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Lester Thomas Shane

428 East 77th Street #3D t New York, NY 10021 t E-Mail: Lester@LesterThomasShane.com t Tel: 212.249.7076 t Cell:  917.447.4802

 

 

NY DIRECTING CREDITS

 

 

 

 

 

   Off Broadway

 

Shaviana

M. Martin

Samuel Beckett Theatre

 

   Off-Off Broadway

 

 

 

 

 

The Basic Theatre (Director in Residence):

 

 

 

 

 

The Haircut (Premiere)

P. Galino

 

 

 

Titus Andronicus

W. Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

Santa Monica Threeway (NY Premiere)

T. Jacobson

 

 

 

 

Bertolt Brecht: In Dark Times (NY Premiere)

D. Langworthy

 

 

 

 

Shaviana (Premiere)

M. Martin

 

 

 

 

Let Us Go Into The Starry Night

J.P. Shanley

 

 

 

 

Sure Thing

D. Ives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vineyard:

 

 

 

 

 

Grit in a Sensitive Instrument (NY Premiere)

P. Singleton

 

 

 

 

Pretty Witty Nell (NY Premiere)

C. Malugen

 

 

 

 

Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club:

 

 

 

 

 

Hedda Gabler

H. Ibsen

 

 

 

 

Summer and Smoke

T. Williams

 

 

 

 

T. Schreiber Studio:

 

 

 

 

 

Last Chance For Happiness (Premiere)

J. Greenhouse

 

 

 

 

Loot

J. Orton

 

 

 

 

Stagewrights:

 

 

 

 

 

Snake Eyes (Premiere)

A. Masters

 

 

 

 

Gutterballs (Premiere)

U. Taubert

 

 

 

 

42nd St. Collective

 

 

 

 

 

Artifice (Premiere)

B. Beatty

 

 

 

 

Real Live Dancing Boy (Premiere)

K. Grubb

 

 

 

 

Westside Rep, NYC:

 

 

 

 

 

In Memory (Premiere)

J. Dirigl

 

 

 

 

A Place To Come Home To

J. Dirigl

 

 

 

 

Additional NY Credits:

 

 

 

    Brighton Beach Memoirs N. Simon American Academy of Dramatic Arts

 

 

Scenes From American Life

A.R. Gurney

The New Actors Workshop

 

 

A Little Bit More (Cabaret w/Jenny Lynn Stewart)

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Various Venues

 

 

Mister Lincoln

H. Mitgang

The Acting Company

 

 

The White Whore and the Bit Player

T. Eyen

Core Group; Theatre Row Theatre

 

 

Pearl

J. Poglinco

Pulse Ensemble Theatre,

 

 

Soap Opera

R. Pape

Houseman Theatre

 

 

Gift of the Magi (Musical/Tour)

Cosentino/
Mondzak

Interborough Repertory Theater

 

 

Free Pass to Soria Moria (U.S. Premiere)

B. Vik

City University of NY

 

 

Nathaniel (Premiere)

M. Sawyer

Theatre 11

 

 

The White Whore and the Bit Player

T. Eyen

The Production Company

 

 

As You Like It (A New Musical)

Winters/Watkins/Shane 

Brothers & Sisters Cabaret,

 

REGIONAL DIRECTING CREDITS

 

 

 

 

 

Artistic Director

 

 

Shakespeare in San Marco/The Met

 

Theatre Jacksonville

Jacksonville, FL

 

Macbeth

 

W.Shakespeare

 

 

 

Twelfth Night

 

 

W.Shakespeare

 

 

 

Hamlet

 

 

W.Shakespeare

 

 

 

The Tempest

 

 

W.Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleveland Public Theatre:

 

 

 

 

 

Bright Room Called Day

T. Kushner

 

 

 

 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Mitchell/Trask

 

 

 

 

Sweet Phoebe

M. Gow

 

 

 

 

Science Gets Serious (Premiere)

F. Green

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Findlay SummerStock

 

 

 

 

 

Blithe Spirit

N. Coward

 

 

 

 

Bus Stop

W. Inge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Regional Credits:

 

 

 

 

 

Awake and Sing

C. Odets

Halle Theatre
Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

 

Shatter The Vessel (Premiere)

L. McDermott

New Play Festival
Charlottesville,VA

 

 

 

A Season in Rep (Premiere)

L. Shane

West Coast Ensemble, LA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Readings and Workshops

 

The Basic Theatre; Stagewrights; 
42nd St. Collective,
Cleveland Public Theatre;  NYU; ADAPT; The New Group, IRT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industrials

 

Hoffman-Hedges Prod

 

ACTING CREDITS

(selected, full list available including film , television and radio)

 

 

 

Mortal Coil (all roles)

 

NY Int'l Fringe Festival/
Cleveland Public Theatre/
Stella Adler Theatre, LA/Video

 

 

 

 

 

Polymorphous Perverse (George)

 

42nd St. Collective Summerfest

 

 

 

 

 

The Tempest (Ariel)

 

People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA

 

 

 

 

 

Counting the Ways (He)

 

PAI Rep

 

 

 

 

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck)

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)

 

Alabama Shakespeare Festival

 

Taming of the Shrew (Tranio)

 

Three Seasons in Repertory

 

School for Wives (Alain)

 

 

 

Tartuffe (Tartuffe)

 

 

 

As You Like It (Jacques)

 

Also served as company

 

Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry)

 

Voice and Movement Master

 

Macbeth (Angus)

 

 

 

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed)

 

 

 

Hamlet (Guildenstern; Osric)

 

 

 

The Comedy of Errors (Dromio)

 

 

 

WRITING CREDITS

 

 

 

Mortal Coil (play)

 

Produced:  Cleveland Public Theatre
Produced: NY Int'l Fringe Festival
Reading:  Basic Theatre
Marathon, NYC
Winner of
Cleveland Drama Critics Award
Produced:  Stella Adler Theatre,
Los Angeles
Produced:  Video - Pan:Image, Inc.

Selected Institutional Venues

 

 

 

 

 

Nazis & The Occult: Myths, Mystics and Madmen

 

Cinnabar Pictures/Discovery Channel

 

 

 

 

 

20th Century Fox:  The First Fifty Years

 

Van Ness Films / AMC TV

 

 

 

 

 

Carmen Miranda: The South American Way

 

 

 

Tyrone Power: The Last Idol

 

A&E TV Biography Series

 

James Brown: Godfather of Soul

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Rupert: Just Being Me (Book w/Rupert Boneham)   LifePress
       

 

Seven Keys To Success Without Struggle
              
(book w/Penelope Brackett)

 

Creative Seed Publishing

 

 

 

 

 

POV: Max   (A Sitcom Treatment; w/ Merrick Bursuk)

 

Children's Television Workshop

 

 

 

 

 

Indieplanet (Website)- Theatre Channel

 

 

 

Grolier Encyclopedia

 

Contributing Writer

 

My Weekly Reader

 

 

 

Facilities Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mystery Page

 

Column in A&E Monthly Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

To Be Quentin

 

 

 

Miracles:  A Fable

 

Children's' Plays

 

The New Baby

 

Published by

 

Victory At Calvin Coolidge

 

Sundance Publishing

 

Life In The Laugh Track

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bride's Guide (60' Instructional Video)

 

E.N.D. Productions

 

 

 

 

 

A Season in Rep (Play)

 

Workshop Production
West Coast Ensemble, LA

 

 

 

 

 

Pajama Party Horror (Screenplay; w/ Lynn Lowry)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aeon Dubai

 

Industrial Narration
R.U.R Architectural Firm

 

TEACHING CREDITS

 

 

 

Speech and Dialects

 

New Actors Workshop (current)

 

 

Two year professional conservatory program

 

 

 

 

Skinner Technique;  IPA; 
Working with verse and elevated text; 
Dialects;  Advisor to Masters Candidates

 

 

 

 

 

Speech and Voice

 

American Academy of Dramatic Art (current)

 

 

Three year professional training conservatory program

 

 

 

Skinner technique, IPA; Director

 

 

       
  Speech   New York Film Academy (current)

One year professional training program
Skinner technique, IPA

 

 

       
       

 

Speech/Voice/Poetry/Shakespeare

 

Tada Theatrical Ensemble School (current)

 

 

Pre-professional training program - students ages 10-17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest Teacher

 

 

 

 

Directing Shakespeare

 

Florida Community College Jacksonville

 

 

Speech and Dialects

 

T. Schreiber Studio

 

 

Shakespeare Workshop

 

N. Canyon HS, Phoenix, AZ

 

 

 

 

 

KeyIn To Speech Workshop

 

The Creative Seed Network

 

 

Excellent Service Series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote Speaker

 

PBS National Teacher Training Institute

 

 

Directing as a model for the classroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Theatrical Choice

 

ADAPT, NYC

 

 

A workshop on what makes something "theatrical"

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dybbuk

 

Society for the Advancement of Judaism

 

 

A three week class on the play,
its role in Jewish Theatre, and the religious, mythic and superstitious elements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Faces of Shlyock

 

West End Synagogue, NYC

 

 

A lecture on Shakespeare’s villain and the hero of Wesker’s The Merchant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

 

 

 

Dramaturg

 

My In Father’s Eyes (Anastassi/Friedman).
Lessons (
W. Graf),
Farenheit 451 (Jax Reads)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artistic Director

 

Shakespeare in San Marco/The Met (Jacksonville, FL)

 

 

 

 

 

Director in Residence

 

The Basic Theatre, NYC

 

 

 

 

 

Executive Director

 

 

The Conspiracy Theatre, NYC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speech Coach

 

 

Merchant of Venice (w/ M. Carnovsky)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dialect Coach

 

 

 

 

 

Escape From Happiness

 

T. Schreiber Studio, NYC

 

 

Orpheus Descending

 

T. Schreiber Studio, NYC

 

 

New Music

 

Mint Theatre Co., NYC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voice & Movement Master

 

3 Seasons Alabama Shakespeare Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

Script Reader

 

The Hartford Stage;
Manhattan Theatre Club, Westbeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freelance Copy and Technical Writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Private Coaching--Acting & Dialects

 

Client list by request

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field Coordinator

 

NBC News Elections

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteer

 

 

Jacob Perlow Hospice

 

AWARDS

 

 

 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

 

Dan Folino (Hedwig) Winner:-

Outstanding Performance by an Actor - Scene Magazine; Best of 2002

 

 

 

 

 

Hamlet

 

Matt Hemphill (Hamlet) Best Actor,
Theatre
Jacksonville

 

 

 

 

 

Twelfth Night

 

Mandy Proctor (Viola) Best Actress,
Theatre
Jacksonville

 

 

 

 

 

Mortal Coil

 

 

Winner:  Cleveland Drama Critics Award

                                                                                                                       

MEMBERSHIPS

 

 

 

UNIONS:  AEA;  SAG;  AFTRA

 

 

 

VASTA

 

 

 

Mystery Writers of America

 

 

 

The Bernard Shaw Society

 

 

 

TRAINING

 

 

 

BFA Program; Carnegie‑Mellon University

 

 

 

 

Directing:  Lawrence Carra; Speech & Dialects:  Edith Skinner

 

 

Columbia University: Director's Forum:

 

 

 

 

Jerry Zaks, Judith Malina, Andrei Serban, Simonne Benmussa

 

 

Shakespeare Workshops:

 

 

 

 

John Barton; Louis Scheeder; Deborah Hecht;
Kate Wilson, Shane Ann Younts, Patsy Rodenberg