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CAREY PERLOFF (Director)<\/strong> recently celebrated her 20th year as artistic director of A.C.T., where she most recently directed Arcadia, Elektra (co-produced by the Getty Villa in Malibu), Endgame and Play, Scorched, The Homecoming, Tosca Cafe (co-created with choreographer Val Caniparoli and recently toured Canada), and Racine's Ph\u00e8dre in a co-production with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Known for directing innovative productions of classics and championing new writing for the theater, Perloff has also directed for A.C.T. Jos\u00e9 Rivera's Boleros for <\/em>the Disenchanted<\/em>; the world premieres of Philip Kan Gotanda's After the War<\/em> (A.C.T. commission) and her own adaptation (with Paul Walsh) of A Christmas Carol<\/em>; the American premieres of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love<\/em> and Indian Ink<\/em> and Harold Pinter's Celebration<\/em>; A.C.T.\u2013commissioned translations\/adaptations of Hecuba<\/em>, The <\/em>Misanthrope<\/em>, Enrico IV<\/em>, Mary Stuart<\/em>, Uncle Vanya<\/em>, A Mother<\/em>, and The Voysey Inheritance<\/em> (adapted by David Mamet); the world premiere of Leslie Ayvazian's Singer's Boy<\/em>; and major revivals of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore<\/em>, The <\/em>Government Inspector, Happy End<\/em> (including a critically acclaimed cast album recording), A Doll's House<\/em>, Waiting for Godot<\/em>, The Three <\/em>Sisters<\/em>, The Threepenny Opera<\/em>, Old Times<\/em>, The <\/em>Rose Tattoo<\/em>, Antigone<\/em>, Creditors<\/em>, The Room<\/em>, Home<\/em>, The Tempest<\/em>, and Stoppard's Rock 'n'<\/em>Roll<\/em>, Travesties<\/em>, The Real Thing<\/em>, Night and \ufeff<\/em>Day<\/em>, and Arcadia<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Perloff 's work for A.C.T. also includes Marie Ndiaye'sHilda<\/em>, the world premieres of Marc Blitzstein's No for <\/em>an Answer<\/em> and David Lang\/Mac Wellman's The Difficulty of Crossing a Field<\/em>, and the West Coast premiere of her own play The <\/em>Colossus of Rhodes<\/em> (Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist). Her play Luminescence Dating <\/em>premiered in New York at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, was co-produced by A.C.T. and Magic Theatre, and is published by Dramatists Play Service. Kinship<\/em> was developed at the Perry-Mansfield New Play Festival and at New York Stage and Film (2013); Waiting for <\/em>the Flood<\/em> has received workshops at A.C.T., New York Stage & Film, and Roundabout Theatre Company. Higher<\/em>, was developed at New York Stage and Film and presented at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2010; it won the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award and received its world premiere in February 2012 in San Francisco.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Her one-act The Morning <\/em>After<\/em> was a finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Perloff has collaborated as a director on new plays by many notable writers, including Gotanda, Nilo Cruz, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Robert O'Hara. Before joining A.C.T., Perloff was artistic director of Classic Stage Company in New York, where she directed the world premiere of Ezra Pound's Elektra<\/em>, the American premiere of Pinter's Mountain Language<\/em>, and many classic works. Under Perloff 's leadership, CSC won numerous OBIE Awards, including the 1988 OBIE for artistic excellence. In 1993, she directed the world premiere of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's opera The Cave<\/em> at the Vienna Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Music. A recipient of France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the National Corporate Theatre Fund's 2007 Artistic Achievement Award, Perloff received a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in classics and comparative literature from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford. She was on the faculty of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for seven years and teaches and directs in the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program. Perloff is on the Board of the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Sarasota, Florida, and is the proud mother of Lexie and Nicholas.<\/p>\r\n","website":"","alt":null}