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Laura Savia is the Associate Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival and an award-winning director specializing in new work and community-engaged, socially relevant plays.
BIO & RESUME
Laura Savia is the Associate Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she is in her tenth season. Directing credits include the world premieres of Shakina Nayfack's Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club (upcoming, Williamstown), James Anthony Tyler’s Artney Jackson (Williamstown), Lucy Thurber’s Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires and Orpheus in the Berkshires (Williamstown), Lucy Thurber’s Unstuck (59E59/Throughline), and Bareknuckle (Vertigo Theatre) as well Ryan Haddad’s Hi, Are You Single? (Public Theater, The Guthrie). Her production of Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation for IAMA won two Ovation Awards, including Best Production. Other directing credits include James Lescesne’s The Absolute Brightness of Leonardy Pelkey (City Theatre), Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter (Itself Festival in Poland) and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale featuring Hoon Lee (Warren Miller Performing Arts Center). She has directed short plays by Rob Askins and Halley Feiffer for Naked Angels and Living Newspaper plays by Sarah Burgess and Don Nguyen (at A.R.T./Club Oberon, Joe’s Pub, and Le Poisson Rouge). She has developed work with Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Second Stage, Labyrinth Theater Company, Ars Nova, Playwrights Realm, Primary Stages, Rattlestick, and Ma-Yi Theater Company. Assistant directing includes Broadway’s The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino. Laura spent five seasons on the artistic staff at Atlantic Theater Company. She is an alum of the Drama League Directors Project and Northwestern University.
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CHONBURI INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & BUTTERFLY CLUB
by Shakina Nayfack, featuring Kate Bornstein, Annie Golden, and Shakina Nayfack
World Premiere
Williamstown Theatre Festival July 15-25, 2020
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HI, ARE YOU SINGLE?
written and performed by Ryan J. Haddad
Directed by Danny Sharron and Laura Savia
Woolly Mammoth July 17-August 2, 2020
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