Victor Maog is a stage director and educator whose work has reached over half the continental United States. He has collaborated at the NYSF/Public Theater, Hartford Stage, Williamstown, Ma-Yi, Lark, MCC, New Dramatists, Intar, and directed/taught for NYU/Tisch, UPenn, Fordham, and others. Victor has been recognized with the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Award for Directors, Paula Altvater Fellowship at Cornerstone, Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Second Stage, and the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Enrichment for his collaborations with disadvantaged youth.
A member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, Partial Comfort Productions and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Victor has been a mentor director for the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival and served as a U.S. Delegate to the 31st International Theatre Institute/UNESCO World Congress in Manila. Recently named a Fellow to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, he is embarking on a two-year collaboration with the Monacan Indian Nation of the Blue Ridge Mountains, set to premiere in 2011. A graduate of New York University's Gallatin School with concentrations in Global Leadership and Performance Studies, Victor enters his second season as Director of Theatre at Perry-Mansfield.
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 David Baecker is spending his eleventh summer with the theatre department at Perry-Mansfield. His previous P-M directing credits include Mad Forest, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Laramie Project, The Overcoat and others. Additionally, David has participated in several New Works Festival workshops (The Hudsucker Proxy, A Place at Forest Lawn, and Rodeo) and has coordinated P-M in the UK, the camp's London study program with Shakespeare's Globe. During the rest of the year, David is an assistant professor of theatre at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. His recent directing credits for Sage include The Turn of the Screw, Proof, Anton in Show Business and Boston Marriage. He is currently involved in a three-year theatrical exploration of beauty and body image called MIRROR MIRROR. David acts and educates with the New York State Theatre Institute, performing in such shows as 1776 (Thomas Jefferson), Miracle on 34th Street (Fred Gailey), Anastasia (Dr. Serensky) and The Lark (Brother Ladvenu). He has acted with Theater Voices in Albany and has performed off-Broadway, at the Seattle Fringe Festival, Queens Theatre in the Park and with such companies as the Asolo Theatre Festival and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. David has a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.F.A. from Florida State University, and has studied at the FSU London Study Center and Shakespeare's Globe.
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 Tracy Bersley has directed: Sunjata (Loft); Not a Pipe Dream (Old Vineyard); Tibet/Red Box (HERE, Lincoln Center Lab); Awful Rowing Toward God (Ontological), Rappaccinis Daughter (Jim Henson Festival); Winter's Tale & Streetcar Named Desire (McCarter), Macbeth (Syracuse Stage), Blood Wedding (NYU), Alice in Wonderland, Green Bird, Measure for Measure (Purchase Repertory). Ms. Bersley has choreographed for: Paris Commune (Public); Love Child (Primary Stages); Pericles, Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theatre); Beasley's Christmas Party (Keen Co.); Max and Ruby (Lortel/TheatreWorks); Jane Erye, Tempest (Acting Company); Romeo & Juliet (Williamstown); St. Joan of the Stockyards (P.S. 122) 12th Night (Juilliard), Chuck Mee's Perfect Wedding (NYU Grad), Frog & Toad (Dorset Theatre Festival).
Ms. Bersley received her MFA in Directing from Syracuse, focusing on international and cultural influences on an interdisciplinary theatre. She currently teaches at Princeton University and is a Drama League Fellow. Ms. Bersley is currently writing an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which she will direct & choreograph for Dorset Theatre Festival this summer.
As a freelance director, Ms. Bersley adapts stories and books for the stage, devises original work through ensemble collaboration, and directs classics, musicals and operas through these approaches for schools and theatres such as NYU, Juilliard, Princeton, Purchase Rep Theatre, College Light Opera Co., Fringe Festival, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Syracuse Stage, and The Ontological Theatre. Ms. Bersley formerly ran the Youth Conservatory Program at McCarter Theatre and continues serving as a teaching artist for various organizations such as TheatreWorks USA, Broadway Classroom, Second Stage Theatre and RoundAbout Theatre. |
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 Mark Bruckner (Composer, Music Director, Vocal Coach and Sound Designer) – Brooklyn-based composer, music director, musician and teaching artist, Mark Bruckner has received commissions from colleges, universities, and producing organizations across the country to compose, direct music, and create sound designs for classic, contemporary and new plays and musicals. His sound sculptures, fabricated from found objects and industrial discards, have been installed throughout the Midwest and on the East Coast.
He has been a resident music director and sound designer for Iowa Repertory Theater for 19 seasons, where he has created music and soundscapes for the works of such renowned playwrights as Sarah Ruhl, David Lindsey Abaire, Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, Beth Henley, August Wilson, Lanford Wilson, Tina Howe and Tom Stoppard, to name a few. In NYC he has composed music and designed sound for several companies including The Women’s Project, Circle Repertory Theatre and Circle East, Imua Theatre, LaMama, Algonquin Theatre Productions, and the Workshop Theatre.
The core focus of his work as a theatre artist is on multicultural theatre and the development of works which give expression to the diverse visions and under-represented communities within society. His music for hip-hop jazz sextet was featured in the Off-Broadway premiere of Levy Lee Simon’s God, The Crackhouse and The Devil. His chamber opera, Krasang Tree, based on the life and writings of Cambodian poet U Sam Oeur, received a critically acclaimed production at Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis. As a teaching artist for the Roundabout Theatre and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mr. Bruckner has taught songwriting, intercultural music, and musical theatre workshops at schools throughout the NYC area. He is a frequent guest artist with the Brooklyn College Theatre Department; where he most recently composed a score for their production of Stephen Adly Giurgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and provided percussion and choral direction for the Tempest by William Shakespeare.
As a performer, Mr. Bruckner has worked with such internationally acclaimed musicians as percussionist Steven Schick, Afro-Cuban pianist/music director Sonny Bravo, Cambodian master musician Bun Loeung and the New International Trio, and the new music ensemble, Zeitgeist. His vocal coaching clients have worked on and off-Broadway, in regional theatres throughout the country and on film and television. Mr. Bruckner was nominated by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Best Original Music for his work as composer-lyricist and music director for Same Train, a spoken word musical created in collaboration with playwright Levy Lee Simon and director, Mary Beth Easley. Following a critically acclaimed showcase production in 2008, Same Train will be moving to an off-Broadway house in the 2009-10 season.
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 Alex Correia is currently the Director in Residency for the INTAR Actors' Collective where he directed 365 Plays/ 365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks and Thorny Bushes, a Staged Radio Novella, written by INTAR Playwrights Group. In INTAR's New Works Lab he directed plays by Desi Moreno-Penson, Cusi Cram, Mando Alvardo, and Mariana Carreno. Some of his Directing Credits include: The Woman by Michael John Garces for the 24hr Plays Company; Dwarfs by Harold Pinter and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop; I Am Yours by Judith Thompson at Center Stage (NY); and Othello by William Shakespeare at the John Houseman Studio Theater (NY). Assistant Director credits include: assisting Gregory Boyd on Design for Living by Noel Coward at Williamstown Theater Festival, Andrei Serban on Lysistrata by Aristophanies at A.R.T. (Boston), Christopher Bayes on Scapin by Moliere at the Intiman Theater (Seattle) and The Court Theater (Chicago), and Andrei Belgrader on King Stag by Carlo Gozzi at The Juilliard School (NY). Alex Correia was a fellowship recipient of The Artist Diploma Program for Theater Directors at the Juilliard School (2000-2003). At Juilliard his directing projects included: Appreciation by Francine Volpe, Pericles by William Shakespeare, Road to Nirvana by Arthur Kopit, and his Directing Thesis was A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. As a teaching artist, he has taught Scene Study, Acting Technique, Improvisation/Theater Games, and a Shakespeare Workshop at the West Palm Children's Theater in Florida, the Fledgling Film Camp in Vermont, and Vermont Arts Imstitute in Lyndonville, Vermont. |
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