Joanie Schultz 
Theater Directing Resume 
joanie@joanieschultz.com ** (773) 403-0468

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New York - Off Broadway 

 

autophagy                  

Sean Graney

Directorfest @ Abington Theatre

Chicago - Select Theater

A Perfect Wedding (3/09)

Charles Mee

Circle Theatre (Chicago Premiere)

In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (1/09) Stephen Adly Gurgis Steep Theatre (Chicago Premiere)

Many Loves (10/08)

William Carlos Williams

Caffeine Theater @ Lincoln Square Arts Center

Faster°                         

Adam Rapp

The Side Project (Midwest Premiere)

The American Dream Songbook*

Bernstein, et al.

Next Theatre Company (Associate Director)

Stone Cold Dead Serious°

Adam Rapp

Circle Theatre (Chicago Premiere)

The Brides                   

Harry Kondoleon

Classic Studio @ Columbia College

Betty’s Summer Vacation°

Christopher Durang

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre @ Live Bait

Saint Joan      

Bernard Shaw

Barber Theatre @ Northwestern University

Miscreate*      

Jessica Carleton

Wallis Theatre @ Northwestern University

Alchemy of Desire…   

Caridad Svich

Wallis Theatre @ Northwestern University

Top Girls          

Caryl Churchill

Bergen Room @ Northwestern University

En Mortem*                

Sean Graney

Flush Puppy Productions @ Prop Thtr.

Finding the Sun

Edward Albee

Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble Training Program

Polaroid Stories    Naomi Iizuka  Flush Puppy Productions @ Prop Thtr. 

Acts of Mercy*

Michael John Garcés

Flush Puppy Productions @ Angel Island

Beauty and the Beast

Kevin Reese    

Bowen Park Theater Company

Slaughter City            

Naomi Wallace

New Studio @ Columbia College

Phèdre                        

Jean Racine

New Studio @ Columbia College

 

Chicago & Regional - Opera
The Impresario Mozart Roosevelt University Operafest (11/08)
Monseiur Choufleuri... Offenbach Roosevelt University Operafest (11/08)

Carmen                    

Georges Bizet

Bay View Music Festival, Petosky, MI

 

Chicago - Select One Act Plays

Treadmills*      

Itamar Moses  

Collaboraction Sketchbook @ Steppenwolf

good to you* 

Michael John Garcés

Collaboraction Sketchbook @ Steppenwolf

kapital            

Michael John Garcés

The Estrogen Fest @ Prop Thtr

Underoos…*               

Sarah Gubbins

20% Theatre Company @ Strawdog Theatre

Should’ve Never*       

Adam Rapp

Collaboraction Sketchbook @ Chopin Theater

June Bride*                 

Brett Neveu

The Estrogen Fest @ Storefront Theater

Tell Her That*                          

Michael John Garcés

Collaboraction Sketchbook @ Chopin

audiovideo     

Michael John Garcés

Flush Puppy Prod @ Abbie Hoffman Festival

 

Select Assistant Directing/Observership Experience

Lipsynch*                    

dir. Robert Lepage

Ex Machina, Quebec City

Trumpery*                     

dir. David Esbjornson

Atlantic Theatre Company, NYC

Romeo and Juliet                     

dir. Davis McCallum

Playmakers Rep, Chapel Hill, NC

Red Light Winter*°      

dir. Adam Rapp         

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

The Return of Ulysses   

dir. Diane Paulis

Chicago Opera Theatre

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle/Ewartung

dir. Ken Cazan

Chicago Opera Theatre

A Blameless Life*                     

dir. Anna Shapiro

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Winesburg, Ohio*                   

dir. Jessica Thebus

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

 

New Play Workshops/Staged Readings

Fair Use

 Sarah Gubbins

Remy Bumppo at Victory Gardens

Cleveland Raining

 Sung Rno

Silk Road Theatre Project

10 Minute Play Workshop

 Ross Travis/Micha Stanek

Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series

Under America

 Jacob Juntunen

Gallery 500 @ UIC

The Deadline Workshop

 Various

Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series

Free Will

 Ruth Martin

Prop Thtr New Play Fest @Cultural Center

Knife Party

 Kevin Johnson

Prop Thtr New Play Fest @Cultural Center

Theater Education and Awards

MFA in Theater Directing, Northwestern University.  Assistantship/Fellowship. 
Professors included: Anna Shapiro, Frank Galati, Mary Zimmerman, Jessica Thebus, Ed Sobel, and Amy Morton.

BA in Theater Directing from Columbia College Chicago. Recipient of the first David Talbot Cox Scholarship for outstanding directing majors.  

Drama League Directors Project Fellow, Fall 2007.

Lincoln Center Director's Lab 2008.

Related Experience & Affiliations

 Teaching: Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College Chicago:  Currently teaching Directing I and Collaborative Seminar.
 One quarter teaching Fundamentals of Directing at Northwestern University. Two summers teaching for Steppenwolf Theatre's Ensemble Training program.

 Member of AGMA, Associate Member of SSDC.

 Company Member/Interim Managing Director of The Building Stage.

 Co-Artistic Director of The Estrogen Fest, a bi-annual festival featuring female performers.  

 Former Artistic Director and co-founder of Flush Puppy Productions