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Jesse Geiger

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Theater Credits
DIRECTING             
Production   Playwright     Company     Year
Full Circle   Charles Mee     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     2008 (Anticipated)
The Learned Ladies   Jean Baptiste Poqueline de Moliere     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     2008
Grandmother Land (world premiere)   Dipika Guha     Brown New Plays Festival     2008
The Gentleman Caller (world premiere)   Ann Marie Healy     The Empire Street Laboratory/Perishable Theatre     2007
Since You've Been Gone Meets Irresistible (365 Plays)   Suzan-Lori Parks     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     2007
Angels in America: Perestroika   Tony Kushner     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     2007
Funeral Wedding: The Alvin Play * (world premiere)    Emily Schwartz     The Strange Tree Group     2006
New Kid **   Dennis Foon     Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences     2005-06
Samuel The Fourth (world premiere)   Maria Ferrari     Dramatics NYC     2004
As You Like It   William Shakespeare     Delaware Shakespeare Festival     2004
Cyrano   Edmond Rostand (Adpt. by Jo Roets)     Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences     2004
New Friends for the Big Bad Wolf   Jasmin Cardenas     Kohl-McCormick Storybus     2004
Curse of the Starving Class   Sam Shepard     Dramatics NYC     2003
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest   Ken Kesey (Adpt. by Dale Wasserman)     Dramatics NYC     2002
Ugly City Game (world premiere)   Maria Ferrari     Bailiwick Theatre     2002
Haroun and the Sea of Stories   Salman Rushie (Adpt. by Tim Supple)      Northwestern University     2000
A Perfect Ganesh   Terrence McNally     Northwestern University     1999
STAGED READINGS             
St. Jude and the Hopeless Cause   Shayne Kennedy     Metropolis Performing Arts Center     2006
The Hand Held Saint   Emily Schwartz     Metropolis Performing Arts Center     2005
 
Other Credits
ASSISTANT DIRECTING             
I Am My Own Wife   Dir. Moises Kaufman     About Face Theatre     2003
All The King's Men   Dir. Brian McEleney     Trinity Repertory Company     2007
Merrily We Roll Along   Dir. Curt Columbus     Brown University     2007
The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)   Dir. David Saar     Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences     2005
How To Save the World and Find True Love   Dir. David Bell     NJNG Productions     2004
I Just Stopped By To See The Man   Dir. Randall Arney     Steppenwolf Theatre     2002
The Price   Dir. David Cromer     Writers' Theatre     2002
The Gamester   Dir. Michael Halberstam     Northlight Theatre     2001
ARTS MANAGEMENT             
Associate Artistic Director   Chicago Theatre for Young Audiences          
Artistic Assistant   Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival          
Programming Apprentice   The New Victory Theatre          
 
* Chicago Tribune's best of "On the Fringe" 2006

** Chosen for 2005 Chicago Humanities Festival
 
Education and Training
M.F.A. in Directing, Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium, Anticipated 2009

B.S. in Theatre w/ Certificate in Music Theatre Performance, Northwestern University, 2001

500 Clown: Risk, Play, Relationship 2005

8th Annual LaMaMa INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR DIRECTORS
 
Awards and Recognition
Summer Support Fellowship to attend the 8th Annual LaMaMa INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR DIRECTORS
 
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