Adriana Baer is a freelance stage director based in New York City. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area where she grew up surrounded by a vibrant arts-and-culture scene, she takes her inspiration from visual art, modern and classical dance, literature, architecture, and music. She most often directs classics, new plays, and new translations and adaptations of classical texts.

New York directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seagull, The Hairy Ape, Miss Julie, new play premiers including Killing Time co-conceived with Phil Callen and Kevin Dutcher, Tender was the Night by Jeffrey James Keyes and The Suicide of the Glutton by Jason Platt, and recently, Stage Door and Between Mouthfuls for the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Other directing credits include Woyzeck (Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Direction), The Maids, and No Exit at The Cutting Ball Theater (San Francisco) where she was the Associate Artistic Director during the 2004-2007 seasons. During her tenure at The Cutting Ball, the company received four “Best of San Francisco” awards, including one for No Exit. Adriana is the Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company’s 2012 national tour.

New play development, workshops and festivals include Sweet Maladies by Zakiyyah Alexander (Ensemble Studio Theatre and Bay Area Playwrights Festival), Girl Triptych by Janet Alexander (Risk is This… The Cutting Ball Theater New Experimental Plays Festival), Wrecked (Highwire Theater) and Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that was Once Her Heart (Vanguardia: New Latino Experimental Play Festival at The Cutting Ball Theater) by Caridad Svich, Michael Archangel by Joe Lauinger, Phoenix Flower by Amy Claussen (Primary Stages and Penguin Rep), and Christopher Chen’s The Hundred Flowers Project at The Lark Play Development Center. Currently, Adriana is in development with Phoenix Flower, Tender by Jeffrey James Keyes, and a new translation by Caroline Hewitt of Rose (The Australian Night) by Noelle Renaude.

Adriana was the assistant director to Robert Woodruff on the world premier of the Pulitzer Prize winning opera Madame White Snake for Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theater. She directed the remount of the production at the 2010 Beijing Music Festival (Century Theater, Beijing). She was the staging director for the nationally televised Boston Children’s Chorus Martin Luther King, Jr. Day concert (ABC network). Additionally, Adriana has worked with The Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, SF Circus Center/Pickle Circus, and Theatre Communications Group. Assistant Directing work includes American Conservatory Theater (assistant director to Mark Lamos), California Shakespeare Theater (assistant director to Sharon Ott), and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (assistant director to Libby Appel).

As a teaching artist, Adriana has worked at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Columbia University, Vector Theatre Conservatory, Sarah Lawrence College Theater in the Schools, and Boston Children’s Chorus where she currently teaches acting and performance skills. Adriana is the President and Director of Programs of Central Coaching, an organization which offers coaching for actors pursuing admission into MFA, BFA, Arts Magnet High-Schools and Professional Training Programs.

Affiliations: SDC, Lincoln Center Directors Lab West, The Cutting Ball Theater Associate Artist. BA: Sarah Lawrence College. MFA in Directing: Columbia University.