Carey Perloff





TINY THEATRICALS:

A DIGITAL THEATER PLATFORM


An intimate look inside the rehearsal process

via a new online platform featuring acclaimed actors


The first five-part episode

"Rehearsing Greek tragedy

for the contemporary stage"

is available now


Click HERE for info






CAREY  PERLOFF DIRECTS

THE LEHMAN TRILOGY

June 13 - July 16, 2023

The Huntington Theatre

https://www.huntingtontheatre.org



From The New Yorker...


The October 6 review in The New Yorker of Tom Stoppard's play Leopoldstadt cites Carey Perloff's new book Pinter and Stoppard: A Director's View

"Stoppard’s frequent collaborator Carey Perloff recently published “Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View,” and she spends a chapter discussing his not quite forgotten, always sort of known Jewishness, the way it emerged in past work as stories about doubles and twins, or heritage that is torn down and lost. Her book helped me think about where Stoppard’s experience surfaces in Hermann, a man who both knows and does not know his true situation, a man who thinks he has won the coin toss while the coin is still in the air."




Excerpt from the John Stokes' TLS Review:

"Directing, as Perloff conceives of it, “is an iterative process in which a script slowly reveals itself on stage through rigorous examination and the freedom to play and fail until solutions are reached which feel true to the spirit of the text”. The question is therefore: “How does a director uncover the laws governing the unique and mysterious world of a given play?” These “laws” or “rules of play” are the operating principles within a work that will allow it to generate a theatrical event; they are discovered in rehearsal and realized in performance. They are not universal and they shift with the shifting times, sometimes fundamentally. Stoppard, for instance, has said of Pinter that “he changed the ground rules” so you could no longer necessarily believe what a character might say, even on the most mundane level...."

Read full review HERE

ABOUT TINY THEATRICALS: A series of exciting digital episodes reveals how actors and directors collaborate, focusing on the wide range of psychological and physical choices actors make moment-to-moment during rehearsal, and how those choices inform a wider understanding of theater and its many components.




CURRENT & UPCOMING WORK



DIRECTING/ ARTISTIC ADVISING



AS YOU LIKE IT

Santa Cruz Shakespeare

July - August 2024

https://santacruzshakespeare.org/season-2024



TINY THEATRICALS

“Rehearsing Greek Tragedy

for the Contemporary Stage”

In collaboration with 

John Douglas Thompson and Nike Imoru

A Five-Part Digital Series

Debuted on Digital Theatre Plus March 2023

http://www.careyperloff.com/tiny-theatricals.html


JEKYLL & HYDE

Finland Ballet

Artistic Consultant and Dramaturg

April 2023

https://oopperabaletti.fi/en/

Kansas City Ballet

October 13-22, 2023

https://kcballet.org

Colorado Ballet

February 2-11, 2024

https://coloradoballet.org


THE LEHMAN TRILOGY

First US Production

Written by Stefano Massini

Adapted into English by Ben Power

Huntington Theatre

Boston

June 13 - July 16, 2023

LINK TO ARTICLE


THE LEHMAN TRILOGY

Repertory Theater of St. Louis

September 5 - 24, 2023

Mainstage: Loretto-Hilton Center

https://www.repstl.org/events/detail/lehman-trilogy



REHEARSED READING OF ION BY EURIPIDES

Ancient Arts Council

December 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Gunn Theater, Lincoln Park

San Francisco

https://www.ancientartcouncil.org


WRITING



VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA

Finalist, 2023 Jewish Plays Project

LINK FOR INFO

Resident Artist

The Ground Floor, Berkeley Rep

August 2023

www.berkeleyrep.org/the-ground-floor


EDGARDO OR WHITE FIRE

Commissioned by Williamstown Theatre Festival

Finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference 2022

Workshop at

the Kiln

People’s Light Theater Company

Philadelphia

April 14-15, 2023

Directed by Yury Urnov

https://www.peopleslight.org/whats-on/the-kiln/


PINTER AND STOPPARD: A DIRECTOR'S VIEW

Bloomsbury Methuen Press

LINK HERE TO ORDER



DIRECTOR COMMISSIONS



Developing a new concept for

THE OEDIPUS PLAYS

in collaboration with

John Douglas Thompson

Seattle Repertory Theater, 2021-2024

www.seattlerep.org


IN DEVELOPMENT



HOME?

A New One-Woman Play

by Hend Ayoub

Workshop Production with

Voices Festival Productions,

Washington D.C.

November 3-13, 2022

LINK HERE


THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

by Alex Poch-Goldin

Workshop at

Bard on the Beach

Vancouver, BC

September 21-25, 2022

LINK HERE


TEACHING


COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE DIRECTING PROGRAM

"Staging Beckett and Pinter"

January 22 - March 1, 2024




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Nike Imoru, Jason Butler Harner Mike Ryan, and Carey Perloff with cinematographer Adam Elder

“I like to say that it was Harold Pinter who first got me into the theater

and Tom Stoppard who kept me there...”


Carey Perloff

Carey Perloff Presents

Annie Meisels, Marcia Jean Kurtz, and Ella Dershowitz. Photo: Basil Rodericks

THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Steven Skybell, Firdous Bamji

THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Steven Skybell, Joshua David Robinson

Review of The Lehman Trilogy

in Stage and Cinema


AMAZING THEATER? BANK ON IT


"...Steven Skybell (Henry Lehman), Joshua David Robinson (Emanuel Lehman), and Firdous Bamji (Mayer Lehman) absolutely stunned in the the first American-made production of The Lehman Trilogy, which opened at The Huntington last week. They slipped in and out of multiple roles, including babies, toddlers, men of diverse ethnic and regional backgrounds, and numerous women, with nary a change of costume or makeup but purely through accents, rhythm of speech, and gestures. This is what we call “acting,” and under Carey Perloff’s stunning direction, Stefano Massini’s phenomenal play (English adaptation by Ben Power) brought us beautifully executed examples of that art...."


Read full review HERE

CAREY  PERLOFF DIRECTS

THE LEHMAN TRILOGY

September 5 - 24, 2023

The Repertory Theater of St. Louis


https://www.repstl.org


Upcoming Program

ANCIENT ARTS COUNCIL


December 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Rehearsed Reading of ION

by Euripides

Gunn Theater | Legion of Honor + Live Stream











Presented and Directed by Carey Perloff


This staged reading is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program.

IN PERSON: Gunn Theater, 100 - 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned. Doors open at 1:30 pm.

LIVE STREAM: Please register to receive a webinar link.

REGISTER