PIRRONNE YOUSEFZADEH Website: www.pirronne.com E-mail: [email protected] Cell: (314) 704-1710 DIRECTING EXPERIENCE (REPRESENTATIVE) New York: Martyrs by Romana Soutus La Mama Veil’d by Monet Hurst-Mendoza Astoria Performing Arts Center World Premiere I Am Gordafarid Created by the Company Rising Circle Theater Collective Workshop Production And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey by Lauren Feldman Invisible Dog, Brooklyn SDC Denham Fellow; NYIT nominee QVC by Sam Hunter Partial Comfort/The Wild Project The Tenant by Various; directed track by Sarah Burgess The Woodshed Collective Assoc. Director; Best of 2011, The L Magazine A Disappearance in Two Parts by Cory Hinkle HERE/Summer Sublet Series You Wouldn’t Want to Take it With You Even if You Could by Suzan-Lori Parks Public Theatre/Joe’s Pub Drama League 365 Plays/Days Jack Perry is Alive (And Dating) by Harrison David Rivers & Daniella Shoshan 2009 A.N.T. Fest New York Musical Theatre Fest. 2011 Next Link Selection What Happened to Bill Viola? by Cory Hinkle Ars Nova 2010 A.N.T. Fest Reunion by Rachel Bonds Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Brunch Crow’s Nest by Rachel Bonds Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Brunch Theodore Roosevelt & The Night I Lost My Innocence by Darcy Fowler Ensemble Studio Theatre Asking for Trouble Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock The Drilling Company Barking Girl by Susan Bernfield Chrysalis Theater Company World Premiere The Mud Hole by Hilary Bettis F*It Club’s Spring Fling Baptism by Harrison David Rivers Samuel French Festival Regional: The Royale by Marco Ramirez The Kitchen/Geva Theatre Center March/April, 2019 Once by Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová Pioneer Theatre Company February-March, 2019 A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath Actors Theatre of Louisville October-November, 2018 Heartland by Gabriel Jason Dean Geva Theatre Center World Premiere The Invisible Hand by Cleveland Playhouse The Lake Effect by Rajiv Joseph Geva Theatre Center Utopia, MN by Meg Miroshnik Williamstown Theatre Festival That High Lonesome Sound by Cory Hinkle, Charise Castro Smith, Diana Grisanti & Jeff Augustin Actors Theatre of Louisville 2015 Humana Festival of New Plays We Are Proud To Present A Presentation… by Jackie Sibblies Drury InterAct Theatre Company The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane by Jen Silverman InterAct Theatre Company Barrymore Nom: Direction & Production The Life Model Created by the Company On the Boards World Premiere In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Theatre Horizon Barrymore Nom: Direction & Production Winter Games by Rachel Bonds Actors Theatre of Louisville 2014 Humana Festival of New Plays The Match by Ryan Pavelchik: Actors Theatre of Louisville God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza Perseverance Theatre What Happened to Bill Viola? By Cory Hinkle Hangar Theatre World Premiere Icarus’s Mother by Hangar Theatre Mondo Don Juan by Cory Hinkle Williamstown Theatre Festival World Premiere Far Away by Caryl Churchill Williamstown Theatre Festival Grace, or the Art of Climbing by Lauren Feldman NPTC/Power Plant Barrymore Nomination: Outstanding New Play Psalms of a Questionable Nature by Marisa Wegrzyn NPTC/Walnut Street Theatre Academic: Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill American Conservatory Theatre Upcoming: May, 2019 Mr. Burns by Wesleyan University Upcoming: November, 2018 Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill Columbia University MFA Acting Thesis Production Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill Atlantic Theater School Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn Ramapo College The Electric Baby by Stephanie Zadravec Fordham University Circle Mirror Transformation by University of Rochester Our Lady of 121st Street by Yale School of Drama By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Louisiana State University Obama-ology by Aurin Squire Juilliard Drama Division We Are Proud to Present A Presentation… by Jackie Sibblies Drury Fordham University Good Day by Diana Lynn Small UT Austin/ Michener Center Blood Wedding by Lorca, translated by Caridad Svich Ramapo College Myth in Motion Devised by the Company Rutgers/NJIT Big Love by Charles L. Mee Riverside Theatre Graduate Thesis Production

Fool for Love by Sam Shepard Columbia University mother calls me william//but the boys all call me bill Devised by the Company Columbia University Staged Readings & Workshops: Kid Prince & Pablo by Brian Quijada The Kennedy Center Lady Tattoo by Meg Miroshnik New York Theatre Workshop 3 Farids by Ramiz Monsef Playwrights Horizons, TheatreWorks & La Jolla Playhouse Utopia, Minnesota by Meg Miroshnik The Drama League/Williamstown; Cleveland Playhouse/CWRU Heartland by Gabriel Jason Dean New York Theatre Workshop Murmur Rock by MJ Kaufman Huntington Theatre Company The Happiest Song Plays Last by Quiara Alegría Hudes Arden Theatre The Ladies of Salerno by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton New Georges Jam on Toast Soldier X by Rehana Lew Mirza Lark Play Development Center 4000 Miles by Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Reading Series Assistant Directing: Red Dog Howls by Alexander Dinelaris New York Theatre Workshop Dir. Ken Rus Schmoll Coraline by David Greenspan & Stephin Merritt MCC/True Love Productions Dir. Leigh Silverman Who Do You Think You Are by the Company SITI Company Dir. Anne Bogart A Civil War Christmas by Long Wharf Theatre Dir. Tina Landau Cipher by Cory Hinkle Summer Play Festival Dir. Kip Fagan Act a Lady by Jordan Harrison Actors Theatre of Louisville Dir. Anne Kauffman PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS, MEMBERSHIPS & HONORS • Sagal Fellowship Recipient, Williamstown Theatre Festival 2016 Season • Barrymore Nominee, Outstanding Direction: In The Blood and The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane 2014-2015 Season • Recipient, The 2013 Denham Fellowship, Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation 2014 • Usual Suspect, New York Theatre Workshop July 2012- • Member, Ensemble Studio Theatre December 2015 - • Residency Recipient, The Space At Ryder Farm Summer, 2011 & 2014 • Fellowship Coordinator, New York Theatre Workshop January 2012-June 2013 • Recipient, 2010-12 Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship, New York Theatre Workshop June 2010-June 2012 • Member, 2011 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab June 2011-July 2011 • Resident Director, Ensemble Studio Theatre September 2010-June2011 • Member, 2009-10 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab October 2009-May 2010 • Affiliated Artist, New Georges & Member, The Jam August 2010 - • Directing Assistant, The Williamstown Theatre Festival June-August 2008 • Summer Directing Fellow, The Drama League Directors Project May-August 2006 • Directing Intern, Milwaukee Repertory Theater August 2004-May 2005 • Acting Apprentice, Actors Theatre of Louisville August 2003-May 2004 EDUCATION & TRAINING Columbia University School of the Arts New York, New York M.F.A. in Directing, Shubert Fellow & Matthews Fellow NYU Tisch School of the Arts/ The Public Theatre New York, New York • Course work: The Rehearsal Process: Collaboration in the Theatre (Taught by Oskar Eustis & Rinne Groff) SITI Company Summer Training Intensive (Suzuki & Viewpoints) Saratoga Springs, New York • Assistant to Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, and training participant. Washington University St. Louis, Missouri B.A. summa cum laude in Drama and English Literature (Dean’s Scholarship Recipient) The Globe Theatre: Acting & Directing Intensive London, England • Recipient of the Frank F. Fowle Theatre Scholarship OTHER SKILLS • Classical piano & accompaniment for fourteen years, and Vocal training (Classical & Musical Theatre) for four years. • Advanced experience in Suzuki and Viewpoints and continued training with SITI Company. • Theater faculty, NYU, Fordham, Rutgers/NJIT and UT Austin/Michener; Additional teaching credits available upon request.