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Kyle Lewis - Creative Director/Theatre Arts
Conservatory
Kyle is a director
(Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society),
designer, writer, actor (Member, Actors' Equity Association), and
artist. He has directed for various professional
theatres, universities, and pre-professional training institutions; taught for
public schools, private schools, and conservatories; and served as
director, president, artistic director and coordinator for numerous
arts organizations.
In 1996 he
graduated from Weber State University with a degree in theatre
education and in 2011 he received an MFA in Directing from Arizona
State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts - the
University's primary focus being research in collaborative methods
that investigate the future of theatre. His involvement included
instruction from One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Anne Bogart & SITI Company,
EL Teatro Campesino, and The Laboratory for the Development of
Substitute Materials.
Kyle has over 20 years of theatre experience and
has directed over 100 productions. His projects have included
everything from full-scale musicals (The
Pirates of Penzance, Grease, Little
Shop of Horrors), to
Shakespeare (Hamlet,
Richard III, Measure for Measure), to
conceptually challenging productions (Ubu
Roi, The Elephant Man,
Macbeth), to working with playwrights
on new works (In the Penal Colony,
Am:I, Mesa Verde), and even devised
productions (Broken Verses, The
Miranda Project, Dreaming Darwin, And What She Found There).
His
students have continued their work in theatre on Broadway, in
television, and film, and in leading professional training programs
such as The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, New York University, The
New Actor’s Workshop, The New School for Drama, Stella Adler Academy
of Acting and Theatre, Boston University, DePaul University,
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Cirque Du Soleil, to name a few.
For
more information about Kyle - visit his website:
www.creativeagenda.org |