Biography
Mallory Catlett is a director and dramaturg living in NYC where she works closely with a handful of performance ensembles: Latitude 14 (TINDER & RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE), Banana Bag & Bodice (GULAG HAHA, THE YOUNG WAR, PANEL.ANIMAL, THE SEWERS, THE FALL & RISE OF THE RISING FALLEN, BEOWULF & SPACE//SPACE) and the Juggernaut Theatre Company (OH WHAT WAR, THE FIRST 100 YEARS & HAIR BLOOD VINYL). Their work has premiered in NYC at HERE Arts Center, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, PS122, the Collapsable Hole and been featured at CultureMart, COIL and The Prelude Festivals. Internationally touring includes: Cafe du Toc Toc (Montreal), Dublin Fringe, (Ireland) Exit Festival (Creteil, France) and Noorderzon Festival (Groningen, Netherlands). She is also the Artistic Director of Restless Productions NYC, a nascent theatrical outfit that excavates the classical repertoire. Her first production, AS YOU LIKE IT: RESTLESS IN ARDEN, was set site-specifcally in an abandoned building and performed by a group of squatters. She has also worked on plays by contemporary writers Thomas Bradshaw, Sergi Belbel, Naomi Wallace, Normand Chaurette, Xiemena Escalante & Guillem Clua as well as plays by Chekhov, Pinter, Moliere, Brecht & Shakespeare. She was a member of the 2006 SOHO REP writers/directors lab, a 2006 Ontological Incubator resident and a HERE Artist-in-Residence from 2004-09. Her work has been funded by NYS Council for the Humanities, the NY Music Fund, NYSCA, Chashama, LMCC (MCAF and Swing Space Grants), Abrons Arts Center, Puffin, Digital Performance Institute, Edith Lutyens & Bel Geddes, Tobin Theatre Fund, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Strickland Family Fund, Greenwall Foundation, MAP Fund, the NYSCA Individual Artist Commission and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has been a guest director at SUNY Purchase and Bard College.
She received her high school diploma from the North Carolina School for the Arts, where she studied classical ballet, a BA from Bard College in Drama and Dance and an Interdisciplinary MFA from the The School for Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver where she continues to work and collaborate. In Vancouver she has directed and dramaturged 10 works for theater, opera and dance. Her work has received 6 Jessie Award nominations and been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, The Hamber Foundation and ArtsFact.
As a dramaturg, she has worked on projects for Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Ma-Yi, The Culture Project, The Labyrinth, ExP Girl, Free Fall Dance Company & Urban Stages. She received the Elliot Hayes Award for Dramaturgy for her co-direction of the Juggernaut’s THE FIRST 100 YEARS: The Professional Female Playwright and was the 2006 British Studies Fellow at the Harry Ransom Research Center at UT, Austin to study the archive of Director Joan Littlewood. Her article “Madness and Method in This Room Is Moving” is featured in the Canadian Theatre Review‘s Creative Research and New Play Development Edition (Summer 2004).
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