Bart DeLorenzo
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Bart DeLorenzo is a Los Angeles-based theater director and producer. He is the founding artistic director of the Evidence Room theater, a 14-year-old company renowned in Los Angeles
for contemporary theater productions.
He has directed many local and world premieres at the Evidence Room including David Greenspan
’s She Stoops to Comedy, David Edgar
’s Pentecost, Kelly Stuart’s Mayhem (starring Megan Mullally
) and Homewrecker, Gordon Dahlquist
’s Delirium Palace and Messalina, John Olive’s Killers, Philip K. Dick
’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
, Naomi Wallace
’s One Flea Spare
, Charles L. Mee
’s The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Robert David MacDonald
’s No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Keith Reddin
’s Almost Blue, and Harry Kondoleon
’s The Houseguests. He has also directed his own adaptation of Charles Dickens
's Hard Times
, Anton Chekhov
's The Cherry Orchard
, Friedrich Schiller
's Don Carlos
(as adapted by John Rafter Lee), and Edward Bond
’s Saved
and Early Morning.
At the Evidence Room theater, he also produced award-winning productions of Thornton Wilder
's The Skin of Our Teeth
, Charles L. Mee
's The Berlin Circle, and Robert Prior's Speed-Hedda,. He has participated in the development of new plays at South Coast Repertory
’s Pacific Playwrights Festival
, the Mark Taper Forum
’s New Work Festival, A.S.K. Theater Projects, the Ojai Playwrights Conference
, Madison Repertory, and the California Institute of the Arts
.
In 2006, he directed the Center Theatre Group
’s kick-off premiere event of Suzan-Lori Parks
’ 365 Days/365 Plays outdoors at the Los Angeles Music Center
plaza and on the steps of Walt Disney Concert Hall
. In 2005-2007, he directed the world premiere of Sandra Tsing Loh
’s long-running Mother on Fire at the 24th Street Theater, and subsequent revivals at the Pasadena Playhouse
, the Sundance Film Festival
, and the Women’s Building in San Francisco. In 2007, he directed the world premiere of Donald Margulies
' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment starring Gregory Itzin
at South Coast Repertory
, which was later revived at the Geffen Playhouse
. In 2008, he directed the world premiere of Joan Rivers
: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress at the Geffen Playhouse
and the west coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl
's Dead Man's Cell Phone at South Coast Repertory
. In 2009, he directed Mark Brown's adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Playhouse, the world premiere of Michael Sargent's The Projectionist (starring Hamish Linklater
) at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
, the world premiere of Justin Tanner's Voice Lessons (starring Laurie Metcalf
) at the Zephyr Theater, Caryl Churchill
's A Number
(starring John Heard) at the Odyssey Theater, and Adam Bock
's The Receptionist (starring Megan Mullally
). In 2010, he directed Charles L. Mee's "bobrauschenbergamerica" for TheSpyAnts Theatre Company at [Inside] The Ford. In 2010, he directed King Lear for the Antaeus Company. This production won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production and Best Direction.
Awards: He has received five LA Weekly Theater Award
s for Direction and Production and three Back Stage
Garlands for Production, Adaptation, and ‘Local Hero’ Director.
He is a graduate of Yale University
and American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training
at Harvard University
.
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for contemporary theater productions.
He has directed many local and world premieres at the Evidence Room including David Greenspan
David Greenspan
David Greenspan is an award-winning American actor and playwright. In 1997 he received an Obie Award for his work in the off-broadway revival of Boys in the Band....
’s She Stoops to Comedy, David Edgar
David Edgar (playwright)
David Edgar is a British playwright and author who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.He was resident playwright at the Birmingham...
’s Pentecost, Kelly Stuart’s Mayhem (starring Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...
) and Homewrecker, Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright, theater director, novelist and experimental filmmaker. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include Mesilina and Delirium Palace , have been performed in New York and Los Angeles...
’s Delirium Palace and Messalina, John Olive’s Killers, Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick about a genetically enhanced pop singer and television star who loses his identity overnight. The story is set in a futuristic dystopia, where America has become a police state after a Second Civil War. The novel...
, Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky, United States.-Life:Wallace obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and did graduate studies at the University of Iowa....
’s One Flea Spare
One Flea Spare
One Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace, is an award-winning play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London.Play synopsis from Eclipse Theater:A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together...
, Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts.-Early Life and Early Career:...
’s The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Robert David MacDonald
Robert David MacDonald
Robert David MacDonald , was a Scottish playwright, translator and theatre director.-Work as a Theatre Director:...
’s No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Keith Reddin
Keith Reddin
Keith Reddin is an American actor and playwright. He received his B.S. in 1978 from Northwestern University and then went on to attend The Yale University School of Drama until he received his M.A. in 1981....
’s Almost Blue, and Harry Kondoleon
Harry Kondoleon
Harry Kondoleon was a gay American playwright and novelist.He was born on February 26, 1955; and died of AIDS on March 16, 1994, aged 39.He graduated from Hamilton College and the Yale School of Drama...
’s The Houseguests. He has also directed his own adaptation of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
's Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times - For These Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times....
, Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
's The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
, Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
's Don Carlos
Don Carlos (play)
Don Carlos is a historical tragedy in five acts by Friedrich Schiller; it was written between 1783 and 1787 and first produced in Hamburg in 1787...
(as adapted by John Rafter Lee), and Edward Bond
Edward Bond
Edward Bond is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK...
’s Saved
Saved (play)
Saved is a play written by Edward Bond, and was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1965. It was originally enacted privately, under "club" auspices, since the play was initially censored due largely to the infamous 'stoning of a baby' scene.The play itself is set in London during...
and Early Morning.
At the Evidence Room theater, he also produced award-winning productions of Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...
's The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942...
, Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee
Charles L. Mee is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts.-Early Life and Early Career:...
's The Berlin Circle, and Robert Prior's Speed-Hedda,. He has participated in the development of new plays at South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson and now under the leadership of Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Managing Director Paula Tomei, is widely...
’s Pacific Playwrights Festival
Pacific Playwrights Festival
The Pacific Playwrights Festival , a national forum for playwrights and theatre leaders, is dedicated to developing and producing new American plays. It is held every summer at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California....
, the Mark Taper Forum
Mark Taper Forum
The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...
’s New Work Festival, A.S.K. Theater Projects, the Ojai Playwrights Conference
Ojai Playwrights Conference
The Ojai Playwrights Conference is a theatre festival held annually each August in Ojai, California. The mission of the conference is to offer play development resources to dramatists with the aim of supporting the creation of new work for the American theatre. Lasting ten days writers participate...
, Madison Repertory, and the California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...
.
In 2006, he directed the Center Theatre Group
Center Theatre Group
Center Theatre Group is a non-profit arts organization located in Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest theatre companies in the nation, programming subscription seasons year-round at the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre...
’s kick-off premiere event of Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:...
’ 365 Days/365 Plays outdoors at the Los Angeles Music Center
Los Angeles Music Center
The Music Center is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall...
plaza and on the steps of Walt Disney Concert Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the...
. In 2005-2007, he directed the world premiere of Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh is a Los Angeles, California-based writer, actress, performance-artist, pop-culture analyst, and radio commentator.-Biography:Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father and a German mother...
’s long-running Mother on Fire at the 24th Street Theater, and subsequent revivals at the Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena Playhouse
The Pasadena Playhouse is a historic performing arts venue located 39 S El Molino Avenue in Pasadena, California. The 686-seat auditorium produces a variety of cultural and artistic events, professional shows, and community engagements each year.-History:...
, the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
, and the Women’s Building in San Francisco. In 2007, he directed the world premiere of Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University...
' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment starring Gregory Itzin
Gregory Itzin
Gregory Martin Itzin is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as disgraced U.S. President Charles Logan in the television series 24.-Early life:...
at South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson and now under the leadership of Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Managing Director Paula Tomei, is widely...
, which was later revived at the Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse
The Geffen Playhouse is a not for profit performing arts theater in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally named the Westwood Playhouse, UCLA purchased the property in 1993. UCLA's then chancellor, Charles E. Young, appointed Gil Cates Producing Director...
. In 2008, he directed the world premiere of Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries...
: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress at the Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse
The Geffen Playhouse is a not for profit performing arts theater in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally named the Westwood Playhouse, UCLA purchased the property in 1993. UCLA's then chancellor, Charles E. Young, appointed Gil Cates Producing Director...
and the west coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.-Biography:Ruhl was born in Wilmette, Illinois. Originally, she intended to be a poet. However, after she studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University , she was convinced to switch to playwrighting...
's Dead Man's Cell Phone at South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson and now under the leadership of Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Managing Director Paula Tomei, is widely...
. In 2009, he directed Mark Brown's adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Playhouse, the world premiere of Michael Sargent's The Projectionist (starring Hamish Linklater
Hamish Linklater
Hamish Linklater is an American actor. He is best known as Matthew in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine...
) at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Kirk Douglas Theatre
The Kirk Douglas Theatre is located in Culver City, California and in 2004, was acquired by the famed Center Theatre Group. The theatre is the most intimate of the group's three stages and seats 317 patrons at max occupancy.- History :...
, the world premiere of Justin Tanner's Voice Lessons (starring Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf
Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and as Debbie Salt in Scream 2...
) at the Zephyr Theater, Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer...
's A Number
A Number
A Number is a 2002 play by English playwright Caryl Churchill which addresses the subject of human cloning and identity, especially nature versus nurture...
(starring John Heard) at the Odyssey Theater, and Adam Bock
Adam Bock
Adam Bock is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. Adam was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an artistic associate of the Shotgun Players, an award-winning San Francisco theater group. His play Medea Eats was produced in 2000 by Clubbed Thumb, who subsequently...
's The Receptionist (starring Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer.After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway...
). In 2010, he directed Charles L. Mee's "bobrauschenbergamerica" for TheSpyAnts Theatre Company at [Inside] The Ford. In 2010, he directed King Lear for the Antaeus Company. This production won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production and Best Direction.
Awards: He has received five LA Weekly Theater Award
LA Weekly Theater Award
LA Weekly Theater Award is an annual critics' award established in 1979, given by the LA Weekly for outstanding achievements in small theatre productions in Southern California...
s for Direction and Production and three Back Stage
Back Stage
Back Stage is an entertainment-industry brand aimed at people working in film and the performing arts, with a special focus on casting, job opportunities, and career advice.Back Stage publishes a weekly tabloid-sized trade magazine in the U.S...
Garlands for Production, Adaptation, and ‘Local Hero’ Director.
He is a graduate of Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
and American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training
The A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University was established in 1987 by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Institute is a training ground for the professional American theater. In 1998, the A.R.T...
at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
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