Hecht, Josh

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Josh Hecht

Josh Hecht
Director

Profile:

Off Broadway: Bradford Louryk’s CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS (Dodger Stages, Theatre Row -- Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, GLAAD Media Nomination for Outstanding New York Theater); Anna Ziegler’s BFF (WET at the DR2); Bob Morris’s ASSISTED LOVING (MCC Theater); Megan Mostyn-Brown’s GIRL (Cherry Lane); Winter Miller’s THE PENETRATION PLAY (13P), Ann Marie Healy’s THE NIGHT THAT ROGER… (Ontological), Matt Prager’s SHE CAN’T BELIEVE SHE SAID THAT (NYMF), Ross Maxwell’s OPEN HOUSE (Partial Comfort) and others.

Regional: Allison Moore’s SLASHER (Humana Festival); Rachel Schroeder’s HELIANTHA (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Megan Mostyn-Brown’s LIZARDS… (Guthrie Theater); CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS (Boston Center for the Arts – IRNE nomination for Outstanding Visiting Production). CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS also played internationally at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the 2006 Dublin Arts Festival.

Recent workshops include plays by Allison Moore (Playwrights Horizons and the Playwrights Center’s PlayLabs), Kate Moira Ryan (NYTW), Anna Ziegler (Geva), Megan Mostyn-Brown (LAByrinth), John Guare (MCC), Itamar Moses (MCC), Rachel Schroeder (DTW and Dixon Place), Victor Lodato (the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Winter Miller and Lance Horne (TheatreWorks), Brooke Berman (New Dramatists), Taylor Mac (New Dramatists), Ross Maxwell (EST) and many others.

He co-wrote and performs in INSIDE/OUT with Ping Chong and Company, which premiered at the Kennedy Center and played the 400-seat Times Center Stage in NYC.

For two years he served as Creative Director of MCC’s winter benefit and 20th Anniversary Celebration, initiating and developing new short plays by Jon Robin Baitz, Eric Bogosian, Richard Greenberg, John Guare, Peter Hedges, Neil LaBute, Terrence McNally, Tim Blake Nelson, Wendy Wasserstein, and Doug Wright and creating the look and sound of the evenings at Broadway’s Circle in the Square.

Formerly the Director of Playwright Development at MCC Theater. He was a member of the 2004-2005 SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab and the 2002 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. He is a co-founder of the Play Development Collective.