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I had the honor of directing scenes from Harold Pinter’s Old Times. for Karen Kohlhaas’ directing class. You can take a look here.
I send huge amounts of gratitude to the three actors who took this project with me: Jaqui Shiel, Lori Kee, and Mark Cosby for their stellar work on this piece.
Here’s the first play I ever directed. Many moons ago,
You know how you’re going along and living your life and doing your work, and then you stumble over the thing you were born to do? For me, it was directing theatre.
In college, I took a Women’s Studies class. We had to do a feminist social action as part of the class. I loved theatre (I was an English Drama major, after all), and so I decided to put on a feminist play. I chose Pam Gems’ Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi. I found four women to be in the show (the professor mandated that they had to either be in a women’s studies class or had taken one, and luckily I found four women who were actors and were willing to try this crazy experiment). And then we mounted a production on a 50.00 budget in the black box theater in the basement of the Frieze building at the University of Michigan. I lived and breathed that play for months and directed it with zero clue how to direct. But we did it. And it was magnificent. Yes, I may be wearing rose colored glasses about this (just look at the program I made using MacDraw back in 1987), but it was the best time I ever had (oh, and we filled the house!)
As I do more directing, I’ll drop more info here.
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