Director Assistant

ADRIANA BAER

STAGE DIRECTOR

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PRODUCTIONS

CLASSICS

Comedy of Errors & Julius Caesar William Shakespeare The Acting Co. (Staff Rep. Director 2011-12)

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Columbia Stages

A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Schapiro Theatre

Seagull Anton Chekhov Studio Theatre (New York)

The Hairy Ape Eugene O Neill Schapiro Theatre

midsummer (dreaming) William Shakespeare Studio Theatre

Woyzeck** Georg B chner The Cutting Ball Theater

No Exit** Jean-Paul Sartre The Cutting Ball Theater

The Maids Jean Genet The Cutting Ball Theater

CONTEMPORARY

Stage Door Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman Atlantic Theater Company Acting School

Killing Time: a cabaret of a criminal mind* original work with music The Cell

Between Mouthfuls Alan Ayckbourn Atlantic Theater Company Acting School

Fly Season* John McKinney WorkShop Theater

Tender Was The Night* Jeffrey James Keyes Studio Theatre

The Suicide of the Glutton* Jason Platt Studio Theatre

OPERA & MUSIC

Madame White Snake** Cerise Lim Jacobs, Zhou Long Beijing Music Festival Associate Director

Madame White Snake* ** Cerise Lim Jacobs, Zhou Long Opera Boston Assistant Director

Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert Boston Children s Chorus ABC networks (national) Staging Director

* world premier ** award (see below)

NEW PLAY WORKSHOPS & READINGS

The Hundred Flowers Project Christopher Chen Lark New Play Development Center

Tender Jeffrey James Keyes Boomerang Theatre First Flight

Iphigenia Crash Land Falls Caridad Svich The Cutting Ball Theater

Phoenix Flower Amy Claussen Primary Stages, Penguin Rep

Wreckage Caridad Svich Highwire Theatre

Sweet Maladies Zakiyyah Alexander Ensemble Studio Theatre

Sweet Maladies Zakiyyah Alexander Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Girl Triptych Janet Allard The Cutting Ball Theater

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco, CA 2004 2007

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

Paradise Lost Clifford Odets Oregon Shakespeare Festival Libby Appel

The Circle W. Somerset Maugham American Conservatory Theatre Mark Lamos

Restoration Comedy Amy Freed California Shakespeare Theater Sharon Ott

AWARDS and AFFILIATIONS

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)

Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab West (Los Angeles)

Pulitzer Prize for music awarded to Zhou Long for Madame White Snake (2011) (Associate Director for the

world premier at Opera Boston and the Beijing International Music Festival 2010)

Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Direction: Woyzeck, 2007

No Exit Named in the Top 10 Stage Productions of 2005 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian

Awards for The Cutting Ball during tenure include Best of the Bay 2007, Best of San Francisco 2006

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY MFA: Theater Directing

Recipient of the Theatre Fellowship and the Provost s Fellowship

Mentors include Anne Bogart, Robert Woodruff, and Brian Kulick

SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, Bronxville, NY BA: Liberal Arts - Theater and English Literature

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