Director, The Taming of the Shrew
In five seasons at OSF: Director, Indecent, Julius Caesar (OSF, Theatre for a New Audience), The Unfortunates (OSF, American Conservatory Theatre) Love’s Labor’s Lost; assistant director, Macbeth, Equivocation. Phil Killian Directing Fellow. Other theatres: Regional: Straight White Men (Studio Theatre); HIR, The Nether (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); American Night, Romeo and Juliet (Yale Repertory Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew (California Shakespeare Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Camino Real (New York University MFA Program); Three Sisters (The Studio/New York); A Lie of the Mind (American Conservatory Theater MFA program); The Whale Play, Twelfth Night Parking Lot Project (New Theater House). Other credits: Woolly Mammoth Director-in-Residence and company member; co-founded New Theater House with Yale School of Drama alumni; associate artistic director, California Shakespeare Theater. Teaching: Faculty member, MFA directing program, Northwestern University. Awards: TCG Leadership U Grant, 2010 Princess Grace Award, Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in Directing (Yale School of Drama), Drama League Directing Fellow, TCG Observership Grant. Education: MFA in Directing, Yale School of Drama. www.shanacooper.com