TAZEWELL THOMPSON DIRECTOR (THEATRE & OPERA), PLAYWRIGHT, TEACHER, ACTOR SDC, SAG, AFTRA, AEA, AGMA, CAE
THEATERS
Actors Theatre of Louisville Arena Stage City Theatre of Pittsburgh Classic Stage Company
Cleveland Play House Connolly Theatre Dartmouth College Delaware Theatre Company
Everyman Theatre Florida Stage Gateway Playhouse Goodspeed Opera House
Guthrie Theatre Hartford Stage Hartford TheaterWorks HERE Arts
Indiana University, Huntington Theatre Company Indiana Rep Juilliard Bloomington
Laguna Playhouse Ma Yi Theatre Manhattan Theatre Club Marin Theatre Company
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Minneapolis Children's Theatre Musical Theatre Works New Federal Theatre
Northlight Theatre NYU Tisch School of the Arts Old Globe Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival
People’s Light & Theatre Public Theatre/NY Shakespeare PlayMakers Rep San Jose Rep Company Festival
Second Stage Soho Rep Sundance Institute Syracuse Stage
The Acting Company The Goodman Theatre University of Kansas, Lawrence Virginia Stage Company
Westport Country Playhouse
THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
A Christmas Carol A Flea in Her Ear A Raisin in the Sun A Steady Rain
Almos’ A Man (World Before It Hits Home (World Abyssinia (World Premiere) As You Like It Premiere) Premiere)
Black Star Line (World Black No More (World Belle (American Premiere) Big Love Premiere) Pulitzer Prize Runner- Premiere) up
Boesman and Lena Broke-ology Chamber Music Constant Star (World Premiere)
Daisy Aldan on Great Jones Diamond Eater (World Cymbeline Fences Street (World Premiere) Premiere)
From The Mississippi Delta God of Carnage Going For Gold Great Expectations
Having Our Say Holiday Heart (World Premiere) Home How the Other Half Loves
Jam & Spice: The Music of Kurt Intimate Apparel Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia in Taurus Weill (World Premiere)
Les Trois Dumas (World Love Spoken Here (World Jar the Floor (World Premiere) Judevine (World Premiere) Premiere) Premiere) Love’s Labours Lost M Butterfly Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ma Rose
Mary T. & Lizzy K. (World Macbeth Mary’s Wedding Master Class Premiere)
Mother Courage and Her One Fine Day (American Neat (World Premiere) On The Verge Children Premiere)
Playboy of the West Indies Orpheus Descending Phaedra (In French) Race (American Premiere)
Red Romeo & Juliet Ruined Sawbones (World Premiere)
Sergeant Ola & His Followers Schubert's Last Serenade Scorp! (World Premiere) Sedition (World Premiere) (American Premiere)
Stamping, Shouting and Singing The African Company Presents The Beggar’s Strike The Birds Home Richard III
The Bloodknot The Butterfingers Angel The Caucasian Chalk Circle The Crazy Locomotive
The Crucible The Fantasticks! The Firebugs The Glass Menagerie
The Indolent Boys (World The Good Person of Setzuan The Heidi Chronicles The Immigrant (The Musical) Premiere)
The Motherf***er with the Hat The Old Settler The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Rover
The Sea Gull The Skin of Our Teeth The Sty of the Blind Pig The Tempest
Wilder Rediscovered: 4 One-Act The Tree Artist (Word Plays by Thornton Wilder Yellowman Yerma Premiere) (World Premiere)
OPERA HOUSES
Boston Lyric Opera Cape Town Opera Duke University Eisenhower Theatre
Indiana University at Glimmerglass Opera Kansas University at Lawrence Kennedy Center Opera House Bloomington
La Scala Los Angeles Opera Michigan Opera Theatre Nagoya Opera
New Jersey Opera New Orleans Opera New York City Opera Opera Columbus
Opera Lafayette Opera Pacific Osaka Opera Paris Opera Bastille
Portland Opera San Francisco Opera Teatro Real Madrid Terrace Theatre
Tokyo Opera UrbanArias Vancouver Opera Virginia Opera
Washington National Opera
OPERA PRODUCTIONS
Appomattox (Revised/World As of a Dream (World A Midsummer Night’s Dream Blue Viola (World Premiere) Premiere) Premiere)
Cato in Utica (American Carmen Death in Venice Dialogues of the Carmelites Premiere) Don Giovanni Guilio Cesare (January 2019) Lost in the Stars Luyala (World Premiere)
Margaret Garner Norma Patience Pearl Fishers
Porgy & Bess Stefan (World Premiere) Street Scene The Second Hurricane
The Tender Land Vanqui (World Premiere) View From the Bridge Xerxes
PLAYWRIGHT & LIBRETTIST Commissions from Lincoln Center Theatre, Glimmerglass Opera, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, and People’s Light and Theatre Company: Mary T. & Lizzy K. (World Premiere at Arena Stage) Jubilee (World Premiere commissioned play for South Coast Rep, production date pending) Constant Star (16 National Productions) A Christmas Carol (Commissioned by People’s Light & Theatre Company, produced at People’s Light and Westport Country Playhouse) Love Spoken Here (Stage Adaptation of World Love Poems at Westport Playhouse) Jam & Spice (Stage Adaption of the music of Kurt Weill at Westport Playhouse) Blue (Libretto for new opera for Glimmerglass Opera 2019)
TEACHER Master Classes New York University University of Indiana at Bloomington Tulane Kansas University at Lawrence
Affiliated Schools St. Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY ~ Chair, Theatre Department Columbia Grammar & Prep, NYC ~ Chair, Theater Department Syracuse University ~ Associate Professor, Theater Dartmouth College
ACTOR Broadway: Longacre Theatre, Circle in the Square; Martinique; Roundabout; Manhattan Theatre Club; Long Wharf Theatre; McCarter Rep; Woodstock Playhouse; La Mama Etc; Ridiculous Theatre Company; Theater for the New City; The Cubiculo; Washington Shakespeare Festival; Washington Theatre Club...
A RAISIN IN THE SUN ALCESTIS ANTIGONE AS YOU LIKE IT Asagai Death Tiresias Le Beau; Silvius
CAESAR AT THE CRY THE BELOVED AUTO DA FE RUBICON CHECKING OUT COUNTRY Eloi The Tailor Gilbert Narrator
DR. KHEAL GOA HOW TO WRITE A PLAY JULIUS CAESAR Dr. Kheal Goan Hindu Prince Humidea Marcellus
MACBETH MACBETH OEDIPUS SHE WHO WAS HE 1st. Witch; 1st. Murderer Malcolm Jocasta Hatshepsut
THE BACCHAE THE BED WAS FULL THE BOOR THE BOYS IN THE BAND Dionysius Lewis Luka Bernard
THE BUTTERFLY’S EVIL THE MERCHANT OF THE NATIONAL SPELL VENICE HEALTH THE STRING GAME Scorpy Salerio West Indian Student Cecil THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING VULGAR LIVES WE WERE DANCING Various roles M. Perfect Perfection Ippagga
SERVICES AND POSITIONS
Board Member ~ Literary Advisory Board ~ Thornton AT&T New American Plays Board Member ~ Kurt Weill Managers & Dramaturges of the Wilder Society ~ (Present) Panelist Foundation ~ (Present) Americas
Board Member ~ Society for Co-Founder ~ Allen Lee NEA Grant Advisor for Cultural Diversity Panelist New Music Hughes Fellows Program Resident Theatres
Opera America Panelist & Philadelphia Theatre Initiatives TCG & TDF New Play Contest NEH Panelist Grant Advisor Advisor Judge
AWARDS Porgy and Bess – Emmy Nominations Best Production Best Director
Constant Star – 9 Barrymore Awards, 5 NAACP Awards, 3 Carbonell Awards Best Play Best Musical Best Ensemble Best Direction
Mary T. & Lizzy K. – Edgerton Award for New American Plays
REFERENCES (Upon Request)