E L E N A A R A O Z www.elenaaraoz.com Allison Schwartz, Paradigm Talent Agency [email protected] [email protected] 267.253.3232 212.897.6400 BROADWAY (charity event) Union Square Incident* Warren Leight The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, American Airlines Theatre OFF-BROADWAY Original Sound* Adam Seidel Cherry Lane Theatre Fur Migdalia Cruz New York Theatre Workshop Next Door Madness of Small Worlds* Mac Wellman New York Theatre Workshop Next Door Alligator* Hilary Bettis The Sol Project and New Georges Architecture of Becoming* multiple Women’s Project at City Center (by Lauren Yee, Sarah Gancher, Kara Lee Corthron, Vicki Grise, Dipika Guha) Three on a Couch Carl Djerassi Redshift Productions at Soho Playhouse Phallacy Carl Djerassi Redshift Productions at Cherry Lane Theatre SELECTED LIVE VIRTUAL PRODUCTIONS The Manic Monologues* Zach Burton McCarter Theatre (2021 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD NOM.) A Survivor’s Odyssey* Prescott/Jacobs White Snake Projects (upcoming) Alice in the Pandemic* Sosa/Jacobs White Snake Projects a farm for meme* Virgina Grise Cara Mia Theatre A Virtual Sugar Skull!* Gregory Van Acker Mexico Beyond Mariachi References to Salvador Dalí… José Rivera Juilliard Swell Live + Online Melisa Tien HERE at Home/HERE Arts Center SELECTED INTERNATIONAL Two Arms and a Noise* Elena Araoz Bucharest International Theatre Platform, Romania Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Prague Shakespeare Company, Czech Republic The Power* Li Tong Chen Noble Theatre Bridge, Beijing, China SELECTED OPERA I Am A Dreamer Who Director Resonance Works, Pittsburgh (upcoming) No Longer Dreams* White Snake Productions at Paramount Theatre, Boston Let’s Celebrate* Director White Snake Productions, Boston (upcoming) Azaan* Director Oregon Symphony, Portland La traviata Director/Choreographer New York City Opera at BAM Gilman Opera House Falstaff, Act III Director Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM Gilman Opera House Lucia di Lammermoor Director Opera North, NH Così fan tutte Director Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM Gilman Opera House Latin Lovers Director/Choreographer Glimmerglass Opera La traviata Choreographer/Associate Director with Sir Jonathan Miller Vancouver Opera St. Matthew Passion Associate Director with Sir Jonathan Miller BAM Harvey Theatre Così fan tutte Associate Director with Sir Jonathan Miller Seattle Opera Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart BAM Harvey Theatre Il matrimonio segreto Associate Director with Sir Jonathan Miller BAM Harvey Theatre Dido and Aeneas Associate Director with Sir Jonathan Miller Glimmerglass Opera SELECTED NATIONAL TOURS Sugar Skull! A Dia de los Gregory Van Acker Mexico Beyond Mariachi, represented by Columbia Artists Muertos Musical Adventure 30-city American tour 2019, with tour set for 2022 SELECTED REGIONAL THEATRE Garbologists* Lindsay Joelle City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA (upcoming) Sweat Lynn Nottage People’s Light, PA In Between* Ibrahim Miari Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, MO Plastic Drastic* Elena Araoz Rose Theatre, Omaha, NE The Retreating World Naomi Wallace Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha, NE The Company We Keep* Jaclyn Villano Boston Playwright’s Theatre, MA The Fever Chart Naomi Wallace Underground Railway Theatre, Boston, MA (IRNE Nomination) The Price Arthur Miller Northern Stage, VT Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Geva Theatre at SUNY Brockport, NY Io: a myth about you* Monika Bustamante Shrewd Productions, Austin, TX (4 Critics’ Table Nominations) Faust Elena Araoz FirstWorks Providence Festival, RI Titus Andronicus Shakespeare Austin Shakespeare Festival (B. Iden Payne Award) E L E N A A R A O Z www.elenaaraoz.com Allison Schwartz, Paradigm Talent Agency [email protected] [email protected] 267.253.3232 212.897.6400 OTHER SELECTED NYC THEATRE Under the Skin* Catherine Filloux Intar (upcoming) Swell* Melisa Tien HERE Arts Center Kidnap Road* Catherine Filloux La MaMa Conduct of Life María Irene Fornés Boundless Theatre Company Mechanics of Love Dipika Guha To-by-For Productions Prospect Octavio Solís Boundless Theatre Company Mud María Irene Fornés Boundless Theatre Company Horrocks/Wu World Woo* Mac Wellman The New Museum, also at ArtsEmerson and BlueBarn Omaha She-She-She* Virginia Grise Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre Lawnpeople* Natalia Naman Cherry Lane Mentor Project Thirst* Monika Bustamante HERE Arts Center Labyrinths/Laberintos* Elena Araoz Chekhov Theatre Ensemble (bilingual Spanish/English) War Music* Elena Araoz Skirball Center/NYU Institute for the Humanities also at Chicago Humanities Festival, FirstWorks Providence RI SELECTED ASSOCIATE & ASSISTANT THEATRE DIRECTING Ghosts Associate Director with Sir Richard Eyre BAM Harvey Theatre King Lear Assistant Director for Sir Jonathan Miller Broadway, Lincoln Center The Library* Assistant Director for Steven Soderbergh The Public Theatre Antony and Cleopatra Assistant Director for Darko Tresnjak Theatre for a New Audience AUDIO DRAMA DIRECTING Nightfall Marisela Treviño Orta Audible (upcoming) Exile Brigette Wimberly Audible SELECTED NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS and STAGINGS Allond(r)a by Gina Femia (MCC and Leah Ryan Prize) Mushroom by Eisa Davis (People’s Light and Theatre) Alma by Benjamin Benne (Old Globe, National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill Theater Center) three girls never learnt the way home by Matthew Paul Olmos (The New Group) Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron (Atlantic Theatre Company, Labyrinth Theater, PlayPenn) Megastasis by Kia Corthron (New York Theatre Workshop, Yale University, Brooklyn New Works) Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (The Public Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group Spotlight Series) Children of the Republic by Gonzalo Rodriguez Risco (Playwrights Realm) Tiny People by Christopher Oscar Peña (Two River Theatre) All’s Well That Ends Well translation by Virginia Grise (Play On! at Classic Stage Company) River of Gruel by Sibyl Kempson (New Dramatists) Duchess of Stringtown by Jones and Schmid (Anna Deavere Smith’s Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue) The Ghosts of Lote Bravo by Hilary Bettis (Lark’s Playwright’s Week, Repertorio Español, Project Y Theatre) Dakota Atoll by Hilary Bettis (New York Theatre Workshop) Tio Pepe by Matthew Lopez (playwright’s workshop) with Pricilla Lopez Good People one version in English and one version in Spanish by Alex Beech (Two River Theatre) Obra Negra by Flavio González Mello and translated by Carmen Rivera (Lark’s México/US Exchange) What Are You Worth? by Kara Lee Corthron (Miranda Theatre Company) The Greenest Month by Meghan Kennedy (playwright’s workshop) EVENT DIRECTING events for PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Anna Deavere Smith’s Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue SELECTED HONORS • Two Arms and a Noise, written and directed by Elena Araoz, named by Latino Theatre Commons as one of “thirty- six plays and writers that everyone should know.” 2015 • The Beatrice Terry Artist-In-Residence at The Drama League for a writer-director 2015 - to develop Plastic Drastic, a commission by the Rose Theatre RELATED Member AGMA, SDC, AEA, Canadian AEA, SAG-AFTRA (eligible) Spanish speaker, reads music, trained singer New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect EDUCATION M.F.A. in acting; University of Texas at Austin B.A. in English and theatre; College of the Holy Cross TEACHING faculty at Princeton University - Theatre Program *world premiere