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DANIELLA TOPOL is a New-York based freelance theater director primarily focused on working with writers to develop and direct relevant, theatrical and adventuresome new plays and musicals. Upcoming productions include: How The World Began by Catherine Treischmann, South Coast Rep (September 2011), and Women's Project, NYC (January 2012), The Sugarhouse at The Edge of The Wilderness by Carla Ching, Ma-Yi Theatre, NYC, (November 2011), Jesus in India by Lloyd Suh, Magic Theatre, SF (February 2012), Electric Baby by Stefanie Zadravec, Quantum Theatre, PA (March 2012). Recent productions include: Rajiv Joseph's Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre, Houston, TX), Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51 (Theatre J, Washington D.C.), Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strad (City Theatre, PA), Chiori Miyagawa's Firedance (Bard College), Jeff Hughes and Scott Ethier's Red Clay (NAMT Festival of New Musicals, Richard Rodgers Development Award at Queens Theatre in the Park/Playwrights Horizons under previous title Rosa Parks), Janet Allard and Niko Tsakalakos' Pool Boy (Barrington Stage), Sheila Callaghan's Lascivious Something (Women's Project/Cherry Lane), Susan Bernfield's Stretch: A Fantasia (People's Light and Theatre Company, PA), Maria Irene Fornes' SARITA(Fordham University), Nicki Bloom's Tender (Summer Play Festival), Susan Yankowitz's Night Sky (Power Productions/Baruch Performing Arts Center), Leslie Ayvazian's Carol and Jill (EST), Caridad Svich's Instructions for Breathing (Passage Theatre), Jakob Holder's Housebreaking (Cherry Lane), Trista Baldwin's Forgetting (Workhaus Collective), Sean Hartley, Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's Little Women: The Musical (Village Theatre), Judith Thompson's Palace of the End (Epic), Trista Baldwin's Sand (Women's Project and Productions), Peter Gil-Sheridan's Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane Theatre), Stanton Wood's Snow Queen (Urban Stages), Susan Bernfield's Tiny Feats Of Cowardice, and Sheila Callaghan's Dead City (New Georges). Originally from the suburbs of Washington, DC, Daniella moved to Pittsburgh to get her undergraduate degree in directing from Carnegie Mellon where she also received her Masters of Arts Management. She became the Associate Producing Director of City Theatre, where she directed plays while developing programming for the Lester Hamburg Studio Theatre and running the education and literary departments. Daniella then moved to New York and became the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, then became the Managing Director and subsequently the Artistic Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center until June 2008. She is currently a member of the board of the Lark Play Development Center and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and has been a grants review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NY State Council on the Arts and TCG. She is a NYTW Usual Suspect, member of EST, a Women's Project Lab alumnus, and a New Georges affiliated artist.
Bio as of October, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
2003 Symposium: Musical Theatre - June, 2003 - Listen Now.
Website:
www.daniellatopol.com
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