Information on past Directors Labs, including participant information.
2012
The Comedy Lab
This year, the Lab explored the comic play - how does comedy work?
2011
A DREAM PLAY Lab
The Lab focused on slowly exploring Strindberg's A DREAM PLAY with Directors, Actors and Designers.
2010
The Transcendent Experience Lab
We explored a variety of plays to find their moments of transcendence and their roots in ritual.
2009
The Personal and Cultural Identity Lab
What is your innate theatrical identity?
2008
Many Ways of Making Work: Methods and Techniques Shared
New and classical plays were explored in week-long rehearsals and rehearsal techniques were shared.
2007
Playwrights and Actors: What is their relationship today?
A look at play development: rehearsal work, collaborations with actors & playwrights organizations.
2006
Is great theater made by young artists entering existing institutions?
Looking to the past, the Lab explores how artists have banded together to create something new.
2005
The Director-Playwright Relationship
How do directors and playwrights find each other today? Work together? What needs to change?
2004
Lab Mix: The First Ten Years
Revisiting previous Lab topics, including Greek and symbolist drama, adaptations and devised work
2003
Political Theater
Fifty emerging directors explore political theater through readings and discussions.
2002
A Community Creates
The largest Lab to date involves 200 participants working on productions of 16 plays .
2001
Theater Style Lab
How do acting, design and playwriting define a theatrical style? What is our style today?
2000
Shakespearean Interpretation
Over three weeks, directors, actors, designers and dramaturgs explore A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
1999
A Celebration of the Lab's First Five Years
The Lab produces twenty-nine works at venues from SoHo to Harlem.
1998
French and African Theater, Reclaiming Past Directors, New Work
15 teams of directors, writers, actors and designers explore new works; Lassalle directs Molière.
1997
Solo Performance, Musical Pieces & Scripts in Development
Investigating solo performance, new musical theater, and plays written for specific communities.
1996
The Lab Presents 24 New Works
The Lab presented as many plays as possible in readings, rehearsals and productions.
1995
The Inaugural Lab
Seminars, symposia, discussions and active work on daily projects with leading theater artists.
