NEED Directing Staff Database: Steve Capra

Specialties

	Non-traditional venues
	Readings

Cabaret

Stage (Representative)

London Fringe
The Byt Company:
-- No Fellow Traveler, She (Bryk) - presented in front of simultaneous projections of Eisenstein films, and combined with Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry; with The London Film Society

Off-Off-Broadway
Theatre for the New City, Lower East Side Festival:
-- Be What You Eat (D’Entremont) - black comedy
-- Four Keynote Speeches (Capra) - four monologues, featuring Quentin Crisp

The Nameless Theatre:
-- The Marriage Proposal (Chekhov) - the farce played allegro
-- The Interlude at the Playhouse (Shaw) - a piece of Shavian fluff

La MaMa, E.T.C.:
-- Judas (Moses) - a solo script
-- Gaugin in Paradise (Holton) - a solo script

Boston/Cambridge
The Harlequin Theatre:
-- The Seagull (Chekhov) - deconstructing the script; with The North End Theatre
-- Readings from the Algonquin Round Table (Parker/Benchley/Zitrin/others) - with song
-- The American Dream (Albee) - with most lines addressed to the audience; with The Boston Arts Group
-- The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother (Allais) – classic French farce; with The Boston Arts Group

Center Stage:
-- The Zoo Story (Albee) - “...sensitive and intelligent direction” - The Boston Phoenix

The Artists’ Collaborative:
-- Living Together (Ayckbourn) - “The direction is brisk and stylish.” - The Boston Phoenix; with The North End Theatre
-- Waiting for Godot (Beckett) - presented in a rock bar
-- Married/Divorced (Davis) - two black-out sketches
-- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee) - focusing on the musicality of the dialogue
-- Not a Fairy Tale (Kafka/Capra) - including stories, excerpts from the diaries, and the play The Warden at the Tomb - “The interpretations are felicitous.” - The Boston Phoenix
-- The Childish Plumes: Readings from Emily Dickinson (Dickinson/Capra)
-- Not Waving But Drowning: Readings from Stevie Smith (Smith/Capra)

Theatre-in-Process
--How Ronald Reagan Finally Saved the World (Schott) - Brechtian politicizing

Cabaret
Boston/Cambridge/New York
various venues

Radio
Talking Information Center, Massachusetts Reading Network
-- Not a Fairy Tale (Kafka/Capra) – as above
-- The Childish Plumes: Readings from Emily Dickinson (Dickinson/Capra) – as above
-- Not Waving But Drowning: Readings from Stevie Smith (Smith/Capra) – as above
-- Mixed Interviews – a series of interviews
-- Mixed Reviews – a series of entertainment reviews
-- Mixed Readings – a series of readings

Readings/Script Development
New York
The Living Theater
Instant Shakespeare (with The New York Public Library)

Boston/Cambridge
Artists’ Collaborative
Playwright’s Platform
Theatre In Process

Teaching
Actors Workshop, Boston
Boston Center for Adult Education
Artists’ Collaborative, Boston
Private teaching, Boston, NYC
Training

Acting/Directing/Playwrighting
Jean-Claude Van Itallie
Michael Shurtleff
Prunella Scales (Actor’s Centre, London)
University of Manchester (UK)
HB Studio
University of Massachusetts

Cabaret/Musical Theater/Voice
Fred Silver
Beatrice Dobelle (Boston Conservatory)
HB Studio

Professional Affiliations

Actors Equity Association
Screen Actors Guild
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Board of Directors, New England Theater Conference
Chair, John Gassner Memorial Playwrighting Award Committee, 1996 – 2007