Rachel Lampert

Rachel Lampert is an American playwright,[1][2] director[3] and choreographer. She works as the Artistic Director at Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

Lampert was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Career

Lampert spent her early career as a dancer[7] and founded a dance company in 1975, Rachel Lampert & Dancers,[8] [9]that toured extensively throughout the US and in Europe for fifteen years.

By 1992 she was an experienced choreographer and theatre writer. [10] Lampert moved from Brooklyn, NY to Ithaca, NY in 1997. The same year she traveled to China to stage West Side Story.

Writing credits at Kitchen Theatre Company include: And, Lately... (2013), In the Company of Dancers (2012), Waiting for Spring (2011), Summers at Rock's Edge (2010), Bed No Breakfast (2007), Tony & the Soprano (2006), The Angle of the Sun (2005), Precious Nonsense (2005), The Book Club (2004), Waltz (2001), Lampert Variations (2000); adaptations of Frankenstein (2002) and The Trial (2004). Children's productions include: Emmett & Hambone, A December Suite, The Sisters Fitzenstarts, A Christmas Carol and with collaborator Lesley Greene - Science Fair, Fools! Schmools!, The Odyssey, Winter Tales, I Have A Song To Sing O! and more.

After her trip to China, Lampert wrote The Soup Comes Last, produced off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in Fall 2004. The Angle of the Sun (written by Lampert & Pressgrove) was selected by the New York Musical Theatre Festival to be presented in New York City in September 2007.

Lampert is a four-time recipient of NEA Choreography Fellowships and a CAP Individual Artist Grant. She received a SALT Award for Best Actress 2004 in The Soup Comes Last. Her play Precious Nonsense premiered at the Kitchen and had its second production at Circle Bar-B Dinner Theater in Santa Barbara, CA. Other directing and theatrical choreography credits include productions at Cal Rep, Arkansas Rep, Portland Stage Company, New York's Public Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre and Hawaii Opera Theatre.

Lampert directed David Ives' Venus in Fur in 2014,[11] and 2015 her play Count Me In was performed at Kitchen Theatre Company.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Physics takes center stage in theater collaboration". by Linda B. Glaser, Cornell News.
  2. 1 2 "When the Past Comes Calling". Ithaca Journal.
  3. ↑ New York Theatre Review. New York Theatre Review. 1977.
  4. ↑ Turning 21: A conversation with Rachel Lampert, artistic director of The Kitchen Theatre - Ithaca Times : Arts And Entertainment
  5. ↑ 14850 Magazine - Opening Night: "From White Plains" at the Kitchen Theatre - 14850 - Ithaca News
  6. ↑ "Kitchen Theatre dives into mysterious 'Body of Water'". Ithaca Journal, JIM CATALANO, February 18, 2015
  7. ↑ The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (March 1986). The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 168–. ISSN 0011-1422.
  8. ↑ Anderson. "THE DANCE: RACHEL LAMPERT". New York Times, 2 February 1988
  9. ↑ Gerri Reaves (2012). Legendary Locals of Fort Myers. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-4671-0018-2.
  10. ↑ Dance in Review - New York Times
  11. ↑ "Top 2014 highlights in local theater". by James MacKillop, Syracuse News Times, December 31, 2014

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