, presented “Night of 1,000 Playwrights” and readings, published theatre journal PLATFORM, awarded travel grants; etc.Director/producer/writer of Interactive Media (1991–1999)
Award-winning interactive educational products for Videodiscovery, Holt-Reinhardt, Scholastic, National Science Foundation, National Institutes for Health (NIH) and Edmark. Awards at New York Film Festival, National Educational Film & Video Festival, Curriculum Product News “District Choice Award,” Media Magazine “Invisions” at Comdex, Software Publisher’s Association.Freelance writer and editor (1983–present)
Elementary and high school language arts, literature, science, and mathematics textbooks and multimedia for major publishers, including Educurious, Prentice Hall, ProQuest, Macmillan, Harcourt Brace/HBJ, Scribners, Houghton Mifflin, Ginn-Silver Burdett, McGraw Hill, and Bess Press. Senior editor for 18 months at Harcourt. Environmental engineering proposals and reports, magazine articles, arts grant proposals, press releases, documentation, and user manuals. (Separate resume on request.)Program Director, Taller Latinoamericano (1979–1981)
Produced, scheduled, and marketed music, theatre, and other performance events for multi-cultural arts center.Artistic Director, Theatre for Your Mother (1977–1983)
Touring theatre company; San Francisco Bay Area schools, old-age homes, prisons, and theatres; produced theatre, concerts, & record albums in NYC.Musician. Composer, keyboardist & accordionist. (1976-present)
Perform and record original music, including sound design and music for theatre, dance and film. (Separate resume on request.)Awards, Fellowships, Memberships
Member, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers (SDC) California Community Theatre Festival, 1st Place for original play, 1971; NEA Directors Fellowship, 1983; New Directors Project, New York Theatre Workshop, 1985; Best of the New Generation, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1986; Panelist, Seattle Arts Commission, 1996; founding Board member, Theatre Puget Sound; Po‘okela Award (Best Overall Play), 1999; Board member, Hawai‘i State Theatre Council, 2003; National Jury, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, 2005; panelist, Hawai`i State Arts Council, 2005; panelist, Culture Works, 2009; Board member, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, 2008-present; panelist, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, 2015.Selected freelance directing projects
New York
Happy Worst Day Ever Arlene Hutton NY Fringe Festival
Special Interests Joe Sutton Working Theatre
Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants. Y York The New Theatre of Brooklyn
As It Is In Heaven Joe Sutton New York Theatre Workshop
The Nain Rouge Mac Wellman Divine Theatre
Mud Maria Irene Fornes New York Theatre Workshop
Los Cronopios No Mueren Julio Cortazar The Latin-American Workshop
Michi’s Blood Franz Xaver Kroetz Creation Productions
The Cell Harold Kimmel Henry Street Playhouse
Kaspar Peter Handke 18th Street Playhouse
The Tattooer Tanizaki/Lutwak Studio Henry
That Time Samuel Beckett Soundscape
Coupled Richard Ploetz Ensemble Studio TheatreNYC Workshops, readings, & performance art
New Dramatists, Lark New Play Development Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, Provincetown Playhouse, Primary Stages, CSC Repertory, Double Image Theatre, HOME for Contemporary Art, New York Stage & Film, New Theatre of Brooklyn, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Franklin Furnace, Interaction Arts Foundation, Mudd Club, Kazuko Hirobayashi Studio, Avantgardarama, Artists Call, PS 122.Regional
Sycorax Y York Snowflake Avalanche/18th & Union (Seattle)
Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry Carnegie Theatre (KY)
Krisit Y York Clifton Performance Theatre (OH)
Eggs Y York People’s Light & Theatre (PA)
The Nina Variations Steven Dietz Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Bleachers in the Sun Y York Smashbox Productions (HI)
Cyrano Jo Roets/Rostand Cyrano’s Off-Center Playhouse (AK)
Framed Y York Smashbox Productions
You Somebody Cataluna/Beamer Diamond Head Theatre (HI)
Complete History of America (Abridged) Long, Martin et al Manoa Valley Theatre (HI)
It Comes Around Y York Theatre Under the Influence (Seattle)
The Wild Goose Circus Russell Davis Annex Theatre (Seattle)
Black Market Joe Sutton Annex Theatre
The Snowflake Avalanche Y York Seattle Group Theatre
High Strangeness Todd Alcott Annex Theatre
The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker Russell Davis George St. Playhouse (NJ) & Annex
Play Samuel Beckett Williamstown Theatre Festival (MA)
Three Stories Phil Bosakowski Williamstown Theatre Festival
One For The Road Harold Pinter Williamstown Theatre Festival
Equus Peter Schaefer Theatre for Your Mother (Bay Area)
The Birthday Party Harold Pinter Theatre for Your Mother
Endgame Samuel Beckett Theatre for Your Mother
You Know I Can’t Hear You
When the Water’s Running Robert Anderson The Road Show (LA)Regional Workshops, readings, & play development
Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices Festival, Bonderman Festival, New Harmony Project, Southern Repertory Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey, Seattle Playwrights’ Alliance, ASK Theatre Projects, Lake George Theatre Festival.Professional Family & Children’s Theatre
A Plantation Celebration multiple writers Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly Y York Milwaukee First Stage
Cyrano Jo Roets/Rostand Cincinnati Fringe Festival
Happy Worst Day Ever Arlene Hutton Last Frontier Theatre Festival
River Rat and Cat Y York ChildsPlay, AZ
Nothing is the Same Y York Seattle Children’s Theatre
New Kid Dennis Foon Honolulu Theatre for Youth
The Last Paving Stone Y York Idaho Theatre for Youth
Frog and Toad (Forever) Y York Seattle Children’s Theatre
The Portrait. The Wind. The Chair. Y York Seattle Children’s Theatre
The Short Tree & the Bird
Who Couldn’t Sing Dennis Foon Seattle Children’s Theatre
Green Eggs & Ham/Gertrude McFuzz Seuss/Kapilow Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Afternoon of the Elves Y York Milwaukee First StageAs education director for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, directed 17 plays. As artistic director for HTY, directed 25 plays including more than a dozen world premieres. (Separate list on request.)
Teaching
Arizona State University West, Leeward Community College (Hawai‘i), Cornish College for the Arts (Seattle), Last Frontier Playwriting Festival (Valdez), University of Alaska (Anchorage), Ohio University, Marshall University (WV), as well as through my positions at Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.Member, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers
Professions/skills: Musician;Educator;Dramaturg;Director