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Sheila Hickey Garvey
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International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT - Short and Neat

            - Jerry Thompson's THE ELEVATOR - JUNE 2004

            - Thomas G. Dunn's  THE NATURE OF LOVE - JUNE 2002

            - Mark Lambeck’s  MELBA IN 603 - JUNE 2001

          - Jerry Shaff’s A REASONABLE REQUEST - June 2000

Staged Readings

            The New England Theatre Conference

            - Ann Marie Shea LAND'S END CAFÉ - 2007

New England Academy of Theatre

            - Jennifer Hawkins FLY FISHING IN TRIBECA - 2000

            International Conference - The Bores Symposium, Dickinson College

            - Recitations of the poetry of Jorges Louis Borges for Jorges Louis Borges - 1983

Independently produced by Ricco Productions

Kendall Drama Lab, Lyman Center for the Performing Arts  and the annual convention of the New England Theater Conference

            - Daniel Ort’s IS THIS THE END OF LITTLE RICCO - 1997

For the Department of Theater of  Southern Connecticut State Univ.

Main Stage, The Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, New Haven, CT.

            - Catherine Filloux  ALL DRESSED UP AND NOWHERE TO GO -2009

            - Shirley Lauro  A PIECE OF MY HEART - 2007

MERIT AWARD American College Theatre Festival 2008 Region I -        "Outstanding Women's Initiative Production"

            - De Filippo  SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY - 2007

            - Nilo Cruz  ANNA in the TROPICS - 2005

                        First Alternate American College Theatre Festival 2005 Region I          - Kaufman and Hart LIGHT UP THE SKY - 2002

            - Helen Edmundson THE CLEARING - 2002

            - Shakespeare TWELFTH NIGHT- 2001

            - O’Neill AH, WILDERNESS! - 1998

            - Goldoni A SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS - 1998

            - Kaufman and Hart YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU - 1997

            - August Wilson JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE   -   1993

Kendall Drama Lab, The Lyman Center for the Performing Arts

            - Ellen Kaplan  PULLING APART (World Premiere) 2005

                        Winner of the Moss Hart Award

- Rebecca Gilman  SPINNING INTO BUTTER - 2003

                        First Alternate American College Theatre Festival 2004 Region I         

            - Arthur Kopit Oh Dad Poor Dad (Mama’s Hung You in the Closet.....) - 1999

            - Shakespeare MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING -   1995

            - Christopher Durang THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO   - 1994

            - Emily Mann EXECUTION OF JUSTICE   -   1994

            - Chekhov THE CHERRY ORCHARD -   1991

            - Ann Comier STARTING MONDAY   -   1991

                        First Alternate American College Theatre Festival 1992 Region I

Moss Hart Award Nominee            

-  John Guare THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES - 1989

-  A. R. Gurney THE DINING ROOM 1989                                                                            

For the Department of Theater of Dickinson College

The Mathers Theatre, Carlisle Pennsylvania

              -  O’Neill AH, WILDERNESS 1988

              -  George Kaufman and Edna Ferber THE ROYAL FAMILY   -   1987

              -  Michael Weller LOOSE ENDS - 1987

              -  Moliere THE MISANTHROPE   -   1985

              -  Shakespeare THE WINTER’S TALE - 1984

              -  Tennessee Williams CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF   -   1983

              -  Elmer Rice STREET SCENE   -   1982   

              -  Chekhov A COUNTRY SCANDAL   -   1982                                               

For the Department of Theater , Rutgers University (Camden, N.J.)

            - Brecht THE INFORMER - 1981

For the Department of Theater , Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)

            - Moliere THE MISANTHROPE - 1974   GRADUATE DIRECTING AWARD

Professional Training: 

Ph.D. New York University (Tisch) PERFORMANCE STUDIES, 1984

M.A., Northwestern University,Evanston, Ill., DIRECTING, 1973

B.S. Emerson College, Boston, Mass., THEATER, 1971;

The Circle in the Square Professional Acting School (Graduate), 1973-1975 (1633 Broadway, New York); 

Additional:

The International Film and Video Workshops, Rockport, Maine

            "Acting Techniques for Directors", Alan Meyerson  (2006)

ACTF/Kennedy Center Directing Fellow, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., (Master Classes in Stage Directing - The Conceptual Team) Gerald Freedman, Patricia Zipprodt, Ming Cho Lee (1992)

Professional Actors/Directors Workshop -  Nikos Psacharopoulos (New York, N.Y.(1980-81)

Sheila Hickey Garvey, Ph.D.
Professor of Theatre, (Acting/Directing)
Southern Connecticut State University
Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
New Haven, CT.   06515