Othello

A.R.T.: Othello, All the Way (IRNE Award, Best Director), Fingersmith (IRNE Award, Best Director). Currently Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (since 2007) and inaugural Artistic Director of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center; Founding Artistic Director, Cornerstone Theater Company (1986- 2006). Broadway: All the Way (winner of 2014 Tony Award for Best Play). New York: Night is a Room, Signature Theatre; The Clean House, Lincoln Center. Additional directing credits: world premieres by Lisa Loomer, Lynn Nottage, Robert Schenkkan, Bill Cain, Alison Carey, Culture Clash, Dan O’Brien, Sarah Ruhl, Jeff Whitty, and others, along with classical plays at Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage. TV: “Judging Amy.” Selective Awards: Fichandler Award, TCG Visionary Leadership, Margo Jones Award, U.S. Artists Fellowship, Leadership for a Changing World, Grammy nomination. Education: Harvard University.

A.R.T.: Othello, Fingersmith, All the Way. OSF (thirteen seasons, Associate Artistic Director): The Book of Will; Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Scenic and Costume Design); UniSon; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Twelfth Night; The Wiz; Fingersmith; Long Day’s Journey into Night; Head Over Heels; All the Way; The Great Society; A Streetcar Named Desire; King Lear; Seagull; The Imaginary Invalid; The Language Archive; Hamlet; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Throne of Blood; Equivocation; Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Costume Design: The Tenth Muse; The Imaginary Invalid; Othello. Broadway: All the Way. New York: Throne of Blood, BAM; The Clean House, Lincoln Center. Regional: Artist Rep, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Kennedy Center, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage. Oregon Arts Commissioner; Member, Board of Directors, Theatre Communications Group. Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego.

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (three seasons): UniSon; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; The Wiz. Broadway: American Son, Children of A Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway: Slave Play, NYTW; Collective Rage…, School Girls…, MCC; Sugar in Our Wounds, MTC; Fireflies, Tell Hector I Miss Him, Marie & Rosetta, Atlantic; Bella: An American Tall Tale, Playwrights Horizons; The Royale, Lincoln Center; Ugly Lies the Bone, Roundabout. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Steppenwolf; Denver Center; California Shakespeare; La Jolla Playhouse; Berkeley Rep; Baltimore Center Stage; Arena Stage; Cleveland Playhouse; Signature Theatre; McCarter Theatre; Dallas Theatre Center. Television: Comedy Central; FOX Shortcoms. Awards: Recipient of Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Jeff Awards; two Drama Desk Nominations. Education: MFA Yale School of Drama.

A.R.T.: Debut. OSF (two seasons): Shakespeare in Love. New York: Yours Unfaithfully, A Day by the Sea, Mint Theatre; Hypeman, The Flea. Regional: Native Gardens, Harvey, Blithe Spirit, Guthrie Theater; Smart People, Native Gardens, Arena Stage; The Roommate, Steppenwolf; Misery, Cincinnati Playhouse; Pipeline, Indiana Repertory Theatre; Fun Home, Baltimore Center Stage; Noises Off!, Syracuse Stage; Fences, Long Wharf, McCarter Theatre; Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, Detroit ’67, PlayMakers Rep; Two Trains Running, Arden Theatre; Outside Mullingar, Arizona Theatre Company; The Piano Lesson, Olney Theatre Center; Fly, Florida Studio Theatre; Common Enemy, Red, Triad Stage; A Raisin in the Sun, Thousand Pines, Westport Country Playhouse; Two Trains Running, Two River Theater Company; Everybody, The Glass Menagerie, black odyssey, Fences, Cal Shakes; Hamlet, Pippin, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre.

A.R.T.: Othello, Fingersmith. OSF (eleven seasons): Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Odyssey, Great Expectations, Fingersmith, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Streetcar Named Desire, King Lear, The White Snake, As You Like It, August: Osage County, Ghost Light, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Merchant of Venice, Equivocation, The Clay Cart. Broadway: 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife, Metamorphoses. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass Theatre Company (Associate Artist), Steppenwolf, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co, A.C.T., Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Lincoln Center, McCarter Theatre, Cal Shakes (Associate Artist). Awards: Multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards and Citations, Ovation Award, Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Barrymore Award, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations for composition and sound design.

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (two seasons): Romeo and Juliet, Off the Rails. Off-Broadway: The Exonerated. The Culture Project; Tune in Festival, Park Avenue Armory. New York: Happy Days, The Flea; Patience, Fortitude, and other Antidepressants, INTAR; Nada Que Declarar, Danspace; Veils, Vestiges and the Aesthetics of Hidden Things, Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse; South Coast Rep; Marin Theatre Company; Center Theatre Group; LA Opera; East West Players; Cornerstone Theater Company; Ebony Repertory Theatre. International: Schick Machine, Hong Kong Cultural Centre; Garden of Deadly Sound, Hungarian National Theatre. Awards: Lucille Lortel Award, Unique Theatrical Experience; L.A. Critics Choice Award, Best Lighting Design; Best Projection Design nomination, Stage Raw; Best Lighting nomination, Ovation!.

A.R.T: Othello. OSF (one season, 2018 Phil Killian Directing Fellow): Manahatta. Regional: Musical Café/Ashby Stage; Exit Theatre/San Francisco Fringe Festival; Brava Theater Center; PianoFight/ShortLived; Salvage Vanguard Theater/Echo Players; Playwrights Foundation; Facebook Research; Microsoft Research; San Anselmo Playhouse; University Theatre, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Shotgun Players. Casting: Shotgun Players, StageWrite, Don’t Even Tripp Productions, Echo Players. Awards: Native American AO Fellow (UW-Madison); Native Lawton Grant Scholar; Best of Madison: Featured Director (Helen); Charlene M. Wackman Theatre Excellence Award; Helen Hermann Memorial Theatre Excellence Scholarship; Ken Lempart Memorial Scholarship in Directing. Teaching: UW-Madison; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; International School of Asia Karuizawa, Japan. Education: MFA, Directing and Acting (UW-Madison); Moscow Art Theatre USA; BA, Theatre and Vocal Performance (UW-Whitewater).

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (six seasons): Assistant Stage Manager: Othello, Manahatta, Julius Caesar, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Wiz. Production Assistant: Pericles, The Happiest Song Plays Last, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, The Tempest, Family Album, The Heart of Robin Hood, My Fair Lady. Regional: Willamette Shakespeare, Southern Oregon University, Northwest Dance Theatre, June Taylor’s School of Dance, Portland Community College, Gingold Theatrical Group, Southern Oregon University. Resident technician, various productions 2009–2012, Portland Community College. Education: BFA, Southern Oregon University.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: We Live in Cairo; Barber Shop Chronicles; The Black Clown; HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Othello; ExtraOrdinary; Jagged Little Pill; Bedlam’s Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/​Training: Boston University College of Fine Arts (Summa cum laude).

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (twenty-one seasons): Production Stage Manager: Othello, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Stage Manager: Hamlet; Pericles; The Tempest; Richard III; A Streetcar Named Desire; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Animal Crackers; Henry V; The Language Archive; Julius Caesar; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter; The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler; As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard III; Twelfth Night; The Visit; Oedipus Complex; Romeo and Juliet; Richard II; Noises Off; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Life Is a Dream; Troilus and Cressida; Wit; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; El Paso Blue; Rosmersholm; Measure for Measure. Assistant Stage Manager: Timon of Athens; Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Folger Theatre, Group Theatre. Education: BA, University of Northern Colorado.

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (twenty-eight seasons, Resident Fight Director): Sense and Sensibility; Destiny of Desire; Oklahoma!; Snow in Midsummer; Henry V; Manahatta; The Way the Mountain Moved; Romeo and Juliet; The Book of Will; Love’s Labor’s Lost; Julius Caesar; Shakespeare in Love; UniSon; Off the Rails; Hannah and the Dread Gazebo; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; The Odyssey; Hamlet; The Wiz; Richard II; Guys and Dolls; Fingersmith; Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land; Sweat; Pericles; Long Day’s Journey into Night; A Wrinkle in Time; The Comedy of Errors; Water by the Spoonful; Richard III; Into the Woods; Vietgone; Assistant fight director, 1994–2008; Resident Fight Director, 2008–2018. Broadway: Sweat (Drama Desk Award, Best Fight Choreography), Studio 54, Public Theater. Regional: Guthrie Theater; Portland Opera; Seattle Rep. Teaching: Certified associate instructor with Dueling Arts International.

A.R.T.: Othello, All the Way. OSF (thirteen seasons): over 30 productions including: Othello; Manahatta; Romeo and Juliet; The Book of Will; Love’s Labor’s Lost; The Way the Mountain Moved; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; Hannah and the Dread Gazebo; The Odyssey; Roe; The Wiz; Long Day’s Journey into Night; The Great Society; Water by the Spoonful; King Lear; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The White Snake; Seagull; Troilus and Cressida; All the Way. Broadway: All the Way. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival. International: Royal & Derngate Theatre, Royal National Theatre. Teaching: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Central School of Speech and Drama, Oxford School of Drama. Publications: Vocal Arts Workbook and DVD, Verbal Arts Workbook, Shakespeare Workbook and Video (all co-authored with David Carey). Education: MA, Voice Studies, The Central School of Speech and Drama, London; MFA, University of California at Irvine; BA, Harvard University.

A.R.T.: Othello; ExtraOrdinary; Jagged Little Pill; WARHOLCAPOTE; Burn All Night; The Night of the Iguana; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; Waitress; In the Body of the World; O.P.C. OSF: Debut. Broadway: Mary Stuart. Regional: New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage Company; Absurd Person Singular, Nora Theatre Company; Arms and the Man, Guthrie Theatre; A Christmas Carol, McCarter Theatre; The Foreigner, Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As head of Voice and Speech at A.R.T., Erika also teaches voice in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard as well as teaching public speaking skills across the university. Education: MA, Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; MFA, Acting, Brandeis University.

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (six seasons): Director: The Merry Wives of Windsor; Associate Director: Richard II, Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra; 2013 Phil Killian Directing Fellow; Assistant Director: The Unfortunates, Cymbeline. Regional: Romeo and Juliet; Antigone Project; A Civil War Christmas; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; The Piano Lesson; Othello; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; In the Blood; Steel Magnolias; Children of Eden; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Little Shop of Horrors; The Burial at Thebes; Medea; La Ronde. International: Scapin the Cheat, Anna Bella Eema, The Tempest, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Awards: 2016 Princess Grace Foundation Theatre Fellowship Award; Theatre Communications Group Leadership U, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Drama League Directors Project 2011 New York/Fall Directing Fellow. Education: MFA, Directing; MA, Dramatic Literature.

A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (thirty-one seasons): Dramaturg: nearly 50 Shakespeare productions as well as Equivocation, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The Cure at Troy, The School for Scandal, Arcadia. Regional: Southern Oregon University, Berkeley Rep, Marin Shakespeare Company. Acting: eighty-six productions of all Shakespeare’s thirty-eight plays, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe, San Jose Rep, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, A.C.T. Teaching: A.C.T.; Denver National Theatre Conservatory; Augusta College; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Santa Cruz; Town School in San Francisco; toured for 10 seasons with the OSF School Visit Program. Publications: After-Dinner Shakespeare, Shakespeare Insult Generator. Recordings: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and other books for Blackstone Audio.