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CARL FORSMAN is the Artistic Director of New York's Keen Company and Vermont's Dorset Theatre Festival. Keen Company, a New York theater devoted to the production of sincere plays, received the 2005 Drama Desk Special Award, "for moving and enlightening audiences with plays that build upon our theatrical heritage," and was the 2008 recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Grant. His directions for Keen include the world premieres Keen's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Beasley's Christmas Party, Michael Murphy's The Conscientious Objector, John Belluso's Pyretown, Keith Reddin's Can't Let Go and David Auburn's adaptation The Journals of Mihail Sebastian, the American premiere of Conor McPherson's The Good Thief (OBIE Award for Brian d'Arcy James), the New York premiere of Matthew Burnett's Theophilus North based on Thornton Wilder's novel, and revivals of Heinar Kipphardt's In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Somerset Maugham's The Breadwinner, Thornton Wilder's The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Revival), John van Druten's Voice of the Turtle (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director), PG Wodehouse's Good Morning Bill, and Tina Howe's Museum. Other directing credits include Love Child (Primary Stages), Michael Murphy's Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) (OBIE Award, Production, Drama Desk nominations, Best Play & Best Actor) and Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Everything's Turning Into Beautiful for the New Group, and Tina Howe's new translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano & The Lesson for the Atlantic Theater Company, and A Few Good Men (Asolo). At the Dorset Theatre Festival he oversees The Kaufman Collection, DTF's commitment to produce all the stage comedies of George S. Kaufman, begun in 2007 with his production of Dulcy. He earned his BA at Middlebury College and currently teaches at NYU/Atlantic.
Bio as of June, 2009.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Theatre Intern Group Panelist - 2008
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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