“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
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
LEOPOLDSTADT
The Huntington Theater
Boston
Sept 12 - October 13, 2024
LEOPOLDSTADT
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Washington, DC
November 30 - December 29, 2024
WASTE
Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley, CA
February 6 - March 2, 2025
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
https://careyperloff.com/tiny-theatricals.html
JEKYLL & HYDE
Finland Ballet
Artistic Consultant and Dramaturg
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
WRITING
VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA
Finalist, 2023 Jewish Plays Project
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 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
Developing a new concept for
THE OEDIPUS PLAYS
in collaboration with
John Douglas Thompson
Seattle Repertory Theater, 2021-2024
IN DEVELOPMENT
HOME?
A New One-Woman Play
by Hend Ayoub
Workshop Production with
Voices Festival Productions,
Washington D.C.
November 3-13, 2022
THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by Alex Poch-Goldin
Workshop at
Bard on the Beach
Vancouver, BC
September 21-25, 2022
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
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Steven Skybell, Firdous Bamji
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...."
CAREY PERLOFF
directs
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
September 5 - 24, 2023
The Repertory Theater of St. Louis
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...."
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, Steven Skybell, Joshua David Robinson
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Nominated for
Outstanding Production, Large Theater
“The Lehman Trilogy”
The Huntington
Nominated for
Outstanding Direction, Large Theater
Carey Perloff, “The Lehman Trilogy”
The Huntington
MARIN THEATRE COMPANY TO LAUNCH
CENTURY-OLD MASTERPIECE
Marin Theatre Company will launch 2025 with a fresh take on a rarely seen century-old political play, Waste (February 6 – March 2, 2025). This compelling work was written in 1906 by Harley Granville-Barker, an English actor, director, playwright, and critic, who came to fame performing and then directing the early works of George Bernard Shaw, eventually authoring The Voysey Inheritance, considered a masterpiece of the Edwardian stage. That highly regarded hit was followed by Waste, which was banned due to its shocking topic of abortion and politics, finally staged for the first time in 1927. In Waste, an ambitious politician’s career is wrecked over his illicit affair with a woman, who has died after a botched abortion. Rather than showing sympathy or outrage for the female victim, the work cynically focuses on the politician and his colleagues, who scramble to salvage his reputation. In a recent U.K. revival, British Theatre lauded Waste for its “crackling dialogue” calling it “Extraordinary. By some distance the best production to grace a National Theatre stage since Rufus Norris took the reins.” Director, playwright, producer, author, and educator Carey Perloff, artistic director emerita of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, is set to direct, and Marin Theatre Artistic Director Lance Gardner will return to the stage as the politician under fire.
