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STEPHEN DiMENNA
 

DIRECTOR
SDC

Represented by

Ron Gwiazda

Abrams Artists Agency

212-486-4600

ron.gwiazda@abramsartny.com

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NEW YORK

 
THE DARYL ROTH THEATRE Producers, Daryl Roth and Angelo Fraboni
  VIGIL Morris Panych
  with Malcolm Gets and Helen Stenborg  


MCC THEATER
 

Resident Artist and Artistic Director, Youth Theater Company

  UNCENSORED

Company Developed

  THE STAND Company Developed
DELIRIOUS Company Developed
  FALLING UP James Bosley
  BENEATH MY FEET James Bosley
  TEN DAYS Alex Moore
  FORBIDDEN LOVE Loraine Mendez
     
RATTLESTICK  PLAYWRIGHT'S THEATRE
 

THE MESSENGER

with Troy Garity and Amy Redford

David VanAsselt
 

TIMEKEEPERS

with Alan Cumming & Ron Rifkin

Tim Clancey
     
THE MINT THEATRE COMPANY
  THE GRABELSKI CONCERTOS Tommy Swerdlow
     
ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE
  PROMETHEUS BOUND
Trans. by Steven Sater
     
THE HAROLD CLURMAN THEATRE
  WHEN WE WERE SINGING Dorothy Ditrich
     
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE/PSRC PROJECT
  IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY James Bosley
  KNOW’M SAYIN James Bosley/Ed Napier
     
HB PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION
  GONE MISSING Ed Napier
     
NYU/TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Graduate Program in Musical Theatre
  INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE Eleanore Earl
     
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS INC.
  SEPTEMBER Connor Coyne
  THE SAINTLY SINNER John Marks
     
THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
  A SILVER THRONE Tony Howarth
     
     
REGIONAL

 

WESTPORT PLAYHOUSE, Westport, CT

                 VIGIL                                             Morris Panych
                          With Timothy Busfield and Helen Stenborg
 
THE GUTHRIE THEATER, Minneapolis
  TINY ISLAND Michael Hollinger
  BLACKBIRD David Harrower  
 
PILLSBURY HOUSE THEATRE, Minneapolis
Company Member 2003- present
    JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN Stephen Adly Guirgis
  BEL CANTO Daniel Alexander Jones
  BUG Tracy Letts
  BLACKBIRD David Harrower  
  VIGIL Morris Panych
     
EYE OF THE STORM THEATRE, Minneapolis
  THE SHAPE OF THINGS Neil LaBute
     
THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY, Minneapolis
  ROMEO AND JULIET Shakespeare
     
INITIALSTAGE THEATRE COLLECTIVE, Minneapolis
  JERSEY CITY Wendy Hammond
  CREEPS David Freeman
  ONE OF THEM MALE THINGS Scott Thun
     
THE CRICKET THEATRE, Minneapolis
  AN EMPTY PLATE IN THE CAFE
DU GRAND BOEUF

Michael Hollinger
     
THE HISTORY THEATRE,St. Paul
  THE KENTUCKY CYCLE Robert Schenkkan
  HAUPTMANN John Logan
  THE GREAT GATSBY John Carlisle
  SCOTT AND ZELDA Lance Belville
  SMALL TOWN TRIUMPHS Bart Sutter
  COWBOY COLORS Paul Zarzyski
  THROUGH THE WHEAT Tom Olson
     
THEATRE-IN-THE-ROUND, Minneapolis
  TEN NOVEMBER Steven Dietz
  A PERFECT GANESH Terrence McNally
  GEMINI Albert Innurato
  WOMAN IN MIND Alan Ayckbourn
     
BAY VIEW THEATRE FESTIVAL, Bay View, MI
  THE FOREIGNER Larry Shue
  HAY FEVER Noel Coward
     
THE PLAYWRIGHT'S CENTER, Minneapolis
  TINY ISLAND Michael Hollinger
  I CAN DO IT Laura Sue Epstein
     
THE MINNESOTA OPERA
  THE MUSIC MAN Merideth Wilson
     
THE LYRIC THEATRE, Minneapolis
  TROY John Zygmunt
     
MN. MUSIC THEATRE WORKSHOP
  WINTER IN PARADISE Steve Hannan
     
THE PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION
  PANTAGLEIZE Michel deGhelderode
  ANTIGONE Jean Anouilh
  THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT Eugene LaBiche
  ON THE RAZZLE Tom Stoppard
     
MINNESOTA SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
  THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Shakespeare
     
OUT-AND-ABOUT THEATRE, Minneapolis
  KENNEDY'S CHILDREN Robert Patrick
     
     
     
     
     
CURRENT POSITIONS
 
   
     
THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND LITERACY PROJECT

                          Founder and Artistic Director  2005- present

                          Produce and direct workshops and origibnal plays

                          in developing countries.    itlp.org

                          

 
INITIALSTAGE, New York
                     Artistic Director  2000- present     

                     Provide artistic direction and development of new plays

                     and musicals for the commercial theatre

 
PILLSBURY HOUSE THEATRE, Minneapolis

                          Company Member 2003 - present

                          pillsburyhousetheatre.org

 

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Steinhardt School of Culture and Human Development

Program in Educational Theatre

                          Faculty Member  2004- present

     
     
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
 

MCC THEATER, New York

                          Artistic Director of the MCC Youth Theater Company

                          1999- 2010

                          Artist in Residence, 1997-2010

 

INITIAL STAGE THEATRE COLLECTIVE, Minneapolis MN

  Founder and Artistic Director 1990 -1995
  Directed and produced productions of new American plays.
     
THE HISTORY THEATRE, St. Paul MN
  Associate Artistic Director 1991-1994
       • Directed seven mainstage productions.
         Assisted with season selection.
      • Developed new plays for the mainstage
      • Designed and implemented educational and outreach
        programs.
     
THE FULLER YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE, Minneapolis MN
  Founder and Artistic Director
 

     • Directed the operation of a professional theatre

         for young people.

            


THALIA THEATRE, Hamburg Germany
  Assistant Director for Robert Wilson on TIME ROCKER, 1996
     
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S CENTER, Minneapolis MN
  Director / Co-founder of the Young Playwright’s Program 1984-1990
  McKnight Excellence in the Arts Selection Panel 1997
     
THE GUTHRIE THEATRE, Minneapolis, MN
  Guest Director 1997 / 2008
     
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