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Vita
STEVEN KENT
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORIAL PROJECTS:
The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang at the Croatian National Theatre in Varazdin
(2009)
Between a Ballad and a Blues by Linda Parris Bailey with Carpetbag Theatre
in Knoxville (2008)
A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau at the Croatian National Theatre in Varazdin
(2006) and the National Theatre of Bosnia in Sarajevo (2008)
Johnny Got His Gun with John Fleck at REDCAT at the Disney Center, Los Angeles
(2007)
Like Poison Ivy by John O’Neal in New Orleans and Knoxville (2003)
[Created from research and stories from the people of the highly
polluted lower Mississippi in Louisiana]
Crossings: Journeys of Catholic Immigrants produced by Cornerstone
Theatre(2002)
[Crossings was developed from stories of Catholic Immigrants as a
site-specific work at the de-commissioned St. Vibiana's Cathedral in downtown LA]
As You Like It by Shakespeare at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (2001)
Promise of a Love Song, a collaboration between Junebug Theatre, Roadside Theatre
and Pregones Theatre. (2000)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (1999)
Tender by Pam McMichael in Louisville (1998 and 1999)
Granice /Borders at the Summer Festival in Split, Croatia (1997)
[With American, British, Slovenian, and Croatian actors]
The Eleusinian Mysteries Co-directed with Deena Metzger (1980,1990, 1997)
[A series of workshops and rituals in Greece and Crete]
Whispering to Horses by Jo Carson at Seven Stages in Atlanta (1997)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at the Croatian National
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Theatre in Zagreb (1997)
Bones and Ash: a Gilda Story by Jewelle Gomez Co-directed with
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar with the Urban Bushwomen (1996-1997)
Voices in the Rain written and performed by Michael Keck’s at the Illusion
Theatre in Minneapolis (1996)
Stories From the Life and Writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones: Written
and performed by John O'Neal
V1. Don't Start Me to Talking of I'll Tell Everything I Know
V2. You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
V3. Wait 'Till the Midnight Hour
V4. Ain't No Use in Going Home, Jodie's Got Your Gal and Gone
Coming Home: The Anniversary compiled from stories of the people who live
on the Rocky Mountain Front (1996)
Crossing the Broken Bridge by John O'Neal of Junebug Theatre Project,
Naomi Newman of A Traveling Jewish Theatre and Kent.
The Montana Gay and Lesbian Story Project at The Myrna Loy Center
in Helena, Montana in (l995)
[Kent was presented a specially engraved thank-you plaque
on the steps of the Montana State Capitol for his work]
External Pressure, the Roscoe Arbuckle Story written and performed
by Ted Shell at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles (1994)
Aids/Us/Women a documentary collaboration produced by Artists Confronting Aids
presented in various venues in Los Angeles (1994)
Hard Times Come Again No More by Martha Boesing -based on the stories of
Meridel Le Seuer at the Illusion Theatre In Minneapolis (1994)
City of God written and performed by Jeff McMahon at The Dance Theatre
Workshop in New York (1994)
Junebug/Jack a collaboration between Roadside Theatre and the Junebug
Theatre Project
Tearsheets written and performed by Joan Hotchkis at Highways (1993)
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Daytrips by Jo Carson at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (l989) at Seven Stages
Theatre in Atlanta, (l991), at the Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis (l995)
[Daytrips won the Kesselring Award]
AT TENNESSEE REPERTORY THEATRE IN NASHVILLE (1984-1990)
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Amadeus by Peter Shaeffer
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Hamlet by Shakespeare
West Side Story by Bernstein and Sondheim
Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
If Live to See Next Fall by John O'Neal with music by Sy Kahn
[Also presented at the Spoleto Festival]
Red Summer with the Carpetbag Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee (1988)
Mr. Universe by Jim Grimsley, premiere productions Atlanta and New Orleans
(l987) and New York City (1988)
[Mr. Universe won the Oppenheimer Award.]
The Traveler by Jean-Claude Van Itallie at the Mark Taper Forum in
Los Angeles (1987)
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht for the International
Brecht Festival in Toronto (1986)
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The War in Heaven by Sam Shepard performed by Joseph Chaikin (l985 & 1986)
[Produced in San Diego, Atlanta, Toronto, and Parma, Italy]
Singing My Mother to Sleep by Nina Wise (l984)
[Cited as one the best productions of the year in San Francisco]
Early Warnings by Jean-Claude Van Itallie, including Bag Lady performed
by Shami Chaikin at the Manhattan Theatre Club (1983)
Bissie at the Baths written and performed by Joan Hotchkis (1982)
[produced by Joan Tewksbury at the New Museum in New York]
Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett performed by Joseph Chaikin and
adapted by Kent and Chaikin (1981)
[Produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival and
presented at Riverside Studios in London and the American Centre in Paris]
Dreams Against the State by Deena Metzger (1981)
[presented in forty private homes in
L.A., and at Seven Stages Theatre
in Atlanta]
AS FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE PROVISIONAL THEATRE of Los Angeles
(1972-1982)
Dominus Marlowe by Michael Monroe
[which won two LA Drama Critics Circle Awards]
Xa: a Vietnam Primer by Michael Monroe
America Piece by the ProVisional Theatre and Susan Yankowitz
[which, along with XA, was presented at the Festival Mondial
Du Theatre in France]
Inching Through the Everglades by the ProVisional Theatre
Voice of the People by the Provisional Theatre
AS FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE COMPANY THEATRE of Los Angeles
(1967-1972)
The Emergence by Ama Giesta Fleming
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Sir! by Winston Bradley
Caliban by Michael Monroe
Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, original
adaptation by Kent
[Also presented at the Edinburgh Festival and broadcast nationally
by NBC]
The James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theatre
[Also produced at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in
Paris and London by Pierre Cardin]
Watts Towers Theatre Workshop with youth from South Central LA.
(1964-1968)
MISCELLANEOUS:
Director of THE INSTITUTE FOR CONSCIOUS ACTING at the University of LaVerne
in California
Resident theatrical director of the Junebug Theatre Company in New Orleans
A recognised teacher of ensemble acting techniques and theatre skills, Kent has
been artist-in-residence, teacher, and workshop conductor at more than fifty
colleges and universities and regularly conducts sessions at theatres,
conferences, and festivals
Has conducted many workshops for special populations: in prisons, in mental
institutions, for the hearing impaired, for the physically challenged, for nurses
in AIDS clinics.
Recipient of three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards
A National Endowment for the Arts Panellist
Two times a resource artist and guest director at the International Theatre
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Congress in Toronto
Guest animateur at the Festival Provincial de Theatre Franco-Ontarien
Consulting director and dramaturg for Junebug Theatre Project, Touch Mime
Theatre,The Road Company, Roadside Theatre, Seven Stages Theatre,
A Travelling Jewish Theatre, Carpetbag Theatre, and the Urban Bushwomen
Faculty member of the Urban Bushwomen Summer Dance Institute at Florida
State University
A member of Alternate R.O.O.T.S (Regional Organisation of Theaters South)
A Member of the American Festival Project
A recipient of a major Artist-in-Residence grant from Theatre
Communications Group to work with Junebug Theatre Company
on Environmental Justice
A board member of the California Educational Theatre Association, South
An honorary citizen of New Orleans
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