Introduction to Directing
Credits: 1.5
Core course for Second year
Ariel Sereni Brown
Ariel Sereni Brown explores the connection between grand stage traditions and marginal cultures. His works examine how cultural, geographic, and political environments spill into the imagined space of the theater stage, navigating between the fantastic and the concrete, the familiar and the strange. From an abandoned bank vault to a miniature puppet theater and a nomadic tent, Brown invents and discovers new forms in which theater can be born and die. His works have been praised and presented in Greenland, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, and Israel.
The Water Boy and the Waters
Creator and performer – HaZira Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel
Future X: Globalization
Lead creator (in collaboration with Yonatan Omer Mizrahi) – Sydhavn Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kaunas Wi-Fi
Director – Kaunas National Theatre, Kaunas, Lithuania
Zula 2000
Director and performer (in collaboration with Maya Landsman) – Akko Fringe Festival. Won the directing prize at the festival for the show "Zula 2000"
Afs Uomo Maniac
Director and performer – The Home Theater. Selected in 2018 to present as part of “International Exposure” / IsraDrama. Presented at theater festivals in Serbia and Lithuania
Not Bringing It Home
Performer – a show by Jason Danino Holt. Selected in 2017 to present as part of “International Exposure” / IsraDrama
Shelter 02
Performer – a show by Ilail Lev-Knaan, Akko Fringe Festival. Won best supporting actor award for the show "Shelter 02"
Introduction to Directing begins with action. In our very first class, we will create and stage a performance.
Only then will we turn to the workbench: reading manifestos, exploring stage technologies and theatre architecture, practicing critical writing through shared viewings, drafting potential performances, and building scale models.
In our time together, we will insist on reimagining the stage not as the finish line of the theatrical creation, but as its starting point. And so, at the end of the semester, we will return to where it all began, and put on another show.
