Talya Klein
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Browntrinity Theater Credits DIRECTOR Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott Cape Fear Regional Theater A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare The Here & Now Real Estate by Brenda Withers UNC/Playmakers MFA Program Elephant’s Graveyard by George Brant UNC – Chapel Hill Dept. of Dramatic Arts Marco Millions by Eugene O’Neill The Here & Now/Provincetown Williams Festival Cymbeline by William Shakespeare The Here & Now Enron by Lucy Prebble Duke University Dept. of Theater Studies Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins UNC – Chapel Hill Dept. of Dramatic Arts Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, adapted by Talya Klein) The Here & Now Grounded by George Brant Manbites Dog Theater As You Like It by William Shakespeare, adapted by Talya Klein The Here & Now Born This Way (devised by Talya Klein with the company) BCC Rep We Can Rebuild Him Book and Music by Deepali Gupta Brown University Theatre Arts and Performance Studies: Sock & Buskin/Brownbrokers Parade Music by Jason Robert Brown, book by Alfred Uhry Brown/Trinity MFA Program The Rover by Aphra Behn, adapted by Talya Klein Brown/Trinity MFA Program Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Samuel Adamson Brown/Trinity MFA Program All The Things You Are by Theo Goodell Writing is Live (Brown New Plays Festival Orange Lemon Egg Canary (West Coast Premiere) by Rinne Groff EVN Productions at the Hollywood Complex, Los Angeles (2008) Clocks and Whistles (American Premiere) by Samuel Adamson Origin Theatre Company, NYC (2006) Red Noses by Peter Barnes Kensington Drama Company, London (2003) Black Snow (UK Premiere) by Mikhail Bulgakov Kensington Drama Company, London (2003) The House of Yes by Wendy MacLeod Duke Players, NC (2001) The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt The Spence School, NYC (1998) PLAYWRIGHT A Midsummer Night’s Dream (adaptation) The Here & Now 2017 Marco Millions (adaptation) The Here & Now 2016 Cymbeline (adaptation) The Here & Now 2015 Much Ado About Nothing (adaptation) The Here & Now 2014 As You Like It (adaptation) The Here & Now 2013 Escaping Dorothy Duke Department of Theatre Studies* 2002 The Devil and Dorothy Parker Scriptworks NY 2005 Escaping Dorothy Duke Department of Theatre Studies* 2002 Wall/Flower Duke Players 2001 Violation Manbites Dog Theatre** 1999 ACTOR U.S.A. Janey Williams Brown/Trinity MFA Program …And Joy Ma Writing is Live (Brown New Plays Festival) The Time of Your Life Lorene/Streetwalker Brown/Trinity MFA Program Come and Go Ru Duke Players The Sandbox Grandmother Duke Players Come and Go Ru Duke Players The Black and White Woman 1 Duke Players Map Girl Map Girl Duke New Works Festival Don Juan Violette/The Statue Duke Players The Darker Face of the Earth Ticey Duke Players Don Juan Violette/The Statue Duke Players 802701: The Time Machine Weena/puppeteer Manbites Dog Theater The Sweet Vidalia Onion Sotrasha Mae Duke New Works Festival Film Credits The Yellow Wallpaper Art Director EVN Productions Television Credits Brokers Director/Executive Producer Web Series Precious Cargo Designer/Producer Web Series Other Credits Family Album (world Premiere) Assistant to Stew Oregon Shakespeare Festival Family Album (workshop) Assistant Director Oregon Shakespeare Festival This Blessed Plot Assistant Director The Weston Playhouse The Total Bent (workshop) Assistant Director The Public Theater Wikileaks Project (reading) Assistant Director NY Theater Workshop Apples & Oranges (premiere) Assistant Director The Alliance Theatre Fallujah (reading) Assistant Director The Culture Project Sparrow Grass (world premiere) Assistant Director Trinity Repertory Company A Christmas Carol Assistant Director Trinity Repertory Company Dead Man’s Cell Phone Assistant Director Trinity Repertory Company The Lady With All The Answers Assistant Director Pasadena Playhouse, CA (2008) Manhattan Mystery Blues Assistant Director 59 E 59, NYC (2006) Orange Flower Water Assistant Director Edge Theatre Company, NYC (2005) Communion Assistant Director Origin Theatre Company, NYC (2004) Paper Doll Assistant Director Duke Theatre Previews, NC (2002) The Crucible Assistant Director Duke Players, NC (2001)
*senior distinction project **opened for Holly Hughes’ “Preaching to the Perverted”
Education and Training
Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program 2012 Duke University, BA in Theatre and Social Struggle, 2002NHSI Theatre Cherub, Northwestern University, 1997Literary Intern, National Theatre, London, 2002-03 season Artistic Intern, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, 2003-04 season
Special Skills
TEACHING Duke University (Durham, NC) – Adjunct Professor/Visiting Artist UNC Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC) – Visiting Artist Bristol Community College (Fall River, MA) – Visiting Adjunct Professor and Director (Theatre) 2013 Brown University (Providence, RI) – Theatre and Performance Studies Teaching Fellowship 2010 Tots to Twenties Performing Arts Academy (London, England) – Acting Faculty 2003 Durham Public Schools (Durham, NC) – Visiting Teaching Artist 2001PRODUCER/MANAGER Project Manager at the Civilians 2013 Lead Producer and Artistic Director of The Here & Now
Awards and Recognition
2014 Lillian Chason Memorial Fellowship (UNC Chapel Hill) 2012 Motif Award Nomination: Best Production (“Parade”) Brown University Teaching Fellowship (2010) Benenson Artist Grant for Excellence in the Arts (2002) Dasha Epstein Playwriting Award (2001) O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Playwriting Fellowship (2001) Alex Cohen Award for Initiatives in Theatre (2000)”Parade” called one of the best productions in 2011 by the Providence Phoenix Talya Klein named one of nine “Artists to Watch in the New Millennium” by the Raleigh News & Observer (2000)Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, 2004 Directors’ Lab West, 2008