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​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.
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  • "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