COLLABORATORS (scroll down for full list)
"I like the collision of too-large emotion finding expression in bold physicality, and too-large questions explored with ordinary objects turned upside-down"-Lear de Bessonet
Artistic Director, Lear deBessonet
Lear deBessonet (Time Out New York's "25 People to Watch 2006") is the founder and artistic director of Stillpoint Productions. Her many New York directing/devising credits include Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards (PS122), transFigures (a site-specific work at Calvary Church in 2003, produced Off-Broadway by Womens Project in 2007), Bone Portraits (Walkerspace), Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (a site-specific work performed at an abandoned bank next to the NY Stock Exchange), Flying on the Wing (NY Fringe, Outstanding Solo Show), The Eliots (Center Stage), The Female Terrorist Project (HERE Arts Center). Regional: When I Was a Ghost (Guthrie Dowling Studio), A Year With Frog and Toad (Dorset Theatre Festival), Equus (Hangar Theatre). For NYU: Fefu and Her Friends, L'Histoire du Canard, Bite Your Tongue. Internationally, Lear directed In the Dark Ages, a new tri-lingual musical for the National Opera Theatre of Kazakhstan. She has assisted Martha Clarke, Anne Bogart, and Marianne Weems, and has trained with DAH Theater of Yugoslavia. She is an alumnus of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Women's Project Directors Lab, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a Jefferson Scholar. Lear is the recipient of the LMCC’s Presidential Award for Artistic Excellence.
lear@stillpointproductions.org
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COLLABORATORS
BONE PORTRAITS
- Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Writer: Deborah Stein
- Co-Created and Performed by Michael Crane, Gian-Murray Gianino, Adam Green, Miriam Silverman, Jessica Wortham
- Set Design: Justin Townsend
- Lighting Design: Justin Townsend
- Film & Video Design: Greg King
- Costume Design: Kirche Leigh Zeile
- Sound Design: Mark "Muttt" Huang
- Stage Manager: Dave Polato*
- Production Manger: Ben Sterling
- Assistant Director: Michael Perlman
- Producer: Anne Erbe
- Graphic Design: Greg King & Sari Mizrahi
- Web Design: Claire Iltis
DEATH MIGHT BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS
- Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Created and Performed by Sara Barker, Gillian Chadsey, Jonny Green, Nicholas Job, Jamie King, Dave Laufgraben, Anne Robinson, Robert Satietta, Lucy Smith
- Scenic Design: Michael Casselli
- Lighting Design: Beth Turomsha
- Costume Design: Sarah Maiorino
- Sound Design: Raul Enriquez
- Additional Workshop Collaborators: Trevor Davis, Tara Schoch-Fredrickson, Meghan Hart, Julia Holleman, Alana Jackler, Sauda Jackson, Kathryn Merry, Matt West
BITE YOUR TONGUE
- Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Performer: Aran Cravey
- Sound Design: Jamie McElhinney
THE ELIOTS
- Concept and Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Collaborating Writer: Caridad Svich
- Created and Performed by: Christopher Logan Healy, Julie Kline, Lethia Nall, Nate Schenkkan, Ryan West
- Set Design: Donyale Werle
- Lighting Design: Beth Turomsha
- Costume Design: Kirche Leigh Zeile
- Sound design: Mark Huang
- Projection Design: Gregory King
- Choreography: Nate Schenkkan
- Props Design: Donyale Werle
- Ballroom Dances: Kate Enright
- Production Stage Manager: Jen Stamey
THE FEMALE TERRORIST PROJECT
- Writer: Ken Urban
- Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Performers: Ani Bluhm, Gillian Chadsey, Maha Chehlaoui, Carrie Keranen, Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper, and Nate Schenkkan
- Developed in workshop by: Kate Benson, Gillian Chadsey, Maha Chehlaoui, Danyon Davis, Kristen Gass, and Nate Schenkkan
- Lighting Design: Beth Turomsha
- Sound Design: Mark Huang
- Stage Manager: Jenny Lazar
L'HISTOIRE DU CANARD: A Surrealist History of Truth in 20th Century America
- Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Created and Performed by: Mike Crane, Manoel Felciano, Adam Green, and Emily Swallow
- Lighting design: Stacey Boggs
- Sound design: Manoel Felciano
TRANSFIGURES
- Concept and Direction: Lear deBessonet
- Created and Performed by Kate Enright, Gian-Murray Gianino, Erik A. Johnson, Julie Kline, Ilia Dodd Loomis, Megan Riordan and Nate Schenkkan
- Writer: Bathsheba Doran
- Set Design: Jenny Sawyers
- Lighting Design: Beth Turomsha
- Costume Design: Janine Marie McCabe
- Sound Design: Mark Huang
- Stage Manager: Jen Stamey
- Postcard Design by Greg King
- Produced by Ebs Burnough and Lear deBessonet
