CURRENT & UPCOMING WORK
DIRECTING
LEOPOLDSTADT
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
West Coast Premiere
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Roda Theatre
June-July 2027
BETRAYAL
by Harold Pinter
Marin Theatre Company
Boyer Theatre
October 22-November 15, 2026
https://www.marintheatre.org/show-details/betrayal
A WORLD PREMIERE
OEDIPUS: KING/COLONUS
Adapted by Carey Perloff
Original music by David Coulter
PlayMakers Repertory Company
Chapel Hill, NC
September 9-27, 2026
https://playmakersrep.org/show/oedipus-king-colonus/
LEOPOLDSTADT
by Tom Stoppard
Writers Theatre, Chicago,
June 4-August 16, 2026
https://www.writerstheatre.org/events/leopoldstadt
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
by Anton Chekhov
Marin Theater Company
Jan 29- Feb 22, 2026
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
WRITING
VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA
First Production
Six Points Theatre, Minneapolis
March 2026
www.sixpointstheater.org/vienna-vienna-vienna
IF GOD WERE BLUE
The Colorado New Play Summit
Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
March 1 & 2, 2025
https://www.denvercenter.org/
tickets-events/colorado-new-play-summit/#tab-id-3
EDGARDO OR WHITE FIRE
Commissioned by Williamstown Theatre Festival
Finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference 2022
Workshop at Writers Theater Chicago
March 2024
Directed by Shana Cooper
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
DIRECTOR COMMISSIONS
OEDIPUS
Revealation Reading
Red Bull Theater Workshop
New York, NY
April 27 & 28, 2025
https://www.redbulltheater.com/oedipus
RESIDENCY
BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION
Adaptation & Book-Length Study of Oedipus
TYRANNOS/COLONUS
for the contemporary stage
November 18 - December 18
Bogliasco, Italy
https://www.bfny.org/en/news-and-events
TEACHING
GUEST PROFESSOR
Columbia University
MFA Directing Program
Ongoing
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Bruce Thayer and read Carey Perloff rehearsing VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA at CNPF June 2025
“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
Talkin' Broadway Review:
"Vienna, Vienna, Vienna arrives as a high caliber play of unquestionably worthy merit. It has been launched in this wonderful production under Robert Dorfman's dexterous direction, with a trio of actors who each give star performances: Laura Esping, Nancy Marvy, and Miriam Schwartz...Perloff has crafted a genuinely funny play, one that is also gently moving in revealing the wounds and unmet needs each of these women bear, and revealing in its depiction of how a city can at once be a font of culture, intellectualism, and sophistication and also a cauldron of bigotry, hate, and barbarism. As for Perloff's humor, it comes deftly by way of authentic emotions and conversations woven into the narrative, not as one liners dropped into the script, begging for a rim-shot. Not a thread of the dialogue or the events depicted feels like an artificial construction."
Broadway World Chicago...
SEPTEMBER 9-27, 2026
CHAPEL HILL, NC
869