• Calley Anderson, MFA 2020

  • Calley Anderson
    Area of Study Playwriting
    Email [email protected]
    Websites
    calleynanderson.com

    Resume


    Experience Name: Student Production (2019)
    Show: Everyone But Us
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Director: Diane Machin
    Role: Playwright

    Experience Name: Summer Staged Reading (2018)
    Show: The Julies: A Kinda Sorta Adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Director: Nigel Semaj Barnes
    Role: Playwright

    Experience Name: Festival Production (2018)
    Show: Trick or Treat? (10 Minute Play)
    Playhouse / Producer: Fade to Black Fest
    Company: Shabach Enterprises
    Director: Donna Stewart
    Role: Playwright

    Experience Name: Festival Production (2018)
    Show: Unfinished Business (10 Minute Play)
    Playhouse / Producer: WE READ BOOKS/Inversion Theatre
    Director: Will Steinberger
    Role: Playwright

    Experience Name: Festival Productions (2017, 2016)
    Show: Carousel (10 Minute Play)
    Playhouse / Producer: Pride Theatre Festival/Vermont Pride Theater at Chandler; Out of the Closet Festival/Emerald Theatre Company
    Director: Kim Ward; Den-Nickolas Smith
    Role: Playwright

    Experience Name: Staged Reading (2016)
    Show: Davis Miller (One Act Play)
    Playhouse / Producer: Self-Produced at the National Civil Rights Museum
    Director: Self
    Role: Playwright, Director, Producer

    Education

    The New School - School of Drama (2017-Present)

    MFA Candidate in Playwriting

    Instructors: Lucy Thurber, Stephen Karam, Michael Weller, Courtney Baron, William Cusick, Christopher Shinn, Mfoniso Udofia, Daniel Alexander Jones, Kimber Lee, Sarah Gancher, Mia Chung

     

    Davidson College (2010-2014)

    BA in English, Concentration in Film & Media Studies

    Advisor: Dr. Ann Fox 

    Skills

    Proficient in group facilitation

    Co-Coordinator, School of Drama Affinity Groups (Present)

    Facilitator for Artists of Color School of Drama Affinity Group (2018-2019)

    Experience with equity, diversity and inclusion work

    Co-Coordinator, School of Drama Affinity Groups (Present)

                Diversity & Inclusion Manager, Memphis Symphony Orchestra (2016-2017)

    Experience in Stage Management

    The Wiz at Hattiloo Theatre (2016)

    If Scrooge Was a Brother at Hattiloo Theatre (2014)

    Experience in Asst. Production Management

                King Hedley II at Hattiloo Theatre (2015)

                Purlie Victorious at Hattiloo Theatre (2015)

                Hoodoo Love at Hattiloo Theatre (2015) 

    Training

    Role: Assistant to Michael Weller, A Welcome Guest: A Demented Fairy Tale

    Director: Ed Herendeen

    Playhouse/Producer: Contemporary American Theatre Festival (2019)

    Type: Full Length, Festival Production

     

    Role: Playwright Intern, Heart of Soul 

    Director: Patricia McGregor

    Playhouse/Producer: Stuart Benjamin Productions/Baseline Theatrical (2016)

    Type: Full Length, Workshop Production

     

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