Anne Kauffman

Anne Kauffman is an American director known primarily for her work on new plays, mainly in the New York area. She is a founding member of the theater group The Civilians.[1][2]

Anne Kauffman
EducationStanford University (BA)
 University of California, San Diego (MFA)

Early life and education

Kauffman received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her MFA from the graduate directing program at UCSD.

Kauffman has said: "I'm attracted to plays that need the theater and belong only to the theater,...I've always been very interested in writers who have a kind of mystery to them--something that makes me work a little hard and is compelling and mysterious...trying to get at the world from a slightly odd angle....I do love working with a playwright more than once."[3]

Career

Kauffman directed The Thugs by Adam Bock Off-Broadway at the Soho Rep in 2006.[4] She received the 2007 Obie Award for direction for this production.[5]

Kauffman directed Amy Herzog's Belleville Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2013. The reviewer for Time Magazine wrote : "She [Kauffman] serves the play wonderfully, with a light but firm hand, for a tense, almost breathtaking hour and a half."[6] She also directed Belleville at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, in 2013. The reviewer of the Chicago production noted "Kauffmann's tense, adroit, nuanced, deftly cast production..."[7] She directed Amy Herzog's Mary Jane Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in Sept. 2017. Jesse Green, in his review for The New York Times, noted "Ms. Kauffman’s ideally detailed direction."[8]

Past Off-Broadway productions include Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison (2011) and Pulitzer Prize finalist play Detroit by Lisa D'Amour (2012) at Playwrights Horizons;.[9] Stunning by David Adjmi (2009) and Slowgirl by Greg Pierce (2012) at LCT3 ;[10] You'd Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce (Written with The Civilians) at The Flea Theater (2012); This Wide Night by Chloe Moss by Naked Angels Theater Company (2010); Sixty Miles to Silver Lake by Dan Le Franc at Soho Rep (2009); Have You Seen Steve Steven by Ann Marie Healy with 13P (2007); God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz at The Vineyard and New Georges (2007); and The Ladies by Anne Washburn at the Cherry Lane Theater and Dixon Place (2004).[11]

In 2016, she directed Smokefall by Noah Haidle with Zachary Quinto at the Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC production; she had previously directed the play at the South Coast Repertory, and the Goodman Theatre in 2013. She directed The Nether by Jennifer Haley in 2015 for MCC.[3][12] She directed Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison at Playwrights Horizons in 2015. This was the second time that Kauffman and Harrison worked together.[13] In 2014 she directed the Off-Broadway production of You Got Older by Clare Barron at HERE.[14] She directed Sundown, Yellow Moon by Rachel Bonds, which premiered Off-Broadway at the WP Theater in a co-production by Ars Nova and WP in 2017. Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times, noted the " beautifully acted production...directed with probing sensitivity by Anne Kauffman."[15]

In 2017, she directed Marvin's Room on Broadway for Roundabout Theatre Company, Assassins at Encores! Off-Center, Mary Jane at New York Theater Workshop, and Hundred Days at the Under the Radar Festival and New York Theater Workshop.[16][17][18] In 2018, she directed The Lucky Ones at the Connelly Theater for Ars Nova, and Hundred Days at La Jolla Playhouse, where she is about to direct Lindsey Ferrentino's The Year to Come.[19]

Kauffman's past regional productions include Body Awareness by Annie Baker (2012) at the Wilma Theater;[20] and Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (2009); The Flea and the Professor by Jordan Harrison at the Arden Theatre Company (2011); Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (2010); We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Adam Bock and Todd Almond at Yale Rep (2010); The Communist Dracula Pageant by Anne Washburn at ART (2008); Expecting Isabel by Lisa Loomer and Doubt by John Patrick Shanley at Asolo Repertory Theatre (2007); Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison at the Humana Festival of New American Plays (2006);[21] and Typographer's Dream and Shaker Chair by Adam Bock (2005).

She is a Sundance Program Associate, a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, an alumna of the Soho Rep Writers and Directors Lab, a current member of Soho Rep’s Artistic Council, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League of New York, a founding member of The Civilians, an Associate Artist with Clubbed Thumb and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, and member of New Georges Kitchen Cabinet. From 2000-2006, Kauffman was on the directing faculty at NYU. Kauffman is an Executive Board Member of the SDC.

Kauffman is the Artistic Director of New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center, and was the co-Artistic Director with Jeanine Tesori for the 2018 season.

Awards and honors

She received the 2007 Obie Award for direction of The Thugs.[22][23]

She received the 2015 Obie Award, for sustained excellence of direction.[24]

Other awards include a Lilly Award for directing in 2010, the Alan Schneider Director Award, the Joan and Joseph Cullman award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, 2004 Big Easy Award, and Ambie Award (for The Children's Hour) in New Orleans.[25][26][27]

She has received Philadelphia's Barrymore Award for Best Direction in 2010 for Becky Shaw, and in 2012 for Body Awareness.[28][29]

Detroit by Lisa D'Amour was listed in the top 10 productions of 2012 by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Magazine and TimeOut NY.[30][31][32][33]

She was nominated for the 2015 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play for You Got Older by Clare Barron.[34]

She was nominated for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director for This Wide Night by Chloe Moss.[35]

She was nominated for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director for Belleville.[36]

She was nominated for the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director for Marjorie Prime.[37]

She was nominated for the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director, for Adam Bock's A Life.[38]

She received both the 2018 Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction of a play, and the 2018 Obie Award for Directing for Mary Jane. [39]

References
  1. Kauffman" Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine American Theatre Magazine, October 2007
  2. Grode, Eric. "Meet the Directors" New York Times, January 31, 2013
  3. Onofri, Adrienne. "BWW Interview: A Women's History Month Special [sic] with Director Anne Kauffman of 'SMOKEFALL'" broadwayworld.com, March 9, 2016
  4. Gutman, Les. "A CurtainUp Review. The Thugs " CurtainUp, October 5, 2006
  5. Gans, Andrew. "Champlin, Opel, Stuhlbarg, Sun and Miranda Among 2007 Obie Award Winners" Playbill, May 22, 2007
  6. Zoglin, Richard. "Down and Out in Paris: Amy Herzog’s 'Belleville' " Time Magazine, March 6, 2013
  7. Jones, Chris. "Review. Belleville " Chicago Tribune, July 7, 2013
  8. Green, Jesse. "Review: In 'Mary Jane,' a Young Mother Faces Her Worst Fears" The New York Times, September 25, 2017
  9. Healy, Patrick. "Staging a Sisterhood". The New York Times, January 31, 2013
  10. "INTERVIEW: Slowgirl's Anne Kauffman Takes a Direct Approach". TheaterMania, 2012
  11. "The Go-To Two: Ken Rus Schmoll and Anne Kauffman ". The Village Voice February 4, 2009
  12. Brantley, Ben. "Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web", The New York Times, February 24, 2015
  13. Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review. 'Marjorie Prime'", CurtainUp, accessed October 26, 2016
  14. Levitt, Hayley. "Review. 'You Got Older' ", TheaterMania, November 6, 2014
  15. Brantley, Ben. "Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in 'Sundown, Yellow Moon' " The New York Times, March 14, 2017
  16. "Review: 'Assassins' Offers a National Anthem for Killers". Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  17. "Review: In 'Mary Jane,' a Young Mother Faces Her Worst Fears". Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  18. "Review: Waltzing With Love and Death in 'Hundred Days'". Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  19. "Review: The Chaos Beneath the Chorale in 'The Lucky Ones'". Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  20. Rosenfield, Wendy. Review: 'Body Awareness' at the Wilma" philly.com, January 12, 2012
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  25. "Lilly Awards" Archived June 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Playbill, 2010
  26. Archived 2013-11-01 at the Wayback Machine Theater Communications Guild, 2010
  27. "Loyola's production of 'The Children’s Hour' receives Big Easy Award for Best University Production" Loyola University Press Release, April 30, 2004
  28. "Barrymore Awards" theatrephiladelphia.org, retrieved March 7, 2017
  29. Fiorillo, Victor. "The End of the Barrymore Awards?" Philly Magazine, September 25, 2012
  30. "New York Times top 10 for theater 2012" The New York Times
  31. New York Magazine top 10 for theater 2012 New York Magazine
  32. Zoglin, Richard. "Time Magazine top 10 for theater 2012" Time Magazine, December 4, 2012
  33. of-2012?pageNumber=2 Time Out NY top 10 for theater 2012 Archived February 22, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  34. Gans, Andrew; Gioia, Michael. "Drama Desk Award Winners Announced; 'Hamilton' Wins Seven Awards", Playbill, May 31, 2015
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  37. Marjorie Prime, lortel.org, accessed October 26, 2016
  38. Hetrick, Adam. " 'Hadestown' and 'Sweeney Todd' Lead Lucille Lortel Nominations" Playbill, April 4, 2017
  39. Mary Jane, lortel.org, accessed August 14, 2018
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