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LEAR DE BESSONET, founder and Artistic Director of Stillpoint Productions, has assisted Martha Clarke, Anne Bogart, and Marianne Weems, and was featured in Time Out New York's "25 People to Watch 2006." New York devising/directing credits include Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards (PS122), transFigures (produced Off-Broadway by Womens Project 2007, site-specific at Calvary Church 2003), Bone Portraits (Walkerspace), Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (a site-specific work performed at an abandoned bank next to the NY Stock Exchange), Flying on the Wing (NY Fringe, Outstanding Solo Show), The Eliots (Center Stage), The Female Terrorist Project (HERE Arts Center), L'Histoire du Canard (NYU Graduate Acting Freeplay), Bite Your Tongue (NYU Graduate Acting Freeplay), Equus (Hangar Theatre), Whiskey Girl (Hangar Theatre), and A Short Time After (by Caridad Svich, Six Nights). Internationally, Lear directed a new tri-lingual musical for the National Opera Theatre of Kazakhstan (In the Dark Ages), and a workshop of Revisions in Dublin. She has trained with DAH Theater of Yugoslavia and the SITI Company and was co-director of the Collaborative Theatre Intensive with The International WOW Company. She is a member of the Women's Project Directors Lab and an alumnus of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a Jefferson Scholar. UPCOMING: a new piece at PS122 in Fall 2008 and Talk is Cheap but Money Buys the Whiskey, a new collaboration with Deborah Stein, a site-specific touring piece premiering Summer 2008.
Bio as of October, 2007.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Theatre Intern Group Panelist - 2007
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