Alice Reagan
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Directing
Department
Theatre
Office
505 Milbank Hall
Office Hours, Fall 2021: Tuesdays 2-4pm EST in person, or zoom
Contact
212-854-6027
areagan@barnard.edu
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Alice Reagan teaches and directs plays at Barnard; she also directs professionally.? Pre-pandemic credits include No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh by Christina Masciotti at Yocum Institute in Reading, PA; Hir by Taylor Mac at Shakespeare & Company (two Berkshire Theatre Award nominations); Grounded?by George Brant at Dobama Theatre (Cleveland Critics Circle Superior Production, Superior Direction, and Best Actress); Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue by Quiara Alegría Hudes at Profile Theatre in Portland, Oregon; Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek at Boom Arts; Or, by Liz Duffy Adams at Shakespeare & Company (seven Berkshire Theatre Award nominations including Best Director); Phaeton (a diggle of a fragment) by Mac Wellman at Classic Stage Company; The Miser by Molière with Brave New World Rep; Nomads by Julia Jarcho at Incubator Arts Project; I Came to Look for You on Tuesday by Chiori Miyagawa at La MaMa; The Verge by Susan Glaspell at Incubator Arts Project; and Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Chocolate Factory.? She has directed many plays by María Irene Fornés, including: Promenade, Enter THE NIGHT, What of the Night?, Drowning, Abingdon Square, and The Office.
Upon arriving at Barnard in 2010, Alice founded a commissioning program that brings women-identified writers to the college.? Through New Plays at Barnard, she has premiered work by LM Feldman, Dipika Guha, Gab Reisman, and Charly Evon Simpson.
She has workshopped and directed readings of new plays at Page 73, Soho Rep, Partial Comfort Productions, Women’s Project, New Georges, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New Dramatists, Lark Play Development Center, hotINK, and New Voices Play Festival.
Upcoming: Evelyn Brown: A Diary by María Irene Fornés for the Princeton Atelier/Lewis Center for the Arts, The Cherry Orchard with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, and?Measure for Measure with Shakespeare & Company.
B.A. Bates College
M.A. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
M.F.A. Columbia University, School of the Arts
Directing
Collaboration
Classics
New plays
Adaptations
Ensemble-based work
Directing I
Directing II
Advanced Directing
Collaboration: Directing and Design
Practicum Performance
First Year Seminar: Classics Over Time
First Year Seminar: Art, AIDS, Activism
9 Berkshire Theatre Award nominations, including Best Director, for Or, and Hir
Cleveland Critics Circle Superior Production, Superior Direction, and Best Actress for Grounded
Drama League Directing Fellow
Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program/SUITE
Princess Grace Award
Princess Grace Special Project Award
chashama AREA (Accessing Space for the Arts) Award
Shubert Foundation Stipend, Columbia University
Amankulor Award, NYU/Tisch
Mellon Learning Associate, Bates College
Wingspace Design
New Georges Affiliated Artist
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Mabou Mines/SUITE
Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab
Women's Project Directors Lab
Lincoln Center Directors Lab
Teaching While White
American Theatre - New Plays at Barnard
American Theatre - Maria Irene Fornes
TCG Circle