contact: stephenbrownfried@gmail.com
Directing – Classical Work
2020 Julius Caesar American Players Theatre [upcoming]
2020 King Lear Northern Stage
2018 Henry VI National Asian American Theatre Company
New York Times Critic's Pick
Drama Desk Nominee for Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Costume Design
2016 Macbeth Northern Stage
2016 Our Town The Atlantic Theatre School
2015 Awake and Sing! The Public Theater, with National Asian American Theatre Company
Nominated for a Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play
2014 Paradise Lost The Yale School of Drama
2014 Henry V University of North Carolina School of the Arts
2013 Awake and Sing! National Asian-American Theatre Company
Winner of a Village Voice Obie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Mia Katigbak
As Associate Artist at Trinity Shakespeare Festival [Fort Worth, TX]:
2017 Richard III
2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream
2013 Julius Caesar
2012 Merchant of Venice
Named one of the best productions of 2012 by D Magazine, TheaterJones,
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Criticalrant.com
2011 Macbeth
Named one of the best productions of 2011 by D Magazine and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Recipient of 2011 DFW Theatre Critics’ Forum Award for Creative Contribution
2010 Much Ado About Nothing
Named best Shakespeare of 2010 by TheaterJones
At Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey [Madison, NJ]:
2014 - 2015: Artistic Associate & Casting Director
Past Productions:
2015 Misalliance
2010 All’s Well That Ends Well
2009 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2009 Macbeth
2008 The Comedy of Errors
2005 Coriolanus
Other classical work:
2013 As You Like It The New School for Drama
2012 Major Barbara Southern Methodist University
2012 Welcome to America [Rags] New Worlds Theatre Project
2012 The Trojan Women The New School for Drama
2011 Shakespeare’s R & J Virginia Commonwealth University
2011 Tosca Connecticut Lyric Opera
2011 Lysistrata University of Miami
2009 Richard III The New School for Drama
2009 Julius Caesar Gorilla Repertory Theater
2007 Love’s Labour’s Lost Illinois Shakespeare Festival
2007 The School for Wives Shakespeare Theatre Company
2007 Love’s Labour’s Lost [remount] Shakespeare Theatre Co. Free for All
2007 Henry IV, Part 1 Milwaukee Shakespeare
Directing – New Work
2019 Ian Manuel at Joe’s Pub (Ian Manuel) Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
2016 Naked Brazilian (Gustavo Pace) New York Fringe Festival
2016 The Ballad of Ella May (Cori Thomas) Working Theatre
2013 Meantime (Alexandra Gersten Vassilaros) NYU Tisch Graduate Acting
2010 Beautiful Province (Clarence Coo) Columbia School of the Arts
2009 His Daddy (Cori Thomas) Ensemble Studio Theatre / Going to the River
2009 Doing Business (Diana Hird) Artistic New Directions
2008 Orphan Island (Sarah Treem) [workshop] Sundance Theatre Lab
2008 Pac-off (Robert Askins) Ensemble Studio Theatre / Youngblood
2007 Haunted Prince (C. Brown, S. Fried, G. Sloan) Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
2004 The Boy Jumped Into the Sea (David Nugent) Yale School of Drama
2004 …,” said Said (Kenneth Lin) Hangar Theatre
2003 An All Hallows' Eve(Marcus Gardley) Yale Cabaret
2003 Love – All (Kenneth Lin) Yale School of Drama
2003 Empty Sky (Sarah Treem) Yale School of Drama
2002 Habeas Corpus: Meyerhold (Stephen Fried) Teatr.doc (Moscow, Russia)
Readings and Workshops:
at New Dramatists, Red Bull Theatre, Page 73, Gingold Theatrical Group / Project Shaw, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Writers’ Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Worlds Theatre Project, Goats & Monkeys, The Weston Playhouse, NYU Graduate Program in Musical Theatre Writing, Lark Play Development Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Theater J, Catalyst Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, the Actors’ Center, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Assistant Directing:
As Resident Assistant Director at Shakespeare Theatre Company (2005 - 2008):
for Michael Kahn: Tamburlaine, Richard III, The Beaux’s Stratagem, Love’s Labours’ Lost, Othello
for Ethan McSweeny: Major Barbara, The Persians
for Kjetil Bang-Hansen: An Enemy of the People
for Stephen Wadsworth: Don Juan
for Douglas C. Wager: The Comedy of Errors
Other Assistant Directing:
2004 The King Stag [musical] (Evan Yionoulis, dir.) Yale Repertory Theater
2002 Alcestis (Alec Toc, dir.) Yale School of Drama
Teaching Experience
2009-present The New School for Drama
2020-present: Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
2016-2020: Head of MFA Directing
2009-2016: Member of the MFA Directing Faculty, teaching classics and Shakespeare for directors and actors
2015-2020 The Yale School of Drama
Lecturer in Directing
2008-present Private Acting Coaching
2015 Yale College
Guest Lecturer, teaching the semester-long studio course, Acting Shakespeare
2013, 2016 Marymount Manhattan College
Adjunct instructor of acting
2010-2012, 2016 National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center
Teaches Shakespeare for actors and directors
2009-2015 Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Summer Professional Training Program
Teaches Acting and Text Analysis [Apprentice Program and Next Stage Ensemble]
2007 The Shakespeare Theatre Company: Master Acting Classes
Taught Mining Shakespeare’s Text, an adult-education class on Shakespearean text.
2004-05 Yale School of Drama
Teaching Assistant to Elizabeth Diamond, Chair of Directing
Fellowships / Awards
2016 Drama League Award Nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play: Awake and Sing!
2008 Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow
2005 Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in Directing (Yale School of Drama)
2004 Drama League Summer Directing Fellowship
2004 John Badham Scholarship (Yale School of Drama)
2003 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Training
2002 - 2005 Yale School of Drama MFA in Directing
Directing: Liz Diamond, David Chambers, Doug Hughes, Karin Coonrod
Acting: Evan Yionoulis, Peter Francis James, James Bundy
Design: Ming Cho Lee, Jennifer Tipton, Stephen Strawbridge, Jane Greenwood, David Budries
2002 Center for Theatre Practices at Gardzienice, Poland Summer Consortium
2000 Vakhtangov Theatre (Moscow, Russia) Internship / Tutorial
1998 - 2002 Stanford University B.A. with Distinction and Honors; Double maj. in Drama and History