style over substance: dara weinberg: blog

an investigation of forms theatrical and otherwise

  • The annual Indy Convergence awaits you.

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  • Projects:

    May: NYC through May 9. Developing a script about the Antioch College student strike of 1973.
    May 9-18: Vacation.
    Memorial Day Weekend: San Antonio & Brownsville.
    End of May: Vancouver.

    June: Travel down West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Teaching another chorus workshop on a new subtopic: not movement, but the choral voice.

Production History

Directing - theater:
(200 8)
13 Ways Of Looking At The Chorus (Indy Convergence, Wheeler Arts Community, Indianapolis, IN)
(2007)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Met Theater, Los Angeles, CA)
(2006)
Brandohead (Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, CA)
A Vast Wreck (Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, CA)
(2003)
Human Bombing (Berliner Compagnie, DE)
(2001)
Clytemnestra Speaks / Cassandra Responds (Stanford University)
Faust, Part 1 (Stanford University)
(2000)
Beowulf (Harvard-Westlake School)
(1999)
Lysistrata (Harvard-Westlake School)
The Fifteen-Minute Odyssey (Cornell University TASP)

Assistant Directing:
(200 8)
Sometimes A Great Notion (Portland Center Stage, dir. Aaron Posner)
Lydia (Denver Center, dir. Juliette Carrillo)
(2007)
Golda’s Balcony (TheatreWorks, dir. Aaron Davidman)
Tartuffe (OSF, dir. Peter Amster)
Romeo & Juliet (OSF, dir. Bill Rauch)
My Wandering Boy (SCR, dir. Bill Rauch)
(2006)
The Stones (Kirk Douglas Theatre, dir. Corey Madden)
(2005)
Eight Songs For A Mad King (Jacaranda Concert Series, dir. Ted Walch & Mark Hilt)

Choreography:
(2006)
AC/DC’s Back In Black: A Dance-Theater Extravaganza (Serial Killers @ Sacred Fools)
(2005)
The Threepenny Opera (West Bay Opera, dir. Ken Tigar)
Don Giovanni (West Bay Opera, dir. Ken Tigar)

Directing - film & video:
(2003)
Who Killed Elliot Weisenheimer (live-action, 10 min) Stanford Film Society
The Misfortunes of an Arrogant Child (stop-motion, 2 min) Stanford Film Society

Improvised Choral Theater Workshops Taught:
to professional actors
(200 8)
Indy Convergence
(2007)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Met Theater (CA)
Many Hats Collaboration (OR) (8/07, 10/07)
Traveling Jewish Theater (CA, 11/07)
(2006)
Met Theater
Theater of NOTE
to students
(200 8) Harvard-Westlake School
(2006) Harvard-Westlake School
(2005) Harvard-Westlake School
(2004) Harvard-Westlake School, Stanford University
(2001) San Francisco Mime Troupe Summer Workshop

Readings directed:
(2007)
Current by Aaron Henne
(2006)
Resolver by Chris Danowski
Eye Mouth Graffiti Bodyshop by Ron Allen

Adaptations & Scripts
(200 8)
13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE CHORUS (one-act version)
(2001)
CLYTEMNESTRA SPEAKS/CASSANDRA RESPONDS
GILGAMESH
(2000)
FAUST, PART 1
(1999)
LYSISTRATA
BEOWULF
THE SEVEN FACES OF EVIL (one-act)
THE FIFTEEN-MINUTE ODYSSEY

Miscellaneous:
Dramaturg - ASSASSINS, Sight Unseen Theater Company (2007)
Rehearsal stage manager - THE THREEPENNY OPERA, Open Fist Theater Company (2006)
Stage manager - THE CHEKHOV MACHINE, Open Fist Theater Company (2006)
Managing director - HONOUR, Matrix Theater (2005)
Running props/ASM - BOLD GIRLS, Matrix Theater (2004)

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