Guest Directors

Michael Alltop Durang, Durang
  • Michael is pleased to return to Ithaca after spending the summer of 1997 as a Drama League director at the Hangar Theatre where he directed The Reluctant Dragon for Kidstuff, and Cop-Out and Macbett in the Wedge. Other Hangar credits include fight choreography for The Rose Tattoo and The Complete Wks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), and Assistant Director for The Crucible. Michael spent three years in Syracuse in the MFA program for Drama, acting in several shows and directing The Good Woman of Setzuan for the Drama Department. He current;y lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and baby boy, and is very glad to have the oppertunity to travel back to CNY to work with Rachel Lampert and the Kitchen Theatre Company.
Michele Minnick Julie Johnson
  • Michele is a performer, director, writer, and Russian translator. Directing experience includes Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, The Danube by Maria Irene Fornes, and most recently, Tesseract in Blue. an origional piece with text by Catherine Scarboro. Tesseract in Blue was presented on the American Living Room Series in NYC. She is also a member of East Coast Artists (Artistic Director Richard Schecher), and translated and performed in his version of Chekhov's Three Sisters. Michele is a graduate of Vassar College, the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School, The Norwich University Russian School, and has trained extensively with Anne Bogart and the SITI company.
Nickole Epp Valley Song
  • Nicole is pleased to make her American proffesional directing debut at the Kitchen Theatre. Recently, Nicole directed Aphra Behn's The City Heiredd at Wells where she was a Professor of Theatre. Prior to that experience, Nicole directed several productions in Canada with the University of Calgary (where she recieved her MFA in Directing). Some directing credits include: Just Yell Fire (a collaborative creation), Personal Convictions by Vivienne Laxdale, Girls Night Out by Diane Montgomery, and Sticky Fingers by Eve Lewis. Additionally, Nicole has staged managed Sticks & Stones by James Reaney, and Oh My Baby for the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

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