Joanne Gordon, Artistic Director of California Repertory Company and
Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at CSULB, is an award-winning
director whose accolades include five Drama-Logue Awards, a Los Angeles
Critics Choice Award and being named "Best of the Year" by the Los Angeles
Times. Her adaptation and production of Love,
Bukowski was nominated
for several awards by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, which also
conferred on Cal Rep the Polly Warfield Award. As an internationally
renowned Sondheim scholar, she has directed a number of this extraordinary
artist’s works worldwide, including the first Chinese language production
of West Side Story in Beijing. Published work includes Stephen
Sondheim: A Casebook; frequent contributions to The
Sondheim Review and
Art Isn't Easy: The Theater of Stephen Sondheim.
Recent directing includes an original piece about the effects of the
Iraq War on our troops, And the War Came staged in the Long Beach Armory;
the West Coast Premiere of the searing family drama, Festen, an evening
of all student-written slam poetry, Out Loud and an original evening of
Bukowski poetry set to music performed at RedCat. As chair of a
very large theatre program at CSULB, Gordon is very active as a teacher,
scholar and administrator. She was recently elected as a Board Member
for the University Resident Theatre Association and has served as a panelist
for the National Association of Theatres. Gordon directs and conducts
workshops in both the U.S. and Europe. Gordon did her undergraduate
work in South Africa and her Ph.D. at UCLA.
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