Dara Malina   

Theatre Director       

 

Devised Work

The Blanche Project

     Columbia Stages, Dec 2012

Hysteria Project/beautiful women eating cake
     Grace Exhibition Space, Nov 2011
     Wildlife Gallery, Feb 2012
     chashama, Feb 2012 & April 2012

les boudoirs des deux femmes
     
chashama, June 2011
     
Grace Exhibition Space, March 2011

trans. : an installation piece
     
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Aug 2012

 

Directing

Howl by Laura Zlatos

Columbia Stages

 

Birds by Ting-Ying Ma

Columbia Stages

 

Chant D'Amour by Matthew Minnicino

Columbia Stages

 

The Elephant Calf by Bertolt Brecht

Williamstown Theatre Festival

 

Summer in the Country by Anton Chekhov

Williamstown Theatre Festival

 

New Year's Eve by Donald Margulies

Williamstown Theatre Festival

 

I Love Dead Things by Caitlin Saylor Stephens

Dixon Place

 

Barnaby by Liza Birkenmeier

BoCoCa Arts Festival

Winner Best Show

The Money Show by Lauren Murphy & Megan Maczko

HERE Arts Center

Associate Director

Plight of the Apothecary by Liza Birkenmeier

Brooklyn Arts Exchange

 

Robin Hood: Prince of…MONSTERS! by Daniel John Kelley

Irondale Center

Brooklyn Book Festival

Constriction by Jennifer Barclay

Looking Glass Theatre Company

 

Emperor's New…MONSTERS! by Daniel John Kelley

The Brooklyn Lyceum

 

The Secret Garden of…MONSTERS! by Daniel John Kelley

The Brooklyn Lyceum

 

Twas the Night Before…MONSTERS! by Daniel John Kelley

The Brooklyn Lyceum

 

Mud by Maria Irene Fornes

A. E. Hotchner Studio Theatre; St. Louis, MO

Thesis production

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Graham Chapel; St. Louis, MO

 

365 Plays/Days- Constants 1 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks

Various locations; St. Louis, MO

 

Terminating or Lass Meine Schmertzen Nicht Veloren Seine or Ambivalence  by Tony Kushner               

A. E. Hotchner Studio Theatre; St. Louis, MO

 

 

Assistant Directing

"8" by Dustin Lance Black

Williamstown Theatre Festival

Dir. Matt McGrath

Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon

Williamstown Theatre Festival

Dir. Jessica Stone

Jack Perry is Alive (and Dating) by Harrison David Rivers & Daniella Shoshan

New York Musical Theatre Festival

Dir. Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Playing in Traffic by Women's Project Playwrights Lab

Women's Project/Ensemble Studio Theatre

Dir. Alice Reagan

The Verge by Susan Glaspell

Performance Lab 115/Ontological Hysteric

Dir. Alice Reagan

Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht

Performance Lab 115/The Chocolate Factory

Dir. Alice Reagan

The American Capitalism Project

TEAM/BRIC Lab

Dir. Rachel Chavkin

Othello    

St. Louis Shakespeare Company

Dir. Donna Northcott

 

Education & Training

Columbia University School of the Arts – Class of 2015

MFA Directing candidate

 

Washington University in St. Louis

BA cum laude in Drama & Art History (Awarded John G. Jutkowitz Memorial Prize in Performing Arts)

 

The Globe Theatre: Acting & Directing Intensive –Recipient of the Frank F Fowle Theatre Scholarship

 

Theatre of the Emerging American Moment (TEAM)

 Workshop: Instruction in Devising Theatre Within a Democracy

Assistant to Rachel Chavkin

 

Related Experience

The Secret City, Volunteer 2011

La MaMa ETC, Production Manager La MaMa Moves 2009

Women's Project, Artistic Intern 2008