Director Micki Selvitella
Micki Selvitella is a director, artist and educator. In
Portland, she was Education Director at Portland Center Stage,
and Special Project Coordinator at
Artists Rep,
as well as working with The Haven Project and
Northwest Children's Theatre
and School. She has taught at several universities around the country, most
recently as Director of Theatre at Pacific University
(Forest Grove, OR), and Interim Director of Opera Theatre at Northern Arizona
University (Flagstaff, AZ). She was also Artistic Director of
Pittsburgh New Voices (Pittsburgh, PA). Local directing projects include
Boston Marriage and Stones in His Pockets for CoHo Productions,
and The Visit and The Servant of Two Masters at
Pacific
University. She is a graduate of the Yale School of
Drama, and holds an MFA in Directing from
Ohio University.
She is also a Fulbright scholar (Taiwan), with a special interest in
Classical Asian Theatre.
About The Playwright
Wendy Wasserstein is seen by many as the voice of a generation. She grew up in Brooklyn and
Manhattan, was educated at Mount Holyoke College and Yale Drama School, and
has become best known for her simultaneously funny and thought-provoking plays.
Her off-Broadway play Uncommon Women and Others, about eight Holyoke
women facing adulthood at the height of the women’s movement, was produced at
the Phoenix Theatre in 1978.
In 1988, Ms. Wasserstein was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the New York
Drama Critics Circle Prize, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics
Circle Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Tony Award for her
play, The Heidi Chronicles.
Wasserstein's talents are not limited to writing plays. She is also the
author of a children's book, Pamela's First Musical, about a young girl's
first theater experience; and Bachelor Girls, a collection of
her New York Woman essays (a magazine she served as a contributing editor
for). She has even taken on the role of
librettist for New York City Opera and San Francisco Opera. She has taught at
Columbia University and New York University, and holds an Honorary Doctorate
from Mt. Holyoke College.
Ms. Wasserstein currently lives in New York City with her daugher, Lucy Jane.
Sources:
Random House Vintage Books
The Broadway Theatre Archive
Hudson Valley Writers Center
Director Micki Selvitella
