Keeping up with the alumni of The Drama League Directors Project

 

As we come to the season’s close, let’s take a moment to appreciate all our alumni accomplished. A record seven alumni had shows on Broadway this year! Alumni receiving Best Director accolades include three Tony nominees (Pam MacKinnon, Diane Paulus and Alex Timbers), two Drama Desk nominees (Christopher Ashley and Ed Sylvanus Iskandar), an Outer Critics Circle nominee (Mark Brokaw) and Lucille Lortel winner Sam Gold!

The Drama League Awards provided two wonderful moments for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Diane Paulus received the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing, and Audra McDonald was named the Distinguished Performance Award winner. See what the excitement’s about! (porgyandbessonbroadway.com)

Ed Sylvanus Iskandar was honored with a Drama Desk nomination for his production of Sean Graney’s These Seven Sicknesses, now back by popular demand! Do not miss this opportunity to see it! Running to July 1 only! (theflea.org)

Davis McCallum directs the new musical, February House, about a bohemian commune in 1940’s New York which housed Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden and Gypsy Rose Lee. Now at The Public Theater through June 10. (publictheater.org)

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s newest production, 3C, mixes 1970’s sitcoms, 1950’s existentialist comedy, Chekhov, and disco anthems, into a “terrifying, yet amusing, look at a culture as it teeters on the brink of ruin.” Jackson Gay directs David Adjmi’s new play, now through June 14. (rattlestick.org)

Second Stage’s New Plays Uptown series has introduced audiences to great new writers. Their newest production, The Bad Guys, is a comic look at a generation at war with what it means to “man up.” Hal Brooks directs through June 17. (2st.com)

Michael Perlman directs his timely new play, From White Plains, which asks who speaks for a victim of bullying when he is no longer here to speak for himself. At the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center through June 10. (faultlinetheatre.com)

Jaime Castañeda brings playwright Fernanda Coppel to the Atlantic Theater Company for the first time. Her play Chimichangas and Zoloft examines the search for happiness and the mysteries of sexuality through the eyes of two brazen teenagers. Performances continue through June 24. (atlantictheater.org)

Anne Kauffman will inaugurate Lincoln Center’s newest theatre with the world premiere of Slowgirl by Greg Pierce. A young woman flees to her uncle’s Costa Rican retreat to escape the aftermath of a horrific accident. The production runs June 4 to July 18. (lct.org)

David Snyder was appointed Arena Stage’s Director of Artistic Programming. He will be responsible for implementing the artistic vision of Arena Stage. Congratulations David! (arenastage.org)