Download ResumeAlice Reagan is a freelance theater director based in New York City. She most frequently directs classics and new plays that experiment with form and content.
Directing credits include The Egg-Layers by Lauren Feldman in a co-presentation between New Georges and Barnard College; Prison Light by Austin Flint at HERE Arts Center; Stuck at Culture Project/Women Center Stage (with Birgit Huppuch); The Physicists by Dürrenmatt at Barnard College/Columbia University; Playing in Traffic at Women’s Project; Happy Thoughts by Alexander Wright at Bard College; The Verge by Susan Glaspell with Performance Lab 115 at the Ontological Theater; Caucasian Chalk Circle with PL115 at the Chocolate Factory; What of the Night? by Maria Irene Fornes for Barnard College/Columbia University; a workshop of the new musical Le Fou by Bekah Brunstetter at New Georges; Sprinkler by Katherine Ryan at DirectorFest, produced by the Drama League; The Knights, adapted from Aristophanes by Rob Handel for Target Margin Theater; Alice in War by Steven Bogart for the Summer Play Festival; Women of Trachis by Katherine Ryan at the Ohio Theatre in Soho, produced by Target Margin; A Small Hole by Julia Jarcho at The New York International Fringe Festival; Pickford with Beth Kurkjian in the Blueprint Series at the Ontological/Hysteric Theater; Dawn Powell’s 1932 satire Big Night at Bates College, and workshopped Ghost Stories by Heather Dundas at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She received a chashama A.R.E.A. Award to direct Euripides’ Alcestis on East 42nd Street.
She collaborated with Performance Lab 115 on a new translation/adaptation of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle through the Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist Program.
She has workshopped and directed readings of new plays at Soho Rep, Women’s Project, New Georges, Rattlestick, New Dramatists, Lark Play Development Center, and NYU/Public Theater.
Alice was a Dean’s Fellow in the M.F.A. theater directing program at Columbia University; while there she directed Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco, The Vise by Luigi Pirandello, and many new plays. She also holds an M.A. in performance studies from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts where she won the Amankulor Award.
She is a Resident Artist with Performance Lab 115, and was Artistic Associate at Target Margin. Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recipient of Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant. Princess Grace Award. Princess Grace Special Project Grant. Drama League Directing Fellow. Alumna Women’s Project Directors Lab. Denham Fellowship Finalist. Alice is Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Directing at Barnard College.
Current projects include: I Came to Look for You on Tuesday by Chiori Miyagawa; The Dowager by Andy Bragen. Alice won a 2011 Princess Grace Special Project Grant to visit the archives of playwright Jane Bowles in preparation for her production of In the Summer House.