The Drama League and Manhattan Theatre Club are pleased to announce their collaboration on an important new program for young theatre directors, the Assistant Directors Program. Through this program, Drama League directors will be given the opportunity to assist on productions on each of Manhattan Theatre Club's three stages. This program expands MTC's existing Directing Fellowship Programs (The Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship and The Kenneth Frankel Memorial Directing Fellowship) and fosters both institutions' commitment to nurturing emerging talent. The Drama League, founded in 1916, is dedicated to building strong, passionate audiences and artists for the American theatre. "This new partnership exemplifies The Drama League's mission to serve the American theatre, " says Drama League President Pat Follert. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with one of New York's finest theatres." The Directors Project was founded in 1984 by Julia Hansen. Under the artistic leadership of Roger Danforth for the past decade, the Directors Project has become the country's foremost career-development program for theatre directors. Its 208 alumni have had a profound effect upon the American Theatre. They can be found working on and off-Broadway, at theatres across the country, and in film and television. They are the artistic leaders of over 45 American theatres, and their work has won every major industry award. The Assistant Directors Program in partnership with MTC is an expansion of The Drama League's current program, which began in concert with The Roundabout Theatre in 1999.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Renowned MTC productions include Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Yellowman; Kimberly Akimbo; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Sylvia; Four Dogs and a Bone; Putting It Together; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain't Misbehavin'. In 2003, MTC reopened Broadway's landmark long neglected Biltmore Theatre after an extensive renovation and restoration project.The DL-MTC Assistant Directors Program launches in October with the theatre's first production on New York City Center Stage One. Michael Goldfried, a new MFA directing graduate of the Trinity Rep-Brown University consortium has been selected to inaugurate the program. He will assist director Blanka Ziska on Ariel Dorfman's new play The Other Side starring Rosemary Harris and John Cullum. Additional assistant directors will be announced later in the season for other productions.
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