SELECTED DIRECTING CREDITS
URBAN MOMFARE, A New Musical NY International Fringe Festival
4 Stars and Critics Pick…Time Out NY NY Fringe Festival Best Musical Award DINAH WAS Willamstown Theatre Festival World Premier With Yvette Freeman, Victor Love, Bernie Passeltiner AS YOU LIKE IT Williamstown Theatre Festival With Madeleine Potter, Victor Slezak ENOUGH ROPE Williamstown Theatre Festival World Premier presentation. With Elaine Stritch Produced with the Clark Art Institute. EDITH PIAF LIVES Joe’s Pub, The Public Theatre Co-created with Flo Ankah BAD DATES City Theatre Pittsburgh Premier. With Tasha Lawrence TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE City Theatre Pittsburgh Premier. With Bernie Passeltiner & Dan Krell THE GODDESS Looking Glass Theatre Company World Premier TEIBELE AND HER DEMON Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh ALBERT THE MOUSE Manhattan Class Company With Robert Lupone. PAINTING X'S ON THE MOON Crossover Productions/Kraine Theater World Premier With Vincent Pastore, Jennifer Esposito, Sean Patrick Riley THE BABY DANCE The Barrow Group With Core Artists Ensemble FAST & FAB I, II, & III The Barrow Group Festival Director of New Works GANGSTER APPAREL Gloucester Stage Produced by Israel Horowitz. YOUR RACE AND MINE La Mama East Coast Premier MY FATHER’S WAR Theatre Squared World Premier CENNTENNIAL CASTING Triad Theatre With Lou Martini SHRINK Laurie Beechman Theatre ABRASIVE FAIRYTALES Laurie Beechman Theatre New York Premier JUMPING OFF THE FRIDGE Theater/Theatre, Los Angeles LA Premier SELECTED ASSISTING CREDITS ANGELS IN AMERICA Asst. to Tony Kushner Mark Taper Forum UNFINISHED STORIES Gordon Davidson, Dir. Mark Taper Forum MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Gordon Davidson, Dir. L.A. Opera WINGS Michael Maggio, Dir. Joseph Papp Public Theatre, HENCEFORWARD Tom Moore, Dir. Mark Taper Forum MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT Tom Moore, Dir. Williamstown Theatre Festival SELECTED READINGS IN A HEARTBEAT 29 Hour Reading, NYC With Lena Hall SUBPRIME 29 Hour Reading, NYC With Annaleigh Ashford, Celia Keenan Bolger, Geneva Carr, Emily Bergl, Julian Cihi, Alison Wright CARRAVAGGIO The Cherry Lane With Federico Castelluccio And so many more readings, that if I had a nickle…! TELEVISION Observing/Training Director THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN NBC Bob Berlinger, Dir. LIFE AND...STUFF NBC Andy Cadiff, Dir. USA HIGH USA Network Frank Bonner, Dir. SECRET VOWS CBS Movie of the Week, Peter Hunt, Dir. Assistant to Mr. Hunt; training for single camera/film. SELECTED AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS Board of Governors: Theatre League Alliance; Broadway on Sunset Boris Sagal Directing Grant Recipient Usual Suspect, New York Theatre Workshop Director, New Dramatists University Regional Theater Association Finalist EDUCATION Masters Degree New York University Designed my own Masters in Elements of Directing. Thesis: “Stanislavski On One Foot: Acting Technique for Non-Acting Theatre Professionals.” Accompanying Paper: “Transformation of the Actor’s Use of Self in Contemporary Performance.” B.A. Wesleyan UniversityHonors in Theater; Honors Thesis Production in Directing: THE MASTER BUILDER. Honors Thesis Paper: "The Effect of Norwegian Folklore on Scandinavian Art and Theater." |
- "Performers mesh easily under Alice Jankell's lively well-modulated direction." -The Boston Globe
- "Director Alice Jankell carries it all off flawlessly with thorough, colorful believability and such naturalness..." - The Front Weekly
- "Director Alice Jankell leads the play and the audience...with sensitivity and invisibility allowing the play to ebb, flow and race ahead seemingly on it's own." - Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
- "Alice Jankell's direction pulls everything together for a splendid evening." - Talkin' Broadway Regional Theatre News
- "...credit to the very wonderful work of Director Alice Jankell and her cast." - Pittsburgh City Paper
- "Directed with delicacy by Alice Jankell." - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- "The velvet glove direction of Alice Jankell." - City Paper