Michael Goldfried
MICHAEL GOLDFRIED is a New York-based director of new and classic work, and a writer/director of visual, heightened theater that tests the boundaries of comedy and pathos. Michael is a current participant in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. He co-wrote and directed The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron with Stefano Brancato (Henson Carriage House). He directed and co-wrote the comedy Mrs Smith Presents: a Benefit for the Carlyle Foundation Empowerment School for People and Cats with Severe and Persistent Challenges with David Hanbury (American Repertory Theater.; Ars Nova; and The Southern Theater). He has adapted and directed numerous classics including Tartuffe, The Imaginary Invalid, Twelfth Night and The Rover. He directed the first revival Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Stage Blood and Mike Albo's Sexotheque at the Kraine/Red Room. New play directing and development includes the Summer Play Festival, The Public Theater/NYSF, New York Theater Workshop, Youngblood/EST, HERE, NYU and Brown University. Assisting included: Oskar Eustis (Trinity Rep & The Long Wharf); Peter Dubois (Public Theater); Les Waters (Berkeley Rep); Jerry Zaks (MTC/Broadway and Encores!). Alum of the Drama League Directors Project and Lincoln Center Director's Lab.. BA, Vassar; MFA, Brown/Trinity Rep. On Broadway Michael has assisted Jerry Zaks on Losing Louis and Stairway to Paradise. Off-Broadway directing credits include: two seasons with the Summer Play Festival: Novel and Gardening Leave; 365 Plays/365 Days (Joe's Pub and the Public Theater); Kahn and Kant (45th Street Theater - Drama League Directors Project); On the Threshold (co-director of new work by Brown MFA playwrights at the Public Theater). At Ars Nova, he directed two Wikipedia Plays and worked with Beau Willimon (Lower Ninth). Off-Broadway and Regional assistant directing credits include productions with: Oskar Eustis (The Long Christmas Ride Home, Trinity Repertory Company and The Long Wharf Theater); Les Waters (Finn in the Underworld, Berkeley Repertory Company); Peter DuBois (Measure for Pleasure, The Public Theater) and Blanka Zizka (The Other Side, Manhattan Theater Club). He assisted Craig Lucas on the premiere of Singing Forest (directed by Bartlett Sher at the Intiman Theater). He is the recipient of directing fellowships from the Manhattan Theater Club, The Drama League and the Geva Theater Center. He is an alum of the Drama League Director's Project and Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Michael Goldfried is a member of the first graduating class of the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium (MFA '05), and studied directing under Oskar Eustis; Paula Vogel; Kevin Moriarty and Amanda Dehnert. At the Consortium, he directed new plays by Brown University MFA playwrights Jordan Harrison, Deborah Stein and Laura Schellhardt. Additional Consortium directing credits include: Twelfth Night; The Infernal Machine; In the Heart of America and The Imaginary Invalid (adapted by Michael Goldfried with original music by Amanda Dehnert). As a Geva Theater Fellow, Michael Goldfried directed his own adaptation of Tartuffe at Suny Brockport. Michael Goldfried holds a BA in Drama from Vassar College, and has trained at BADA (British American Drama Academy) in London; The Barrow Group; and with Mike Nichols. As a young native New Yorker, Michael attended drama school at The Neighborhood Playhouse and was a drama major at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. Before directing, Michael Goldfried acted in numerous plays, and wrote and performed the solo show The Making of Michael Gold (PS 122, HERE, Kraine and PSNBC) as well as Enter, Then Pause in San Francisco and regionally. His extensive background in improvisation includes work with Gotham City Improv; UCB; Holly Mandel/Improvolution; San Francisco Bay Area Theatersports (BATS) and Liquid Soap. Bio as of September, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) 2010 DCN: Directors Programs Applications - October, 2010 - Listen Now. Website: www.michaelgoldfried.com