Ellen Orenstein
Title
Associate Professor of Theatre ArtsShe/Her/Hers
Department
Theatre ArtsPhone
212-774-4873About
Ellen Orenstein is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and the Coordinator for Freshman/Sophomore Acting at Marymount Manhattan College. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Washington.
Degree(s)
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., University of Washington
Recent Work
Publications:
Defying Gravity: Physics, Art and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.” (book chapter),Stages to Performance. Scheduled release Summer-Fall 2009.
Presentations/Productions:
Director, Surfacing (staged reading). Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. New York, NY. June 2009.
Director, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre: Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 2008.
Teaching
Acting I (Contemporary)
Acting II (American Realism)
Viewpoints
Professional Experience
Productions directed at Marymount include: The Arsonists, Reckless, Our Town, The Adding Machine, In The Boom Boom Room, This Property Is Condemned. Other New York productions include: The Human Variations (25CPW Red Roots Gallery, NYC), Allegro (25CPW Gallery, NYC), Largo (CV Lounge at the Hotel on Rivington, NYC), Scherzo (Alice’s Teacup, NYC), Tartuffe (SUNY Purchase), Necropolis (Manhattan Theatre Source), The Seagull (assistant director), featuring Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming (Classic Stage Company), and the staged reading of Surfacing (Most Outstanding Overall Production of a Reading nomination, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity).
In 2007, Ellen was a participant in the 8th Annual International Symposium for Directors with Andrei Serban, Yoshi Oida, Enrique Pardo, Putu Wijaya, Petar Todorov and Annie-B Parson (La MaMa Umbria International, Spoleto, Italy).
Her writing has been published in American Theatre, TheatreForum International Theatre Journal and Theatre Journal, and she is currently co-adapting Kathryn Harrison’s novel Exposure for the stage.
Ellen is the Co-Artistic Director/Founder of the Blueprint Theater Project, for which she co-created and directed The Human Variations.