Directing Plays, Directing People: A Collaborative Art - Softcover

Mary B. Robinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157525784X ISBN 13: 9781575257846

Publisher: Smith & Kraus, 2012

Synopsis

Mary B. Robinson

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About the Author:

In a career spanning more than three decades, Mary B. Robinson has directed more than sixty theater productions in New York City and around the country and has taught directing at Manhattan Theatre Club. She was the first recipient of the Alan Schneider Award in 1987, a national award in honor of the late director, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 1986 for her production of "Lemon Sky" and she won Philadelphia's Barrymore Award in 1995 for "Of Mice and Men." She is one of fifty directors profiled in the recent book "American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century." For the past fifteen years, she has taught directing at New York University (where she heads the undergraduate directing program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School), and Brooklyn College's MFA Program. She has directed many student productions, including Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," "Richard III," Troilus and Cressida" and "The Tempest," and Chekhov's "Three Sisters," "The Cherry Orchard," and "The Seagull," as well as Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy," Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Alice Childress's "Wedding Bank," at New York University's Graduate Acting Program, the Juilliard School, Rutgers University, Brooklyn College and Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU). For many years she was a board member of the labor union Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, playwright Erik Brogger, and their son, Chrtistopher.

Review:

Mary Robinson has taken her years on the boards and in the classroom and made a noteworthy contribution to books on stagecraft. "Directing Plays, Directing People" is more than a pithy nuts-and-bolts manual on directing, it is also a frank and entertaining memoir of a life in the theater. --- Donald Margulies, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

This is an incredibly smart, clear, accessible and comprehensive look into a director's process that feels more like an empowering conversation than a how-to book on directing. I felt welcomed into a very frank and down-to-earth discussion with Mary and her various collaborators. She is able to both demystify the art of directing while inspiring theater artists of all levels of experience. Anyone interested in making theater should read this...not just directors. --- Anne Kauffman, OBIE Award-winning director.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 157525784X
• ISBN 13: 9781575257846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187