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Edward is the
Artistic Director and founding member of the
critically-acclaimed Rabbit Hole
Ensemble theatre company, based out of Brooklyn.
In 2008, Edward won the NYIT Outstanding Director award
for his work on The Night of Nosferatu, and in 2007
he won the Award for Outstanding Direction for his work
on The Morning of My Death, at the Midtown
International Theatre Festival in
New York.
Recently, Edward has focused on directing a number of
original plays, such as: Big Thick Rod
(FringeNYC 2008 and The Access Theatre), The Night of Nosferatu
(WorkShop Theatre, NYC and Wellfleet Harbor Actors
Theatre), Land of the Undead (Next Step
Development Series); Nosferatu (based on the 1922
shooting script and performed atop the Arch at
Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza), The Transformation of
Dr. Jekyll (FringeNYC 2006), and The Siblings
(MITF 2006).
Highlights of past years include the directing of: If
She Screams by Stanton Wood at the
Juilliard School, the world premiere of
Therese Raquin by Neal Bell, the
New York premiere of Figaro Gets a Divorce
by Odon von Horvath, and acclaimed productions of In
the Jungle of Cities, Macbeth, The
Misanthrope, and Under Milk Wood, among
others, all in
New York.
While in England in the 90's, he spent time working with
refugees from the war in Kosovo - creating with them,
two commissioned pieces for the Coventry Against Racism
Festival and Midlands Refugee Council: Nobody You
Know and A Refugee Story.
Edward is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab
and New York Theatre Workshop's artistic community (The
Usual Suspects) and has received annual
production assistance grants from NYTW since 2001. He
holds a BFA from NYU's TISCH School of the Arts and an
MFA from
Indiana University. Edward teaches acting at
Hofstra University.
Currently, he is rehearsing a new ensemble-created
piece, A Rope in the Abyss, about the porous
boundaries of identity, which will be presented in
March/April 2008.
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