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Calley Anderson, MFA 2020

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Area of StudyPlaywritingHeight PlaywritingEmail calleyands@gmail.comWebsites 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

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

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) 

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