BOSTON PUBLIC RADIO PODCAST PRESENTS
"Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt is on stage now at the Huntington. A Boston Public Radio interview with Director Carey Perloff and actor Rebecca Gibel about the play, about a Jewish family in Vienna at the rise of the 20th century."
“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
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...."
CURRENT & UPCOMING WORK
DIRECTING/ ARTISTIC ADVISING
LEOPOLDSTADT by Tom Stoppard
Writers Theater, Chicago, June 4-July 19, 2026
https://www.writerstheatre.org/events/leopoldstadt
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
by Anton Chekhov
Marin Theater Company
Jan 29- Feb 22, 2026
https://purchase.marintheatre.org/EventAvailability?
HOME?
by Hend Ayoub
https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/home-hend-ayoub/
September 12 to October 11, 2025:
https://www.59e59.org/shows/show-detail/home
-a-palestinian-womans-pursuit-of-life-liberty-happiness/
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
http://www.careyperloff.com/tiny-theatricals.html
JEKYLL & HYDE
Finland Ballet
Artistic Consultant and Dramaturg
Ballet West
October 25 - November 2, 2024
WRITING
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
VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA
The Studios of Key West
March 28 & 29, 2025
https://tskw.org/vienna-vienna-vienna/
VIENNA, VIENNA, VIENNA
The Colorado New Play Festival
Begins June 8, 2025
https://cnpfsteamboat.org/
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
OEDIPUS
Revealation Reading
Red Bull Theater Workshop
New York, NY
April 27 & 28, 2025
https://www.redbulltheater.com/oedipus
Developing a new concept for
THE OEDIPUS PLAYS
in collaboration with
John Douglas Thompson
Seattle Repertory Theater, 2021-2025
RESIDENCY
BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION
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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Mike Ryan, Joseph O'Malley, Lance Gardner, Daniel Cantor, and Anthony Fusco in Waste at Marin Theatre. Adapted and directed by Carey Perloff. Photo by Chris Hardy
From San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/lance-gardner-waste-artistic-director-20054049
Waste, written by Harley Granville-Barker in 1906. Adapted and Directed by Carey Perloff. Marin Theatre. Photo by Chris Hardy
–– Jewish Rhode Island
–– WBUR
Leopoldstadt, The Huntington Theatre, Photo by Liza Voll
Leopoldstadt, Holden King-Farbstein, Joshua Chessin-Yudin, Quinn Murphy
Firdous Bamji; Photo by Liza Voll
"A practically flawless production from start to finish, the show is as layered and complex as the themes at its core. Playing out the pointed arguments of identity and assimilation through much of the show were Ludwig, played by Firdous Bamji, and Hermann, played by Nael Nacer. Both placing their faith in the power of systems — Hermann in high society and social graces and Ludwig in mathematics and rationality — these two actors were absolute standouts, even as (or especially as) hope is lost. Nacer’s Hermann slowly degrades with the weight of the world increasingly resting on his shoulders, while Bamji’s Ludwig retreats further into his mind as reality slips from him."
Leopoldstadt; Mishka Yarovoy, Nael Nacer, Brenda Meaney; Photo by Liza Voll
Leopoldstadt, Brenda Meany, Samuel Adams, The Huntington Theatre, Photo by Liza Voll
Lance Gardner in Waste, Marin Theatre. Adapted and directed by Carey Perloff. Photo by Chris Hardy
