Mia Rovegno Headshot

Mia Rovegno

 
Theater Credits
DIRECTING             
PRODUCTION   PLAYWRIGHT     COMPANY     
Drawers   Joe Waechter     Brown/A.R.T. Bakeoff     Reading
I Want A Boyfriend   Sam Marks     Brown/A.R.T. Bakeoff     Reading
Girls On The Clock   Diana Fithian     Brown Summer Playwrights Rep     July '08
Diagram Of A Kidnapping   Brendan Pelsue     New Plays Festival/Brown     
Some Of The Rooms   Chen Gu     New Plays Festival/Brown     
Inked Baby   Christina Anderson     New Plays Festival/Brown     
Elektra   Sophocles/Euripides     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     
Kill The Keepers   Dan LeFranc, Mia Rovegno     Empire Street Laboratory/Perishable Theater     Developed: Page73/Yale Summer Residency
They Were So Sure in Chicago, Landslide   Suzan-Lori Parks     365days/365plays at Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     
Polaroid Stories   Naomi Iizuka     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium     
Hurrah, Hurrah   Craig Divino     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium Short Plays Festival     
Photos From the Slide   Charise Greene     Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium Short Plays Festival     
Apartment   Mia Rovegno     foolsFURY      
Apartment (workshop)   Mia Rovegno     HummingbirdWORKS/Fury Factory Ensemble Theater Festival     
#1: Navigation   Mia Rovegno     HummingbirdWORKS     
I Dream of Tsunamis and Music Muffled Through the Walls   Mia Rovegno     HummingbirdWORKS     
Little Man Takes Flight   Mia Rovegno     HummingbirdWORKS, PuppetLOVE Festival     
(Un)just Desserts    Dir. of Puppetry     Funky Puppet Supper Club     
The Devil Take Them   Dir. of Puppetry     Funky Puppet Supper Club     
Jitterbug Perfume (Co-Director)   Tom Robbins (Adaptation)     Northwestern University     
Qui-Est-Elle? Nadja: The Soul in Limbo (one woman show)   Mia Rovegno     Northwestern University     
ASSISTANT DIRECTING             
The Communist Dracula Pageant   Dir: Anne Kaufman     American Repertory Theater     Playwright:Anne Washburn
The Good For Nothing Lover   Dir: Larry Reed     Shadowlight Productions     
Paris By Night   Dir: Birgitta Victorson     Trinity Repertory Company     Playwright: Curt Columbus
Our Town   Dir: Brian McEleney     Trinity Repertory Company     
 
Film Credits
PRODUCTION   ROLE     COMPANY     DIRECTOR
Red Without Blue   Editorial Consultant          Benita Sills, Todd Sills, Brooke Sebold
Granny D Goes to Washington   Assistant Editor     Solday Productions     Alidra Solday
The Fire Next Time   Assistant Editor     The Working Group     Patrice O'Neill
Little Man Takes Flight   Director     HummingbirdWORKS     
Cell 6.0   Co-Director and Editor     CELLspace Media Arts     
 
Television Credits
PRODUCTION   ROLE     COMPANY     
Democracy Now!   Assistant Editor/Producer     Democracy Now!     
Street Level TV   Co-founder, Producer, Editor     Radical Transmissions     
Grassroots Spotlight   Director and Editor     Radical Transmissions     
Cell TV   Assistant Editor     CELLspace Media Arts     
 
Other Credits
PERFORMANCE   ROLE     COMPANY     DIRECTOR
What You Will (or Twelfth Night)   Maria     foolsFURY     Rod Hipskind
Lifting Belly   The Poet (Gertrude Stein)     foolsFURY     Marrissa Wolf
Grimmly   Mother     foolsFURY     Ben Yalom
A (Balinese) Tempest   Trinculo     Shadowlight Productions     Larry Reed
The Circus of the Seven Basic Needs   Puppeteer/Ensemble     Bread and Puppet Theater     Peter Schumann
Long Live the King (the king is dead)   Ensemble     Redmoon Theater     Jim Lasko
People Like Me   Puppeteer     World Arts West/Shadowlight Productions     Isabel Fine
In This Very Room   Director/Ensemble     Intersection for the Arts HYBRID Project     Erika Shuch
Enanteodromia (4 doors)    Puppeteer     PuppetLOVE Festival     Christine Marie
Guru: The Allen Ginsberg Project   Joan Vollmer Burroughs     Northwestern University     Andy Fife
 
TEACHING
Teaching Fellowship:
Brown University Deparment of Theater, Speech and Dance
Introduction to Acting and Directing

Adjunct Faculty/Thesis Advisor:
Experimental Performance Institute/New College of California

Digital Video Editing:
CELLspace Media Arts Lab

Viewpoints:
Experimental Performance Institute/New College of California, foolsFURY,San Francisco Mime Troupe, School of the Arts (SOTA)

Creative Drama, Improv, Shadow Puppetry, Mask:
New Conservatory Theater Center, Performing Arts Workshop, San Francisco ArtsEd Project, Swivelarts, Marin Academy/Shadowlight Productions, Kulintang Arts Education Program, Robeson and Rivera Academy

Playwriting:
Each One Reach One (mentorship of incarcerated young playwrights)

ARTS ADMINISTRATION
*Administrative Director: EPI/New College of California
*Administrative Director/Assistant Producer: Kulintang Arts
*General Manager, Education/Outreach Coordinator: CELLspace
*Youth Enterprise and Arts Coalition Coordinator: CELLspace

PRODUCING
Producer:
10 “Save the CELL” performance benefits: CELLspace
“Y2K1 Festival”: CELLspace

Assistant Producer:
“POMO: Post Modern American Pilipino Performance Festival”
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Kulintang Arts

 
Education and Training
MFA in Directing, Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium (anticipated '09)
Bachelor of Science in Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Additional coursework:
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
Goldsmith’s College/University of London
New College of California's Experimental Performance Institute
RISD

Special Trainings:
Anne Bogart and the SITI Company/Saratoga International Theater Institute
SITI Company/Advanced Viewpoints and Suzuki
Chris Bayes/Clown 2
Joe Goode Performance Group/SF Dance Intensive
Stephen Wangh/ Grotowski Intensive
East Coast Artists/ Rasaboxes
Body Cartography Project/site-specific dance
Shinichi Moma Koga /Butoh
The Foundry/movement theater
Palindrome/interactive performance technologies
 
Special Skills
Dance: Jazz, Tap, Brazilian, West African
Viewpoints
Suzuki
Singing
Piano
Puppetry design
Choreography
Grantwriting
 
Awards and Recognition
Brown Teaching Fellowship 08-09
Lotta Theatrical Fund Scholarship Award
Creative Arts Council Grant
Invitation to Page 73/Yale Summer Residency
Invitation to La MaMa ETC International Symposium for Directors (Spoleto)
Grants For The Arts
Hometown Video Festival Honorable Mention
BAVC Digital Directions Video Editing Certification Scholarship
Bread and Puppet Theater Internship
Redmoon Theater Internship
Americorps VISTA award