Theater Folks!
TAIBI MAGAR will be our first Zoom-Guest appearance next Wednesday (October 14), during Free Period, from 12:30-1:30pm.
Taibi Magar is an Egyptian-American director based in New York & Providence, and a graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA program. In New York she has directed We Live in Cairo (A.R.T.), Blue Ridge starring Marin Ireland and The Great Leap starring BD Wong (Atlantic Theatre Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep); Master (The Foundry); Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova).
Other regional theatres she has directed at include: A.R.T., Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Alley Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Trinity Repertory Company, among others. (She also has International credits: Hamburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), and Soho Theatre (London).
She is the recipient of a Stephen Sondheim Fellowship, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Fellowship, Public Theater Shakespeare Fellowship, and TFANA Actors and Director Project Fellowship. Taibi is an alumni of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a NYTW Usual Suspect.
Her work is acclaimed!!
She won the 2018 Obie Award for directing Is God Is.
Her production of Underground Railroad Game won the 2016 Obie for Best Production.
And two of her productions were listed as Critics’ Picks in the New York Times: Master and Underground Railroad Game.
We are so lucky that she is going to talk with us!
https://ri-college.zoom.us/j/89000120463?pwd=eml1UmtRYm5ObGhEekJpelhhS1psdz09
Meeting ID: 890 0012 0463
Passcode: 3q0VaPUR
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