Rachel Chavkin
Rachel Chavkin is an American stage director and Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based The TEAM, which was started in 2004.[1]
Career
Chavkin has a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (2008).[2]
She has directed and created many works for The TEAM, including award-winning and internationally touring plays, such as Roosevelvis, Mission Drift and Architecting.[3][4]
She directed Three Pianos which ran Off-Off-Broadway at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in March 2010[5] and then at the New York Theatre Workshop in December 2010 to January 2011.[6] She won the 2010 Obie Award, Obie Special Citation for Three Pianos.[7][8]
She is the director of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which ran Off-Broadway in 2013-2014.[9] Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 received the 2013 Obie Award, Special Citation.[10]
She directed The Royale by Marco Ramirez, Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center, which opened in March 2016.[11][12] She was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for directing The Royale.[13] She received the 2016 Obie Award, Direction, for The Royale.[14]
She directed the folk opera Hadestown, written by Anais Mitchell, which opened officially at the Off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop on May 23, 2016.[15] She is directing Anything That Gives Off Light at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2016, in a co-production with The TEAM and The National Theatre of Scotland.[16]
Style
In an article in American Theatre, Diep Tran noted that she has a "diverse slate of work" united with "a distinctively multisensory sensibility.... When she staged Meg Miroshnik’s The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Yale Repertory Theatre, she included a live female punk band; her work with the TEAM routinely blends text, video, and pervasive sound design. 'She can squeeze a lot into a small space, and yet it feels epic and sprawling,' said Ars Nova artistic director Jason Eagan."[17]
References
- ^ "The TEAM. Rachel Chavkin" theteamplays.org, accessed May 18, 2016
- ^ "People Who Make Theatre: Rachel Chavkin of THE TEAM". HB Studio. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
- ^ "Meet the Directors". The New York Times. 3 February 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
- ^ "COIL 2012: Rachel Chavkin on The TEAM's "Mission Drift"". Culturebot. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
- ^ Horwitz, Andy. Three Pianos culturebot.org, March 7, 2010
- ^ Grode, Eric. "Taking Schubert for a Wild Joy Ride" The New York Times, December 1, 2010
- ^ Three Pianos lortel.org, accessed May 18, 2016
- ^ Gans, Andrew. " 'Circle Mirror Transformation', 'Aliens', Metcalf and More Win OBIE Awards" Playbill, May 17, 2010
- ^ "Staging a Sisterhood". The New York Times. 3 February 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
- ^ Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 lortel.org, accessed May 18, 2016
- ^ The Royale lortel.org, accessed May 18, 2016
- ^ The Royale lct.org, accessed May 18, 2016
- ^ Viagas, Robert (April 28, 2016). "'She Loves Me' Leads Drama Desk Nominations". Playbill.
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "Winners Announced for 61st Annual Obie Awards" Playbill, May 23, 2016
- ^ Clement, Olivia. " Hadestown Opens Tonight at New York Theatre Workshop" Playbill, May 23, 2016
- ^ "Edinburgh" theteamplays.org, accessed May 18, 2016
- ^ Diep Tran. "Rachel Chavkin’s Great Comet of a Career" American Theatre, September 18, 2015