Illana Stein is a New York-based director. NYC credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Queens Players, The Secret Theatre), The Offering (Network One-Act Play Festival, Winner: Best Play), or what she will (FringeNYC 2012, Winner: Overall Excellence in Directing), Stop Kiss (Sanguine Theatre Company), The Matthew Portraits and No Stranger There (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Theatre Festival.) She has directed staged readings of Lady Frederick at The Pearl Theatre Company/Pick Your Poison, Fiona Kyle’s MFA Thesis: Rest is Silence (Harvard University, A.R.T. Theatre), and The Lady Revealed by Andrew Harris at New Dramatists (starring Geoffrey Beevers, playing opposite of Helen Mirren in The Audience on Broadway). Ms. Stein has directed for NYC Companies: Writopia Lab, UglyRhino:TinyRhino, Fresh Produce’d, Co-Op Theatre East, and Working Theatre Directors Salon. Regional assistant directing credits include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and 3 years as Assistant to the Artistic Director at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company where she worked on over 20 productions and assisted with casting. Ms. Stein was selected for the Old Vic New Voices Best of British workshops in NYC and is a resident director with theatre company New York Madness. Most recently she was Associate Director on (New York Time Critic’s Pick) Tamburlaine the Great at Theatre for a New Audience, directed by 4-time Olivier winner, Michael Boyd. She also assisted on a reading of Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fu**ing Bird at The Pearl Theatre Company directed by Howard Shalwitz (Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth). Upcoming she is directing a reading of Daedalus by Wittenberg playwright David Davalos at Amphibian Stage Productions in Fort Worth, Texas and Assistant Director on Don Juan at The Pearl Theatre Company, directed by Artistic Director, Hal Brooks. Ms. Stein was a member of the 2012 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. SDC Associate Member. www.illanastein.com
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