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JOANNE AKALAITIS (Director) was co-founder and co-artistic director of Mabou Mines, where she directed Dressed Like an Egg, Dead End Kids, and Beckett's Cascando (and many more). She has directed five plays for The Court Theatre: Phedré, Mary Stuart, The Iphigenia Cycle (also for Theatre for a New Audience), Life's A Dream, and In the Penal Colony (also for ACT Seattle and Classic Stage Company). Other directorial credits include The Birthday Party, Endgame and The Balcony (American Repertory Theatre); Osud (Fate) (Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College); The Screens (Guthrie Theatre); 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Goodman Theatre); Green Card (Mark Taper Forum); Dance of Death (Arena Stage); In the Summer House (Lincoln Center); The Visit of the Old Lady (New York City Opera); Kata Kabanova (Opera Theater of St. Louis); Cymbeline and Henry IV, Parts I & II (New York Shakespeare Festival); and The Trojan Women (Shakespeare Theater).
She is currently chair of the Theatre Department at Bard College, has recently
served as the Andrew J. Mellon Chair of the Directing Program
at the Juilliard School and is the former artistic director of
the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. She is the recipient
of five Obie Awards for direction and production, a Drama Desk
Award, the NEA Award for Sustained Artistic Achievement, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Edwin Booth Award for Theatrical Achievement in
New York, and the TCG/Pew Charitable Trusts National Theatre Residency
Grant at Court.
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