Shira Milikowsky

Seoul, Korea, Republic of

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<style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal">Shira Milikowsky is a free-lance theater director who specializes in new plays and radical re-imaginings of musicals and classic plays. She also develops original work, bringing together outstanding groups of actors and designers to create collectively devised projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Shira received a BA in theater studies from Yale, and an MFA in directing from Columbia. Her MFA thesis project, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Golem</i>, was an original play based on the Jewish folktale that she created collaboratively with the company. Her graduate work also included Tennessee Williams’ little-known avant-garde play, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Gnädiges Fräulein</i>, as well as her own deconstruction of Chekhov’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Cherry Orchard,</i> called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Still Life. </i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Since her graduation from Columbia, Shira has directed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Big Money</i>, by Kyle Jarrow and Nathan Leigh), The New York International Fringe Festival (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Mourn The Living Hector, </i>by Paul Cohen, winner of a 2008 Fringe Excellence Award) and extensively at Ars Nova, where she was named the first-ever Director-in-Residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Shira has been a recipient of the Drama League directing fellowship, the Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship. She assistant directed the Tony-award winning revival of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Hair</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Shira is currently a Luce Scholar in Seoul, South Korea, where she works as a visiting artist at the Seoul Metropolitan Theater, and teaches acting at Kookmin University. Following her Luce Scholarship, Shira will begin work as an Artistic Director Fellow at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. </p>

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