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ADRIANA BAER

STAGE DIRECTOR

PRODUCTIONS

CLASSICS

Comedy of Errors & Julius Caesar** / William Shakespeare / The Acting Company^^
Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare / Columbia Stages
Woyzeck^ / Georg Büchner / The Cutting Ball Theater
No Exit^ / Jean-Paul Sartre / The Cutting Ball Theater
The Maids / Jean Genet / The Cutting Ball Theater
Seagull / Anton Chekhov / Studio Theatre (New York)
A Streetcar Named Desire / Tennessee Williams / Schapiro Theatre (New York)
The Hairy Ape / Eugene O’Neill / Schapiro Theatre
midsummer (dreaming) / William Shakespeare / Studio Theatre

CONTEMPORARY

Stage Door / Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufmam / Atlantic Theater Company Acting School
Killing Time: a cabaret of a criminal mind* / original work with music / the cell
Between Mouthfuls / Alan Ayckbourn / Atlantic Theater Company Acting School
Fly Season* / John McKinney / WorkShop Theater
Tender Was The Night* / Jeffrey James Keyes / Studio Theatre
The Suicide of the Glutton* / Jason Platt / Studio Theatre

OPERA & MUSIC

Madame White Snake / Cerise Lim Jacobs, Zhou Long / Beijing Music Festival / Associate Dir.
Madame White Snake* / Cerise Lim Jacobs, Zhou Long / Opera Boston / Assistant Dir.
MLK, Jr. Concert / Boston Children’s Chorus / ABC networks (national) / Staging Director

WORKSHOPS & READINGS

CLASSICS

Danton’s Death / Georg Büchner / The Cutting Ball Theater
The Rover / Aphra Behn / The Cutting Ball Theater
Sphinx+Strawman, Murderer Hope of Women / Oskar Kokoschka / The Cutting Ball Theater

NEW PLAYS

The Hundred Flowers Project / Christopher Chen / Lark New Play Development Center
Tender / Jeffrey James Keyes / Boomerang Theatre First Flight
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls… / Caridad Svich / The Cutting Ball Theater
Phoenix Flower / Amy Claussen / Primary Stages
Wreckage / Caridad Svich / Highwire Theatre
Sweet Maladies / Zakiyyah Alexander / Ensemble Studio Theatre
Sweet Maladies / Zakiyyah Alexander / Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Girl Triptych / Janet Allard / The Cutting Ball Theater

*world premier ^award (see below)
**upcoming ^^Staff Repertory Director (2011-12)

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

Paradise Lost / Clifford Odets / Oregon Shakespeare Festival / Libby Appel
The Circle / W. Somerset Maugham / American Conservatory Theatre / Mark Lamos
Restoration Comedy / Amy Freed / California Shakespeare Theater / Sharon Ott

OTHER

Associate Artistic Director / The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco, CA / 2004 – 2007

AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS

- Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
- Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab West (Los Angeles)
- Pulitzer Prize for music awarded to Zhou Long for Madame White Snake (2011) (Associate Director for the world premier at Opera Boston and the Beijing International Music Festival 2010)
- Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award for Best Direction: Woyzeck 2007
- No Exit Named in the Top 10 Stage Productions of 2005 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Awards for The Cutting Ball during tenure include Best of the Bay 2007, Best of San Francisco 2006

EDUCATION

Columbia University, New York, NY
MFA: Theater Directing
Mentors include Anne Bogart, Robert Woodruff, and Brian Kulick

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
BA: Liberal Arts (Theater, Arts Administration, Literature)