LAUREN ZEFTEL [email protected] • 781-724-2019 • LaurenZA.me

THEATER DIRECTING: PRODUCTIONS

A PLAY TITLED AFTER THE COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR FEMALE-… Haleh Roshan 2019 Corkscrew Theater Festival, The Paradise Factory CALL OUT CULTURE: OR THE UNBEARABLE WHITENESS OF BEING Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin ANT Fest IN A WORD Lauren Yee 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival, Directing Studio IN SEARCH OF Sarah Einspanier Williamstown Theatre Festival, Directing Studio ON LOSS AND MICE AND MONSTERS AND LOVE Emily Zemba LPAC: Rough Draft Festival LEEKSPIN Cortland Nesley Brunch Theatre: Black Coffee BLACK HOLLOW Aeneas Sagar Hemphill 2017 Columbia MFA, Ford Studio, Signature Center Lisa D'Amour Pigeonholed Theatre Company, IATI Theater MALEFACTIONS Matthew Minnicino 2016 The Cradle Theatre Company, Chinatown Soup AMBITION: THE FEMALE AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER MUSICAL Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin Ars Nova ANT Fest • Planet Connections Fest. CRASH TEST Aeneas Sagar Hemphill Pipeline Theatre Company: While We Slept AUDREY ON AUDREY... Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin 2015 The Secret Theatre: Flying Solo Festival 2 TANGO Słavomir Mrożek 2013 Frisson Theatre Company, Robert Moss Theater LUCID Lauren Zeftel Experimental Theater Wing, University FILM, SOUND INSTALLATIONS + NARRATIVES SEVEN MINUTES (short film) Glenna Brucke Means of Production I'M NOT HERE RIGHT NOW Lauren Zeftel Theatre Thursdays @ The Yard • NYU Berlin ACCIDENT ON THE AVORA Lauren Zeftel NYU Berlin

(SELECTED) ASSOCIATE + ASSISTANT DIRECTING * indicates NYC premiere production

SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (associate dir.) Rachel Chavkin Ars Nova production: National Tour Ars Nova production: The Signature (assistant dir.) INK: A PIECE FOR MUSEUMS (associate dir.) Rachel Chavkin / Annie Tippe Under the Radar: Metropolitan Museum of Art THE AMATEURS Oliver Butler * MARJORIE PRIME * Playwrights Horizons THE CHRISTIANS Les Waters * Playwrights Horizons UNTITLED SUFFRAGIST PROJECT , Developmental Workshop EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR A. Browde + M. Silverstone * FIAF Crossing the Line Festival MARAT/SADE Elizabeth Swados NYU Tisch School for the Arts' Stageworks AWARDS, AFFILIATIONS AND EDUCATION

2018 - 2019 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Class 2018 Williamstown Directing Corp (Directing Assistant) • Drama League First Draft Resident 2017 Lincoln Center Directors Lab • Drama League Rough Draft Resident 2016 - 2018 Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow 2015- 2016 Playwrights Horizons Robert Moss Directing Fellow

BFA in Drama Tisch School of the Arts + New York University, Berlin studio training Playwrights Horizons Theater School • the Experimental Theater Wing; Minor in Applied Theater LAUREN ZEFTEL [email protected] • 781-724-2019 • LaurenZA.me

THEATER COMPANY CURATION and PRODUCING

CO-FOUNDER, CO-PRODUCER, + RESIDENT DIRECTOR of PLAY x PLAY (2015 - 2016 / 2018 - present) • playxplay.site a free, monthly, staged-reading series that highlights the body of work of an emerging playwright by presenting an evening of their short works as directed by a rotating group of three directors and a company of collaborating actors. The series offers an audience the rare opportunity to see a wide range of a single writer's voice in one evening, while simultaneously offering the playwright the chance to see a variety of interpretations of their work by an array of artists. As a resident director, I have staged readings of the following short pieces:

WILLIAMSBURG Lizzie Stern PLAY x PLAY • MTC Studios LOVE AND ANIMATION Ren Dara Santiago PLAY x PLAY • Rattlestick Playwrights Theater THIS IS GROWTH Lily Houghton PLAY x PLAY • Playwrights Downtown RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jahna Ferron-Smith PLAY x PLAY • Simple Studios LACOSTE T. Adamson PLAY x PLAY • Simple Studios THE UNIVERSE IS GIVING GIFTS Sofya Weitz PLAY x PLAY • Chinatown Soup REALLY SHORT PLAYS ABOUT FOREVER Sam Corbin PLAY x PLAY • Atlantic Studios A THING I CANNOT NAME Matthew Minnicino PLAY x PLAY • The Alchemical

CO-CURATOR + CO-FOUNDER of DRINKING PLAYS & READING WINE (2015 - 2018) • more at laurenza.me/drinking-plays a periodic play-reading salon series presenting both developing + published work for enjoyment and discussion. Over three years, Drinking Plays and Reading Wine presented 32 readings in various locations, including a one year residency at Jimmy's No. 43 in the East Village.

THEATER DIRECTING: (SELECTED) PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

EVERYTHING YOUR TOLD Xandra Nur Clark Queer|Art and La MaMa THE COUSINHOOD The Associates The Furnace Festival 2019, The Center at West Park CONVERSATIONS WITH ELIZA Lauren Zeftel The Drama League, First Draft Residency 2018 A PLAY TITLED AFTER THE COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR FEMALE… Haleh Roshan THML Theater Co., The Center at West Park 2018 ON LOSS AND MICE AND MONSTERS AND LOVE Emily Zemba ECC: Corpse Revival, Governor's Island The Drama League, Rough Draft Residency Drinks & Drama, Exquisite Corpse Company THE BEAUTY BOOK Sofya Weitz BarnFest 2018, Cloud City Barn Arts Collective Residency Outlier Theatre Co., PLAY DATE ON THE ASCENT A.P. Andrews Pipeline Theatre Company Crashbox Theater, READ.PLAY.WRITE. NYC SIT IN!, id Theater ALTHEA Edessa Tailo NYU Tisch: Graduate Dept. of Dramatic Writing Thesis AMBITION: THE FEMALE AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER MUSICAL Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin Dixon Place SORORITY GIRL K888 Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin The New Ohio: AmericanAF Festival LETTERS TO SALA (excerpt) Arlene Hutton Untold Stories of Jewish Women Festival FUCK THAT MOUNTAIN, COURAGEOUS LESTER McGRATH!! T. Adamson Exquisite Corpse Company: Drinks & Drama SPLAT GOES YOUR DAY Sarah Einspanier The Habitat Theater: Summertime Re-Write THE BOOK OF ESTHER Gina Stevensen The Joust Theatre Company POSEUR Lyndsey Bourne Cue for Passion Collaborative, The Tank IN REAL LIFE: A SLENDER MAN MUSICAL Brown, Bachman, Sokolow Industry Workshop THE NIGHT BEFORE A.P. Andrews Fresh Ground Pepper: BRB Reunion Show THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Evan Twohy The Frame Theater Co. | Bookshop Workshop