MARCUS STERN

Marcus Stern (Donnie Darko adaptor/director/sound designer) is Associate Director of the American Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T./ MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. His directorial work with the A.R.T. has included The Onion Cellar with The Dresden Dolls, Adam Rapp's Stone Cold Dead Serious and Nocturne, Adrienne Kennedy's The Ohio State Murders, Büchner's Woyzeck, Sam Shepard's Buried Child, Christopher Durang’s Marriage of Bette and Boo (also at NYU and Harvard University), Carol Mack's The Accident, and Suzan Lori Parks' The America Play. A.R.T. Institute: a stage adaptation of the film Donnie Darko. Other: Hang Ong's The Chang Fragments and Martin Crimp's The Treatment at The Joseph Papp Public Theater; Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich; Jose Rivera's Marisol at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival; Mac Wellman's Hyacinth Macaw at Primary Stages in New York; Instant Girl's On the Run at Dance Theater Workshop; Mac Wellman's The Land of Fog and Whistles at the Whitney Museum Biennial; Neena Beber's The Living Goddess at The Magic Theater; Erin Cressida Wilson's Cross Dressing in the Depression at Soho Rep; and Quincy Long's Whole Hearted at the Mark Taper Forum's Taper Too in Los Angeles. His adaptations include Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits (Zurich), Phoebe's Got Three Sisters (Cucaracha Theater in New York) and O'Neill's The Great God Brown at NYU and and Harvard University. Mr. Stern has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Columbia University. He currently teaches at Harvard University, Harvard's Extension School, and A.R.T.'s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

Read a January 2002 interview with Marcus Stern and playwright Adam Rapp about their work together on Stone Cold Dead Serious.

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