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Lisa Milinazzo Director (914) 329-9121 [email protected] www.milinazzo.com Upcoming: Miracles Lost and Found premiere with Marla Mase, True Groove, NYC February 2017

FILM & TELEVISION THE QUERY, director, film short (2007 Cannes & Garden State Film Festival, 2008) ROCK THE PAINT, Assistant to the Producer, Vice President Wren Court Films (Winner Creative Promise Award Tribeca Film Festival; Best Film, Montclaire Film Festival) BEDFORD DIARIES, shadow-directed Whitney Ransick, Tom Fontana Producer, WB11 DIRECTING (THEATRICAL) 59E59 Street Theatre, Roebuck Theatricals, , NY The Collector, by John Fowles, adpt. Mark Healy (US premiere) Fundamental Theatre Project, Irish Arts Center, June, 2011; Edinburgh Fringe 3D HAMLET featuring: Alec Baldwin, Michael Emerson, Anthony Rapp & Richard Easton Littlewood International Theatre Group, 2013 Midtown International Theatre Festival, Workshop Theatre July/August 2013 SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT, written and directed by Lisa Milinazzo World Premiere WINNER! OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR AWARD BEST ENSEMBLE & OUTSTANDING ACTRESS AWARD nominee Connelly Theater, New York, NY THE BLACK MONK, Chekhov adaptation, playwright/director; co-writer, Dallas Brennan Premiere, Chekhov Now Festival, NY (with Marin Ireland) True Groove at 54 Below, New York, NY DIANA & NAVY & THE GOLDEN TOOTH, original Rock Musical by Phoebe Nir & Tomas Doncker, premiere Urban Stages, New York, NY WATER FROM THE MOON, Original Rock Musical by Rosemary Loar & Robert Atwood (premiere) Cornelia Street Café, New York, NY TRAVELS WITH MA OWN SELF featuring Deborah Latz Catskill Mountain Theatre Space, Palenville, NY (Littlewood International Theatre Group) A CLEARING IN THE WOODS, by Arthur Laurents Theatre Row, Studio Theatre, New York, NY PILLOWMAN, by Martin McDonough Culture Project, New York, NY I COULD NEVER LIVE HERE, by C.S. Hanson (staged reading) Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, NY I HAVE BEFORE ME A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT GIVEN ME BY A YOUNG LADY FROM RWANDA, by Sonja Linden St. Genesius Theatre, L.A. and The Actors’ Space, New York, NY. FOUND A PEANUT, Donald Margulies (James Burke, Entitled Entertainment, Producer) L.A. Weekly Award : Best Ensemble and Best Revival of the Year nom.*** Alice’s Fourth Floor, New York, NY (Suzanne Brinkley, Artistic Director) REEF AND PARTICLE, Eve Ensler * Origin Theatre Company, New York, NY BALTRP, by Xavier Durringer (American Premiere of French play, staged reading) GRYFHEAD, by Lucy Gough (American Premiere of Welsh play, staged reading) Here, NY. New York, NY (Kristin Marting, Artistic Director) LOUD IN MY HEAD, Eve Ensler, World Premiere* THE RESPECTFUL PROSTITUTE, Jean-Paul Sartre THE WITCH, (Chekhov), Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison translated. RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR, Joe Orton Gene Frankel Theatre, New York, NY LONELY CIRCUS BEAST, Amber Doswell Premiere H.B. Playwrights Foundation, New York, NY (Billy Cardin Artistic Director) HALLELUJAH ANYHOW, Alexandra Gersten Premiere With Amy Wright Tribeca Lab, New York, NY. (Al Remos, Artistic Director) CRIMINALS IN LOVE, George F. Walker New York Premiere ** THE CORRECTION, Scott Klavan World Premiere Schoolhouse Theatre, Croton Falls, NY (Lee Pope, Producer) REDWOOD CURTAIN, Lanford Wilson. ESCAPE FROM HAPPINESS, George F. Walker BURNING BRIGHT, John Steinbeck Axial Theatre Company, Quaker Church, Amawalk, NY (Howard Meyer, Artistic Director) BILLY BUBBLEHEAD, Tony Howarth World Premiere American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York (Jonathan Bolt, Company Artistic Director)

TRIBES, by Nina Raine* * THE NIGHT SEASON, by Rebecca Lenkiewicz* US FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS, Alan Premiere Ball THE THRILL OF LOVE, by Amanda Whittington* THE COURAGEOUS ONE, by Maxim Gorky American Premiere BETWEEN US, Joe Hortua* THE VEIL, by Connor McPherson* MEMORY OF WATER, Shelagh Stephenson* VERONICA’S ROOM, Ira Levin* THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Pinter * QUILTERS, Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek* HOUSE OF BERNADA ALBA, Lorca THE PRODIGAL, Jack Richardson CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov THE CONSTANT WIFE, Somerset Maugham TROJAN WOMEN, Euripides BIG LOVE, Charles Mee TRUST, Steven Dietz TONGUE OF A BIRD, by Ellen McLaughlin BURN THIS, Lanford Wilson* LYDIE BREEZE, John Guare BLUE WINDOW, Craig Lucas * ANNA IN THE TROPICS, Nilo Cruz* HOUSE OF YES, Wendy MacLeod * BETTER LIVING, George F. Walker VINEGAR TOM, Caryl Churchill* TIME AND THE CONWAYS, J.B. Priestly THE SHAPE OF THINGS, Neil Labute * BEGGARS IN THE HOUSE OF PLENTY, * Repertory Company Production Workshop Theatre, NY THE PERFECT PLAN, John McKinney World Premiere *” Slain in the Spirit…shows us creatively, brilliantly and Lee Strasberg Institute, New York, NY hauntingly all the culprits…” Constance Rogers, usher nonsense BLUE ROOM, by David Hare Fleetwood Stage, New Rochelle, NY (Lou Arlt, Artistic Director) **“Milinazzo and the cast galvanize … “Criminals In Love” MASS APPEAL, Bill Davis into comic life…” DJR Bruckner, New York Times Playwrights Horizons (John Wolpe, Producer)New York, NY STATEN ISLAND, Joseph Gallo ***”Fine ensemble acting, guided moment to real moment by Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ (Invited Guest Artist) director, Lee Milinazzo…” Tom Provenzano, LA Weekly Project 911, L.Milinazzo & Students Machinal, Sophie Treadwell Hello Out There, William Saroyan Twenty-Seven Wagons Full O’Cotton, T. Williams NYU Graduate Film School, NY Adjunct Professor: Directing the Actor & Acting for Directors INSTRUCTOR, DIRECTING & ACTING CLASSES New York Film Academy, NYC; Private Directors & Actors Lab, NYC; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC; Elizabeth Browning Acting Program, NYC; Howard Meyer Acting Program, Croton Falls, NY; NYU/Circle In the Square, GUEST PERFORMANCE/LECTURE Centrum Kultury, Warsaw and Poznan, Poland 2003; University of Manitoba, Winnepeg Canada 2002 University of North Dakota, School of the Arts 2002; Florida International University, Women’s Studies Program 2003; Ursinus College, PA, Arts Department 2003; East Stroudsburg College, PA 2002 FAIRLEIGH DICKENSEN UNIVERSITY Teaneck, NJ Director & Adjunct Professor of Theatre Acting for Camera, Introduction to Theatre; Play going and Analysis GRANTS AND AWARDS Van Ameringen Foundation Grant Tisch School Of The Arts Scholarship ()

L.A. Weekly Best Ensemble & Best Revival Awards Nominee Julliard Directing Fellowship finalist PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION DIRECTING: Alan Langdon, (Actor’s Space); Don Scardino, Mary Overlie (Six Viewpoints); Robert Gourp (Greek Mask / Clown) ACTING: Michael Kahn, Nikos Psacharapoulos, Alan Langdon, Sandra Secate, Jacqueline Brookes, Alan Langdon, Eric Morris M.A., New York University B.F.A., Drama, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.