ROB MELROSE [email protected] ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Cutting Ball Theater • 1999 - Present A theater company I founded in San Francisco to create productions of experimental new plays and re-visioned classics Yale Summer Cabaret • 1994 Princeton Summer Theater • 1990 DIRECTOR selected Shakespeare Pericles The Public Theater Troilus and Cressida The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Julius Caesar The Guthrie Theater / TAC The Tempest The Cutting Ball Theater Troilus and Cressida Stanford University (w/Public Theater) The Taming of the Shrew The Cutting Ball Theater Macbeth The Cutting Ball Theater As You Like It The Cutting Ball Theater New Plays Freud’s Last Session Mark St. Germain The Guthrie Theater An Accident Lydia Stryk Magic Theater Pen David Marshall Grant The Guthrie Theater The Pillowman (AD to Les Waters) Martin McDonagh Berkeley Rep The Vomit Talk of Ghosts Kevin Oakes The Cutting Ball Theater All Spoken by a Shining Creature Kevin Oakes Perishable Theatre The Train Play Liz Duffy Adams Crowded Fire Teacup for a Shallow Apocalypse Liz Duffy Adams The Yale School of Drama Classics Happy Days Samuel Beckett The Guthrie Theater Happy Days Samuel Beckett PlayMakers Rep Endgame Samuel Beckett The Cutting Ball Theater Krapp’s Last Tape Samuel Beckett The Cutting Ball Theater Pelleas and Melisande Maurice Maeterlinck The Cutting Ball Theater Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep August Strindberg The Cutting Ball Theater Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen The Actors’ Collective Creditors August Strindberg Gam Theatre A Dream Play August Strindberg The University of Rhode Island The Bald Soprano Eugène Ionesco The Cutting Ball Theater Victims of Duty Eugène Ionesco The Cutting Ball Theater Rhinoceros Eugène Ionesco Theatre Intime Experimental Plays The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Suzan-Lori Parks The Cutting Ball Theater Betting on the Dust Commander Suzan-Lori Parks The Cutting Ball Theater Accents in Alsace Gertrude Stein The Cutting Ball Theater Hamletmachine Heiner Müller The Cutting Ball Theater Roberto Zucco Bernard-Marie Koltès The Cutting Ball Theater My Head Was a Sledgehammer Richard Foreman The Cutting Ball Theater Pickling Suzan-Lori Parks The Cutting Ball Theater The Sandalwood Box Mac Wellman The Cutting Ball Theater Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy Vladimir Mayakovsky The Cutting Ball Theater EDUCATION Yale University, School of Drama, Post-Graduate Fox Foundation Fellow 1996-97 A year in Europe observing productions of Shakespeare in translation and studying Strindberg in Sweden Yale University, School of Drama, M.F.A. in Directing 1996 Princeton University, B.A. 1992 • Magna Cum Laude .