Roger Danforth
ROGER DANFORTH (Drama League, Deputy and Artistic Director) Roger Danforth has extensive credits as a producer, director, educator and arts administrator. Since 1996 he has been the artistic director of the Drama League Directors Project, the country's foremost career development program for directors, which was honored with the Theatre Museum's 2006 Award for Excellence in Theatre Arts Education. Previously, Danforth spent seven years at The Cleveland Play House as associate producer and literary manager, and as acting artistic director for the 1994-95 season. He created their new play development series (garnering three awards from AT&T On Stage and the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays), and in 1995 he directed the world premiere of Jungle Rot by Seth Greenland which received the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Citation and was published in The Best Plays of 1995-1996. In addition to many productions at The Playhouse, other regional work includes the Kennedy Center, Florida Studio Theatre, Capital Rep, InterAct Theatre, the National Showcase of New Plays, Two River Theatre Company, Capital Rep and several productions for the Berkshire Theatre Festival. His New York directing credits include productions for Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Blue Heron Theatre, Circle Rep, Westbeth Theatre Center, Urban Stages and Galt MacDermot's musical The Human Comedy for the York Theatre Company. As a producer he has been on the artistic staffs of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals, the WPA Theatre, Manhattan Ensemble Theater and Urban Stages. Danforth has taught and done guest artist residencies at numerous colleges, and is currently on the directing faculty of Marymount Manhattan College and is the directing mentor of the O'Neill Theater Center's National Puppetry Conference. He also served as a theatre panel adjudicator for the Michigan and Pennsylvania Arts Councils. Danforth holds an MFA in Directing from the School of Theatre at Florida State University and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Bio as of September, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) 2010 DCN: Directors Programs Applications - October, 2010 - Listen Now.