Jean Randich, Drama
A director, writer, and librettist specializing in new works, music theater, opera, and re-envisioned classics. Randich's recent credits include Sophocles' Antigone, Len Jenkin's Kraken, Jose Rivera's Marisol, Catherine Filloux's Silence of God, and the Filloux/Hwang opera, The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston's Drawn to Death, a three panel opera, Karen Hartman's Girl Under Grain (winner, Best Drama, New York International Fringe Festival, 2000), and Jonathan Larson's J.P. Morgan Saves The Nation. Randich has also directed in Germany and Norway, and represented the U.S. as the American Juror at the 15th Session of the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theater, September 2003. As a writer, Randich was awarded the 2002 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant for her collaborative musical adaptation of a silent classic, The Unknown. She was also commissioned by the Dallas Opera to write the libretto for a chamber opera, The Miraculous Phonograph Record. Randich is the recipient of a NEA/TCG Director Fellowship and a Fox Foundation Fellowship. Affiliations include a Mabou Mines Artist residency, 2001-02; former George Abbott Resident Director at New Dramatists; 2003 participant in New Dramatists' Playtime Series; Alumni of Drama League's New Directors/New Works and The Women's Project. BA Brown University; MA Brown University, Creative Writing; MFA, Yale School of Drama. She has taught at Bennington since 1995.
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