Project Assistant

Catherine ( Calla ) Videt

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EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA September 2004 June 2009

B.A., magna cum laude, June 2009. Highest Honors in Field of Special Concentration, the

simultaneous study of physics and theater. Language citation in Thai.

Recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts awarded to the senior with the most

outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of film, music,

drama, dance or visual arts. Artistic Development Fellow, 2009. Harvard Scholar for the

2004-2005 academic year. Nominated for 2006 Wendell Phillips scholarship. Recipient of 2007

Dudley House book prize for academic excellence. Former member of Harvard s Dudley Co-

operative Community.

SINGAPORE AMERICAN SCHOOL September 2000 May 2004

RECENT THEATER WORK

Directing:

Artist in Residence at Watermill Center as a part of WorldWide Directors Lab, Oct

2011

that time, and the time before that, and written by Calla Videt and B. Walker

Sampson, directed by Calla Videt, Dixon Place, Oct 2011 (Sightline)

Sound Proof, conceived and directed by Calla Videt, Battery Park/Governor s Island,

Figment Festival, June 2011 (Sightline)

Hold Music, written by Calla Videt and B. Walker Sampson, directed by Calla Videt,

Living Theatre, March 2011 (Culture Project/Women Center Stage, Nominated for

NYIT award)

The Past is a Foreign Country, directed by Calla Videt, performed by the Citizen s

Band, Highline Ballroom, Dec 2010 (Culture Project/Press Here)

One Arm and a Leg, conceived and devised by Calla Videt, Premeried at Theater for the

New City s Dream Up Festival and moved to HERE Arts Center, NY, Aug-Sept 2010

(Sightline)

UNlearning Intolerance, performance installation directed by Calla Videt,

commissioned by the Culture Project, Washington Sq Park, NY, Jun 2010 (Culture

Project)

The Untitled Project, conceived and devised by Calla Videt, Gene Frankel Theatre, NY,

June 2010 (Sightline/Planet Connections Festivity, Winner for Best Sound Design)

The Space Between conceived and devised by Calla Videt, Loeb Mainstage, American

Repertory Theater, Apr. 2009 (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Mnemonic by Complicite, New College Theater, Harvard University, Oct. 2008

The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol adapted by Complicite, Loeb Mainstage, American

Repertory Theater, Apr. 2007 (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Dinner by Moira Buffini. Loeb Experimental Theatre, Oct. 2006 (Harvard-Radcliffe

Dramatic Club)

Directing training: Robert Woodruff, Marcus Stern (Harvard University, American

Repertory Theater)

Awards:

Person of the Year 2011, nytheatre.com

Best Sound Design for The Untitled Project, Planet Connections Festivity, 2010

Assisting/Apprenticeships:

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, Duchess Theatre, dir Simon McBurney, Sept/Oct. 2009

(Complicite Theatre Company)

Best of Both Worlds Workshop, Public Theater, dir Diane Paulus, June 2009 (American

Repertory Theater/Public Theater)

Cascando, Words and Music, but the clouds by Samuel Beckett, 92nd Street Y, dir

Robert Scanlan, Apr. 2006 (92nd Street Y)

Assistant Director to Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, Loeb Experimental Theater,

Apr. 2008 (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Assistant Director to Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill, Loeb Experimental Theater, Apr.

2010 (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Assistant Director to Blasted by Sarah Kane, Loeb Mainstage, American Repertory

Theater, Apr. 2008 (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Observer to Cardenio by Charles Mee/Stephen Greenblatt, Loeb Mainstage, American

Repertory Theater, dir Les Waters, Apr. 2008 (American Repertory Theater)

Writing:

that time, and the time before that, and written by Calla Videt and B. Walker

Sampson, directed by Calla Videt, Dixon Place, Oct 2011 (Sightline)

Hold Music, written by Calla Videt and B. Walker Sampson, directed by Calla Videt,

Living Theatre, March 2011 (Culture Project/Women Center Stage, Nominated for

NYIT award)

Vanishing Print by Calla Videt, directed by Jenny Greeman, New Perspectives Theater

Company, NY, Sept 2010 (Women s Work Lab)

One Arm and a Leg, conceived and devised by Calla Videt, Theater for the New City

and HERE Arts Center, NY, Aug-Sept, 2010 (Sightline)

E = (mc)^3, devised by Calla Videt, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY June

2010 (Nylon Fusion Theatre Company)

The Untitled Project, conceived and devised by Calla Videt, Gene Frankel Theatre, NY,

June 2010 (Sightline /Planet Connections Festivity)

The Space Between conceived and devised by Calla Videt, Loeb Mainstage, American

Repertory Theater, Apr. 2009 (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Acting/Dancing:

Rhinoceros, Loeb Experimental Theatre, dir Jess Burkle, Dec. 2005. (Harvard-

Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Abu Ghraib, Loeb Experimental Theatre, dir Currun Singh, May 2005. (Harvard-

Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

The Man Who, Loeb Experimental Theatre, dir Brian Fairley, Mar. 2005. (Harvard-

Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Antigone, Loeb Experimental Theatre, dir Adam Zalisk, Mar. 2005. (Harvard-Radcliffe

Dramatic Club)

Albanian Softshoe, Loeb Experimental Theatre, dir Austin Guest and Greg Gagnon,

Nov. 2004. (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club)

Acting training: Tommy Derrah, Remo Airaldi (Harvard University, American

Repertory Theater)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Artistic Director June, 2010-Present

Sightline

www.sightlinetheater.org

Intern Summer 2001

Asia Society, New York, N.Y.

Assisted in premiere U.S. tour of Dance - The Spirit of Cambodia, a project of the Royal

University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

MISCELLANEOUS

B ackground : Dual citizen of Thailand and U.S. Grew up in Japan, Hong Kong and

Singapore.

Languages: English, Thai, basic French.

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