A l e x   L i p p a r d
Director • Acting Teacher and Coach • Playwright





Resumé


DIRECTING (partial listing)
Jun. '06
The Gold Standard by Daniel Roberts
Irish Arts Center
Apr. '06
Cupid & Psyche by Joseph Fisher
Altered Stages
Mar. '06
Sake with the Haiku Geisha by Randall David Cook
Perry St. Theater
Oct. '05
DogMusic by Jess Platt (music) and Mark Masi (book/lyrics) [workshop] w/Deven May
AMAS Musical Theater
Sep. '05
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford, w/John Douglas Thompson and Jan Leslie Harding
Friendly Fire
Sep. '05
All We Can Handle by Andrew Dainoff [reading at New Work Now]
Public Theater
Apr. '05
Frankie by Daniel Roberts
Irish Arts Center
Oct. '04
Hecuba by Euripides, music by Allison Leyton-Brown, starring Kristin Linklater
45 Bleecker
Aug. '04
Moonchild by Maureen FitzGerald, with 2-time Emmy winner Heather Tom
Winner, 2004 Fringe Award for Excellence in Directing
FringeNYC
July '03
Amouse Bouche by A. Dainoff [reading] w/Shannon Burkett & David Harbour
Belt Theater
Mar. '03
Scenery by Ed Dixon [reading] w/Tony Roberts & Penny Fuller
Century Center
Nov. '02
All We Can Handle by A. Dainoff, starring Raul Esparza
Joe's Pub (remounted 6/03, Belt Theater)
Aug. '02
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
Shakespeare NJ
Jun. '02
Hecuba by Euripides [reading] w/Lynn Cohen & Peter Francis James
Actors Studio
May '02
Quarreling Ivans by Nikolai Gogol, adapt. Rob Rival
NYU
Feb. '02
Happy End by Brecht/Weill, adapt. Feingold
Columbia Univ.
Oct. '01
Mall Story by Stan Baker (book) and Sanford Cohen (music)
Cherry Lane
Oct. '01
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Century Center
Jun. '01
Home by Heather MacDonald (music/lyrics by Jody Lambert)
Dixon Place
Jan. '00
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, adapt. A. Lippard
Directors Company
Aug. '99
Tough Choices for the New Century by Jane Anderson
FringeNYC
Jan. '99
Rebel Women by Tom Babe w/Tom Babe
Ohio Theater
Nov. '98
Suffolk Square Irregulars by Daniel Owens w/Arthur French
Urban Stages
May '96
Gypsy by Laurents/Styne/Sondheim
Yale
RELATED EXPERIENCE
June '03
Member, 2003 Lincoln Center Directors Lab
Winter '03
Intern, The Shubert Organization (basic introduction to unions, contracts, producing issues)
Aug. '98
Assistant Director, Romeo and Juliet (dir. Dan Sullivan), Old Globe
Dec. '98
Assistant Director, Common Ground (dir. Bob Egan), Mark Taper Forum
Spring '98
Artistic Intern, New York Theater Workshop (Artistic Associates Jerry Manning and Linda Chapman)
Sep. '97
Assistant Director, Touch of the Poet (dir. Michael Kahn), Arena Stage
THEATER TRAINING
Directing
Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart, Robert Woodruff; Slava Dolgachev (Moscow Art Theater)
Acting
Michael Kahn (Shakespeare), Milton Katselas (Method); Kristin Linklater (Shakespeare); Misha Lobanov, Andrei Droznin (Moscow Art Theater); Earle Gister (master class at Yale)
EDUCATION/MISC
B.A. in Russian and Theater Studies, Yale University 5/96
M.F.A. in Directing at Columbia University 6/02
1998 Drama League Directing Fellow
Violin (15 years training); Fluent in Russian