Suzanne Agins | Meredith
McDonough | Shannon O Donnell | Teresa
K. Pond
Lauren Rosen | Lisa Rothe | Linnet Taylor | Daniella Topol 
SUZANNE AGINS Suzanne Agins is the Artistic Associate (New Plays) at Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has developed new work by Ken Weitzman, Gordon Cox, Sheila Callaghan, Barry Levey, Cusi Cram, and Sonya Sobieski among others. She has directed plays at Arielle Tepper’s Summer Play Festival 2004, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Cherry Lane Theatre, The Kraine Theater, Rattlestick Theater, The Connolly Theater, HERE, The New York Fringe Festival, and more. She served as the Associate Director on Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Story at The Public and Long Wharf Theaters. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab as well as the Women’s Project Directors Forum, holds an MFA from the University of California (San Diego), and an AB from Princeton University.
MEREDITH MCDONOUGH Meredith McDonough most recently directed the premieres of Adam Rapp's Members Only for Slantworks at the Tank in New York, and Alison Moore's Hazard County at Actors Express in Atlanta. Other New York credits include the premiere of Betty Shamieh's Again and Against for New Georges. During her 3 seasons at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she directed the world premieres of Kuwait, A Bone Close to My Brain, Heaven and Hell, and Backstory in the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She was also the 2004 Boris Sagal Fellow at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where she directed Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. Other favorite credits include Angels in America, Full Circle, Balm in Gilead, Baltimore Waltz and A Bright Room Called Day. She holds an MFA in directing from UCSD and a BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
SHANNON O’DONNELL
TERESA K. POND Teresa K. Pond was Producing Artistic Director of
ACT Theatre Company in Alaska before receiving her MFA in Directing
from University of California, Irvine. In New York City she has directed
professional productions and readings with The Women’s Project
(off-Broadway), American Globe Theatre, Sundog Theatre, New Age Classic
Productions and a major east coast tour with Words of Choice Productions.
She directs with NYU's First Look Theatre Company, and is a member
of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and The Women’s Project Directors
Forum. Her background includes a strong cross-section of classical
and new plays, musicals, and opera. Her most recent productions include
The Man Who Came to Dinner at Kentucky's Pioneer Playhouse and Half
Life, recently hailed by New York Magazine as the top show of the 2005
New York Fringe Festival. LAUREN ROSEN Lauren Rosen is currently directing Boy Gets Girl
at SUNY Stony Brook. Other recent credits include her adaptation of
Carson McCuller’s Wunderkind as part of the Women Center Stage
Festival at Culture Project, August Strindberg’s A Dream Play,
Abingdon Square (Brick Theatre, NY), Failure to Thrive (Culture Project,
NY), Closer (Guest Artist, Johns Hopkins University), Not I (Lincoln
Center Directors’ Lab), an adaptation of E.B. White’s The
Door (Howard Studio, Burlington, Vermont), Miss Julie (MXAT Conservatory,
in Russian), The Ghost Sonata (CSV, NY). She assistant-directed Verdi’s
Otello, and Puccini’s La Boheme at Hawaii Opera Theatre. Ms.
Rosen has been a guest director at Johns Hopkins University and Fordham
University. She is a member of Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab,
The Women’s Project Directors Forum and she is a New Georges
affiliate artist. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with New
York playwrights on the development of new scripts by directing workshops,
readings and offering dramaturgical feedback. MFA in directing from
Moscow Art Theatre / A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training
at Harvard University. LISA ROTHE
LINNET TAYLOR Linnet Taylor is from London and attended Cambridge
University. She is a winner of Britain’s Woolwich national playwriting
award. London credits include The Roaring Girl (BADA). U.S. credits
include The Winter’s Tale, Gilgamesh, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead, Lysistrata, Archie Loves Nathan, El Gato Sin Amigos (the
last three at the Hangar Theatre’s Wedge space), and The City
of Kites and Crows (an adapted Coriolanus for three actors). New York
productions include Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s by Yusef
El Guindi, Passengers by Betty Shamieh, and Eastern Standard. She has
been a Drama League directing fellow (2002 and ongoing), a directing
fellow at Geva Theatre, Rochester, and a member of the Women’s
Project Directors Forum (ongoing). She is directing Twelfth Night with
her own company, Fifth Estate, for private performances during winter
2005. DANIELLA TOPOL Daniella Topol’s recent projects include: Zakiyyah
Alexander’s Sick (Summer Play Festival) Sheila Callaghan’s
Dead City (Public Theater’s New Works Now); Trista Baldwin’s
Sand (Playwright’s Center Minneapolis/ Urban Stages); Dreams
This Way: Best of Raw Impressions (TADA); David Simpatico's Mary (NYC
Fringe Festival); and Frank Basloe’s Confessions of a Lamentable
Deed (HB Playwrights). She has directed other productions and workshops
at Actors Fund Home, Axis Theatre, Barrington Stage, City Theatre,
Connecticut Rep, Ensemble Studio - Youngblood, Epiphany Theater, Goodspeed
Musicals, New Dramatists, New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, among
others. She also directs for NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
Program as well as NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing. Previously
the Associate Producing Director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh and
the New Works Program Director for the National Alliance for Musical
Theatre, Daniella is currently the Managing Director of the Lark Play
Development Center. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s Directing
Program, Daniella is a member of The Women’s Project Director’s
Forum, and an NYTW Usual Suspect. Upcoming productions include: Stanton
Wood's Snow Queen (Urban Stages - December), Saviana Stanescu's Lenin's
Shoe (Lark Barebones - February), and Sheila Callaghan's Dead City
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Shannon
O’Donnell is currently Resident Director and Dramaturg at People’s
Light & Theatre Company, outside Philadelphia, where she is directing
the world premiere of Jason and the Golden Fleece by John Olive. Last
spring, Shannon directed the critically praised Philadelphia premiere
of 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane at Theatre Catalyst. Last winter, she
directed the world premiere of A Higher Place in Heaven by Pamela Parker,
now nominated for a 2005 Barrymore Award for Best New Play. At People’s
Light, she directed the world premieres of The Forgiving Harvest by
Y York and The Thoughts & Travels of Nicki by Russell Davis, in
addition to The Cuban Swimmer, Trying to Find Chinatown, The Moon Please,
The Little Prince, The Secret Garden, and Last Train to Nibroc. In
spring of 2006, she will direct Yemaya’s Belly by Women's Project
Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes. Shannon has produced a series
of summer festivals of new and experimental plays at People’s
Light, and is currently Producer for six new play commissions. She
received grants to establish the Young Women’s Ensemble, an advanced
student ensemble that created and performed three original works for
theatre. Shannon was awarded the 2000 Princess Grace Theatre Apprenticeship
Award for Directing, and is a member of the Directors’ Forum
at the Women’s Project in New York. Starting this fall, Shannon
will be working as a Research Associate for Harvard Business School,
traveling to Copenhagen, Denmark and other European countries to interview
artists about their art-making process and create written and film
documentation. 
Lisa
Rothe enjoys a multi-faceted career as an educator, actor, voice-over
artist, and director. Her recent directing credits include shows for
the Summer Play Festival (Split Wide Open by Christina Gorman & Anatomy
1968 by Karen Hartman); Milwaukee Shakespeare Company (As You Like
It); Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre (associate director for
The Persians); 59 E 59th Street and Blue Heron Arts Center (premiere
of Ellen McLaughlin’s Mermaid); Yale School of Drama (Balm in
Gilead); NYU’s MFA acting program (Gum and Top Girls); the Culture
Project (Rebecca Hart’s one woman show, Jazz Desert) the independent
film, Contemplating Emily; and the world premiere of Amy Kohn’s
radio-opera, One Plum Square for WNYC. Lisa is also Drama League alum,
a Fox Fellow, and a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program
and Director’s Lab.
