February 9, 2016
Speakers: Reginald L. Douglas, and Clare Drobot
from CITY THEATRE website
Founded in 1975, City Theatre began as the City Players, a touring company that performed in schools, parks, and housing projects. By the end of the decade, the City Players were offered residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and, with an official home, City Theatre was born. read more at their website.
Tracy Brigden (Artistic Director): The 2015-2016 season will mark Tracy’s fifteenth year as City Theatre’s Artistic Director. Most recently at City Theatre, she directed Midsummer by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre and Elemeno Pea by Molly Smith Metzler. Past City Theatre directing credits include the world premiere of Hope and Gravity, the American premiere of The Monster in the Hall, the world premiere of Louder Faster, and productions of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,Abigail/1702, Seminar, Time Stands Still, Precious Little, The 39 Steps, Shooting Star, The Clockmaker, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Other City Theatre directing credits include the premieres of plays by Christopher Durang, Adam Rapp, Keith Reddin, Eve Ensler, and Helen Edmondson, among others. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, Tracy was Associate Artistic Director of Hartford Stage in Connecticut and Artistic Associate for Manhattan Theatre Club. Other directing credits include productions at both regional and New York theatres, including Atlantic Theater Company, TheatreWorks Palo Alto, Westport Playhouse, the Hangar, CATF, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. Awards and honors include Pittsburgh Magazine’s “40 Under 40″ and the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Production and Best Director.
Reginald L. Douglas is the Artistic Producer of the City Theatre Company, and a director with a passion for new play development. Reginald has worked extensively throughout the country at venues including the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Playwrights Center, McCarter Theatre, Luna Stage, the Wild Project, Pershing Square Signature Center, Drama League, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Culture Project, Theater Row, BRIC Arts Media, DR2, Soho Playhouse, Billie Holiday Theatre, Horse Trade, Baruch College, and many others. Reginald has developed and directed plays by many acclaimed writers including Jerome Fellow Josh Wilder, Obie Award-winner Nikkole Salter, Laura Brienza, Amy Evans, Angelica Chéri, James MacLindon, Natalia Naman, Bil Wright, and several others. In addition, Reginald has received fellowships from New York Theater Workshop and the Lark Play Development Center; is a member of the Actors Studio’s Playwrights and Directors Unit; and has assistant directed for several leading players in the field on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. His work has been hailed by The New York Times, The Village Voice, Talkin’ Broadway, Stage Buddy, and other leading publications, and his production of Master Harold…and the boys was named one of the Top 10 shows of 2014 by The Star Ledger.
Clare Drobot (Director of New Play Development): Clare has worked in theater as a dramaturg, literary manager, and casting associate since 2005. Prior to joining City Theatre she was the resident dramaturg/producing associate at Premiere Stages, the professional theatre in residence at Kean University. Clare was also a literary associate for Passage Theatre in Trenton and ran the reading series Untitled at Happy Ending in New York. Clare has worked in various capacities at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The McCarter Theatre, The BE Company, Two River Theater, Theater for the New City, Laura Stanczyk Casting, and New Dramatists. She has helped to develop works by Dominique Morisseau, James McManus, Chisa Hutchinson, Tammy Ryan, Kathryn Grant, Tom Matthew Wolfe, Erik Gernand, and Darren Canady among others. She is a Carnegie Mellon graduate and a member of LMDA and the WGA.
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