ANDREW FRANK
director/writer
andrewfrank.com - Member SSDC - 917.568.4692
Off-Broadway, NY
@Dodger Stages Sidd, a new musical based on the classic novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (‘06) “Deserves a standing ovation . . . that's what the audience gave it the night I attended”-Broadway.com National Tour Scheduled for Fall ‘07
@The Duke Theatre on 42 nd St. Isadora Duncan: No Apologies ('03) and In Search of a Goddess ('04). Both pieces were large scale “dance/theatre” plays written and created around the life and work of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, respectively, with contemporary choreographers Lori Belilove and Dalia Carella. “Ingeniously told . . . heartfelt” - NYTimes, “richly visual and cleverly theatrical” - Backstage, “a captivating and handsome dance/theatre play” - Village Voice
@Manhattan Theatre Source Three Sisters adapted from a new translation by Boris Kievsky ('04)
The NYTimes wrote “A timeless play in an absorbing production . . . directed by Andrew Frank it sweeps in its understated way across a panorama of yearning, frustrated dreams and ambition . . .” AND Woyzeck adapted from a new translation by Laura Schlactmeyer ('05) Martin Denton in NYTheatre.com wrote “Andrew Frank's new production is every bit the angst-ridden young man's fever dream that it is billed as . . . It is, all in all, an effective and totally cool staging.”
@The Ohio Theatre King Gordogan by Croatian Playwright Radovan Ivsic. ('98)
The NYTimes wrote of this European classic, “Unaccountably the first production of this play in the US . . . this production - is as stealthily unsettling as it ought to be. . . an edgy enchantment is created . . . directed by Frank the audience feels the full force of the play's subversive language."
@Theatre Three @311 w.43 rd St Accomplice by Rupert Holmes ('02)
Rupert Holmes called this production “the most inventive he has ever seen.”
Regional
StageOne in Witchta , Kansas I do, I do ('05)
Staller Center - LI, NY The Marriage of Figaro ('06) and Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten ('05)
Guild Hall – LI, NY Viva La Vida, by Diane Shaffer w/Mercedes Ruehl/Jeffrey Tambour ('04)
Bristol Valley Theatre in Naples , NY I Hate Hamlet , Romance Romance ('04)
Roschel Performing Arts Center , PA Three Penny Opera ('03)
Warehouse Theatre , S.C. Eaten Alive a solo play by Mimi Wyche ('02)
Greenview Arts, Chicago Jack the Chipper , by Tony Award winning Mark Hollman ('96)
Glimmerglass Opera Don Pasquale tour designed by John Conklin ('96)
Berkshire Theatre Festival An Evening of Shakespeare acted by the intern company at BTF ('95)
Manhattan Theatre Source (Founder and Artistic Director ‘00 – '05; now chair of the Advisory Board)
At Manhattan Theatre Source Andrew has produced, directed, and developed over a hundred new plays by playwrights including: Sheila Callaghan, Anton Dudley, Richard Vetere, Gary Garrison, Dominic Orlando, Michel Wallerstein, Josh James, and John Mighton
At NYU, Department of Dramatic Writing ('02 – ‘05)
Adjunct Faculty Member Teaches "Directing for Playwrights"