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CARL FORSMAN is the Artistic Director of New York's Keen Company, a New York theater devoted to the production of sincere plays. Keen Company received the 2005 Drama Desk Special Award, "for moving and enlightening audiences with plays that build upon our theatrical heritage," and was the 2008 recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Grant. At Keen, he has directed the world premieres of Keen's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Beasley's Christmas Party, Michael Murphy's The Conscientious Objector, John Belluso's Pyretown, Keith Reddin's Can't Let Go and David Auburn's adaptation The Journals of Mihail Sebastian, the American premiere of Conor McPherson's The Good Thief (OBIE Award for Brian d'Arcy James), the New York premiere of Matthew Burnett's Theophilus North based on Thornton Wilder's novel, and revivals of Heinar Kipphardt's In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Somerset Maugham's The Breadwinner, Thornton Wilder's Such Things Only Happen in Books, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Revival), John van Druten's Voice of the Turtle (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director), PG Wodehouse's Good Morning Bill, and Tina Howe's Museum, among others. Other directing credits include Love Child (Primary Stages), Michael Murphy's Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) (OBIE Award, Production, Drama Desk nominations, Best Play & Best Actor) and Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Everything's Turning Into Beautiful for the New Group, and Tina Howe's new translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano & The Lesson for the Atlantic Theater Company, and A Few Good Men (Asolo). From 2006 to 2009 he was the Artistic Director of the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont.
Bio as of December, 2010.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Theatre Intern Group Panelist - 2008
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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