Rebecca Taichman directed and co-created the Barrymore Award-winning musical Green Violin by Elise Thoron with music by Frank London at The Prince Music Theater in 2005, which subsequently won four Barrymore Awards, including the Barrymore Award, “Harold Prince Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical”. Rebecca also directed and co-created the Obie award-winning Menopausal Gentleman. Rebecca directed Iphigeneia at Aulis at Yale Repertory Theater, Arthur Kopit’s Discovery of America at NY Stage & Film, Anna Deveare Smith’s Piano at Ms. Smith’s Institute of the Arts and Civic Dialogue, Swimming in March by Kate Robin at The Market Theater, Oklahoma City by Tom Cole at the Theater Offensive, and Cascarones by Irma Mayorga at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Playwright’s Conference. Rebecca graduated from the YaleDramaSchool, where she wrote and directed People vs. God of Vengeance. Rebecca is a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop and a recipient of a Drama League Directing Fellowship. Rebecca studied at the National Theater Institute, where she now teaches Found Text: a course in turning found/historical texts into theater. She also teaches Found Text atUniversity ofMaryland, directing atYaleUniversity and has taught at MIT. Rebecca directed The Diary of Anne Frank at The Roundhouse Theater, recentlly nominated for 3 Helen Hayes Awards, and will direct Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water at Roundhouse next season. She is directing Clean House by Sarah Ruhl at Woolly Mammoth Theater this summer, and Velvet Sky at Woolly Mammoth next season. She will also be taking Green Violin toSt. Petersburg,Russia next Fall for a workshop production. Through a grant from TCG, Rebecca has joined Woolly Mammoth Theater as an Associate Artistic Director.
