Libby Appel

Oregon Shakespeare Festival: 17 seasons, Artistic Director Emerita. Artistic Director, 1995-2007. Director: A View from the Bridge, The Cherry Orchard (also adapted), The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Bus Stop, Richard III, Napoli Milionaria!, Henry VI, Part One, Henry VI, Parts Two & Three, Richard II, Macbeth, The Trip to Bountiful, The Three Sisters, Henry V, Hamlet, Henry IV, Part Two, Measure for Measure, Uncle Vanya, King Lear, The Magic Fire (also at the Kennedy Center), The Merchant of Venice, Breaking the Silence, Enrico IV, The Seagull. Regional: Measure for Measure (Intiman Theatre); The Magic Fire (Guthrie Theater); and many other theatres, including Indiana Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New Mexico Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and the Alabama, Colorado and Kern Shakespeare Festivals.

Artistic director, Indiana Repertory Theatre; dean and artistic director, School of Theatre at the California Institute of the Arts; head of the acting program, California State University, Long Beach; wrote Mask Characterization: An Acting Process; created and produced Inter/Face: The Actor and The Mask (video); co-playwright of Shakespeare’s Women andShakespeare’s Lovers; associate director, California Shakespearean Festival. Honorary doctorates from Southern Oregon University, University of Portland, Willamette University; MA, Northwestern University; BA (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Michigan.