Leah Gardiner
LEAH GARDINER Directing credits include Fences (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Training Wisteria (Cherry Lane Theatre); Dance of the Holy Ghosts, Sam's Coming, Blue Door (New York Stage and Film); Sons (Children's Theater Company workshop); Sons and Mother (New Dramatists); Carve and Stoning Mary (The hotINK Festival); Bulrusher (world premiere and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Urban Stages); Earthquake Chica (SPF); Kent, CT (Zipper Theater); Wild Black-Eyed Susans (Center Stage); Blue Door (world premiere, South Coast Repertory); Paper Armor (GeVa Theatre and Cleveland Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire (Pillsbury House Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Madison Repertory Theatre); Topdog/Underdog (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Birdie Blue (City Theatre, Pittsburgh); Orange Flower Water (world premiere, Contemporary American Theatre Festival); Angels in America, Parts I and II (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); Intimate Apparel (Juilliard School); Three Sisters (New York University); Turcaret (Southern Methodist University); The White Rose (world premiere, Wright State University); installation of the second and third cast of Wit (Union Square Theater); Wit national tour (Kennedy Center, among others); Wit (Ordway Theatre, Minneapolis). Other credits: served as the director-in-residence at the Public Theater; resident director for New Dramatists. Education: graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Yale School of Drama. Bio as of June, 2008. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) 2003 Symposium: New Writers, New Worlds - June, 2003 - Listen Now. SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2008 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)