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Mia Rovegno Director 2008 Girls on the Clock

Mia Rovegno is the founding artistic director of HummingbirdWORKS Multimedia_Performance_Project and a company member with foolsFURY in San Francisco. She has directed and performed with The Bread and Puppet Theater, Redmoon Theater, Shadowlight Productions, Perishable Theater and Intersection for the Arts, among others. Her plays have been developed through the foolsFURY Incubator and the Page 73 Yale Summer Residency.

In 2000, Mia was invited to LaMaMa ETC's Director's Symposium in Spoleto, Italy. In 2004, she developed Chuck Mee's Hotel Cassiopeia with the SITI Company, with whom she trained intensively in Suzuki and Viewpoints at the Saratoga International Theater Institute. She has studied under the mentorship of Paula Vogel, Bonnie Metzgar, Kevin Moriarty, Anne Bogart, Mary Zimmerman, Loretta Greco, Stephen Wangh, and Curt Columbus, among others.

Mia teaches ensemble-based performance, physical theater, Viewpoints, playwriting, puppetry, digital video editing, and production to youth and adults alike. In the Bay Area, she has taught with FoolsFURY, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, CELLspace, School of the Arts (SOTA), Swivelarts, The New Conservatory Theater Center, SF ArtsEd, and Performing Arts Workshop (PAW). She has trained high school youth in events production with In-Depth Funktions youth events production crew, of which she is a co-founder. She taught and directed with Robeson and Rivera Academy, a repeat offender prevention program for Bay Area youth, and teaches playwriting to incarcerated youth through Each One Reach One.

Former adjunct faculty at New College of California's Experimental Performance Institute, she currently teaches acting and directing to undergraduates at Brown. She received her BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern, and is a candidate for the MFA in Directing at the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium.

Consortium productions include: Polaroid Stories, Elektra, 365Days/365Plays, Inked Baby, Some of the Rooms, and Diagram of a Kidnapping.