Evan Yionoulis
photo by Beowulf Sheehan
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She opened Manhattan Theatre Club’s Biltmore Theatre (Broadway) with Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour, directed his Everett Beekin at Lincoln Center Theatre and received an Obie Award for her direction of his Three Days of Rain at Manhattan Theatre Club, having directed the premieres of all three at South Coast Repertory. She directed Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders (2008 Lortel Award for Best Revival) and the Off-Broadway premiere of Howard Brenton’s Sore Throats for Theatre for a New Audience, as well as the premieres of Daisy Foote’s Him at Primary Stages and her Bhutan at the Cherry Lane.
She directed Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood (starring Kate Burton) at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
As a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre, she has directed Richard II, The Master Builder, George F. Walker’s Heaven, Brecht’s Galileo, Gozzi’s The King Stag (which she adapted with composer Mike Yionoulis and Catherine Sheehy), Caryl Churchill’s Owners, and numerous other productions including the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Bossa Nova.
Other credits include productions at the Mark Taper Forum, the Huntington, NY Shakespeare Festival, the Vineyard, 2econd Stage, American Music Theatre Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center, Portland Stage, PlayMakers Rep, and many others.
Lost and Found, her short film, made with Mike Yionoulis, premiered at Cleveland International Film Festival. Their most recent collaborations include the transmedia project, Redhand Guitar, which tells the story of five generations of American musicians linked by desire, loneliness, and the spirit of protest [redhandguitar.com], and the theatre piece The Dread Pirate Project which, through the story of Silk Road (the illicit eBay of the “deep web”), explores the nature of identity, the elusive quest for 21st century anonymity, and the deceptively thin membrane between the digital and natural worlds.
She has directed Seven, a documentary theatre piece about extraordinary women from across the globe who work for human rights, in New York, Boston, Washington, Aspen, London, Deauville, and New Delhi.
She received a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship and was subsequently awarded the Foundation’s prestigious statuette. She is Professor (adjunct) in the Yale School of Drama’s Departments of Acting (which she chaired from 1998-2003) and Directing. She serves on the Executive Board of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
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International Creative Management
730 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 556-5600