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"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
917 561 8704 m.

COLLABORATORS

BONE PORTRAITS

DEATH MIGHT BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS

BITE YOUR TONGUE

THE ELIOTS

THE FEMALE TERRORIST PROJECT

L'HISTOIRE DU CANARD: A Surrealist History of Truth in 20th Century America

TRANSFIGURES