Working Theater presents
The 3rd Annual Directors Salon
April 16-22, 2012
The Directors Salon is curated by Salon founders Luke Harlan, Dina Vovsi, and Nicole A. Watson, with the support of Working Theater Producing Artistic Director Mark Plesent. The Salon supports emerging NYC directors by giving them t he chance to showcase their work, meet with other directors and theater artists, and to hear from leaders in the fields of directing, design, and arts management and most importantly, to get their hands dirty and actually DIRECT!
2012 SUBMISSION FORM (.doc or .pdf)
(DEADLINE 2/17/2012)
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CALLING ALL DIRECTORS!!
The 2012 Working Theater Directors Salon is excited to announce that we will be presenting short works by emerging directors during our Third Annual week-long Directors Salon in Spring 2012. We are looking for Director-driven work that has not had a previous production. We are supporting works-in-progress and are looking for directors that are currently working on and developing original pieces. These projects can be excerpts of a larger project or short pieces that are no more than 45 minutes long. Each director’s team will receive rehearsal space during the week of the festival, minimal technical resources, and one final presentation during the festival to aid in the development of the piece. The director and artistic team will also receive a talkback with the audience following the final presentation. The dates for the festival are April 16-22, and the night of Director-Driven work will be on Saturday, April 21.
We are looking for projects with a unique vision and aesthetic, bold ideas, and engaging, exciting subject matter.
Note: we are not simply looking for new play submissions, as we can only provide rehearsal space during the week of the festival. Submissions should be pieces that are already in development and would benefit from the opportunity to be shown in front of an audience.
Click here to download the submission form (.doc or .pdf)
Please e-mail the completed submission form, your directing resumé, and a list of team members with short bios to wtdirectors@gmail.com. We are only accepting submissions by e-mail in the interest of saving paper.
Submission deadline is Friday, February 17th by 6pm.
Feel free to e-mail with any questions about the festival or the submission process.
Sincerely,
Luke Harlan, Nicole A. Watson, and Dina Vovsi
Founders and Co-Curators
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The Directors Salon was conceived and curated by
Luke Harlan, Dina Vovsi and Nicole Watson
LUKE HARLAN is a director living and working in New York. He has developed new plays at such institutions as The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Tectonic Theater Project, The New Group, The Kennedy Center, Columbia University, and the O'Neill Theater Center. After receiving the SDC National Directing Award in 2007, Luke assisted director Moisés Kaufman on his acclaimed production of 33 Variations in California and New York. Luke is a member of The PACK, The Assembly, and an associate member of SDC. Selected: Frontier, As Told By The Frontier (Columbia) Cou-Cou Bijoux, Pour Vous (Galapagos), Insatiable Hunger, a new musical (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Fighting A Fish (Kennedy Center); Assistant Director: 33 Variations (La Jolla Playhouse).
 DINA VOVSI is the Literary Associate at Working Theater and a co-founder of the Working Theater Directors Salon. Dina freelances as a director, actor, and production designer. New York directing credits include All the Windows On Alcatraz (FringeNYC '11), Up and Down (Complete Theatre Company, Short Play Lab), and assistant directing a workshop of OyamO's White Hot Black Spice (New Dramatists). University credits include The Blue Room, The Art of Dining, and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Dina studied devised theatre and performance art at Queen Mary, University of London, where she collaborated on Fishing for Monroe, and created a solo piece, The Girl, My Friend. She has worked as a Producing Associate at Page 73 Productions and is a NYC Associate of the Prison Creative Arts Project. Graduate of the University of Michigan with a dual degree in Theatre and English.
NICOLE WATSON is a director and educator. She has a BA in history from Yale and an MA in interdisciplinary studies from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. While at Gallatin, Nicole was a Newington-Cropsey Fellow. Recent projects include co-writer on Burnt Sugar Freaks the James Brown Songbook (Apollo Salon Series). She is currently a directing affiliate at the Women’s Project and the Shakespeare Director at the 52nd Street Project where she has directed a number of plays written by Hell’s Kitchen youths. Directing credits include Homage 3:Illmatic (Black River Performing Arts Center), workshops of Suzanne (At Hand Theatre), Crystals Skillman’s Flow (Working Theater and the Brecht Forum), and Oyamo’s new musical White Hot Black Spice (New Dramatists); Deconstruction by Anne Phelan(Open Source Gallery) Reverb by Radha Blank (The Fire This Time Festival) Traffic Jam, (Secret Theatre), One Minute-Play Festival (Here Arts Center), Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers (NYU-Tisch School of the Arts), Foreclosure (NYTE at the Access Theatre), David Hilder’s Just Exactly Like (The Flea), Daniel McCoy’s Eli and Cheryl Jump (2009 Fringe Festival) and The Fantastiks (The Cathedral School, NYC) Nicole also served as a director and mentor for the Gallatin Play Development Lab at NYU where she developed Jack Moore’s Killing John Grisham. She assisted on Signature Theatre’s production of The First Breeze of Summer directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and has worked at the Lark, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. A former history teacher, Nicole has taught at Fieldston and the Cathedral School and has also developed and taught theatre workshops at Stratham Elementary School in New Hampshire as well as the Museum of the City of New York where she teaches an interdisciplinary playwriting/history course and leads professional development workshops on arts and education. |
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