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KATJANA
VADEBONCOEUR
stage director
DIRECTING CREDITS
The Tall Girls (Northwest Premiere) Cornish College of the Arts
The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Seattle Premiere) Re-bar
The Beebo Brinker Pulp Cabaret Central Heating Lab, ACT
reasons to be pretty (Regional Premier) ArtsWest
Natural Selection Second Story Repertory
Titus Washington Ensemble Theatre
Mr. Marmalade (Regional Premiere) Washington Ensemble Theatre
Swimming in the Shallows (2006 Seattle Times Footlight Award “Best Off Broadway” ) Washington Ensemble Theatre
The Crossroads Project (World Premiere) Washington Ensemble Theatre
Jane Eyre University of Washington, PATP (Guest Faculty Director)
The Chalk Boy Cornish College of the Arts
Brutality of Fact Cornish College of the Arts
Girl Gone Cornish College of the Arts
Five Flights Cornish College of the Arts
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls Cornish College of the Arts
bodyBODY: Aphrodite Raves (World Premiere) Pierce College, Tacoma (Guest Faculty Director)
Sosu’s Call (dir./adapter) Book-It All Over, Book-It Repertory Theatre
Fission (2005 Seattle Times Footlight Award “Best New Play” ) Live Girls! Theater
Lu and Buck Live Girls! Theater
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit (National Tour) California Theatre Center
Trapped Mae West Fest, Seattle
ASSISTANT DIRECTING CREDITS
Pink and Say (dir. Mary Machala) Book-It All Over, Book-It Repertory Theatre
What is Sexy? (also Dramaturg; dir. Marc Kenison) Washington Ensemble Theatre Hayfever (dir. Gayle Cornelison) California Theatre Center Summer Rep
STAGED READINGS The Exit Interview (by Alan Harrison) ArtsWest
NEXUS Project (Leap, by Joy McCullough Carranza; Triptych by Paul Mullin) Next Stage
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? Sandbox Reading Series, Seattle Public Library
Murasaki (by Darian Lindle) Live Girls! Theater
Deli: The Musical (by Amber Berg & Melissa Grinley) Richard Hugo House
Lysistrata International Lysistrata Project 2003, Seattle
YOUTH DIRECTING (director and adapter) Macbeth Seattle Shakespeare Company
As You Like It Seattle Shakespeare Company
The Illusion (by Tony Kushner) California Theatre Center, Summer Conservatory Program
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe California Theatre Center, Summer Conservatory Program
Changing Places (co-wrote) West Seattle Kids Theatre
RELATED EXPERIENCE Living Voices (current) Company member. Touring five shows nationally as an Actor/Teaching Artist
Washington Ensemble Theatre (2006-09) Co-Artistic Director / Ensemble Member / Director of Marketing & PR
Seattle Shakespeare Company (2003-08) Audience Services Manager and Resident Teaching Artist
Eastside Preparatory School (2006-07) Middle school drama teacher, grades 6-8
California Theatre Center (2000-02) Tour Director. Booking, venue & performer management for 9 national tours.
Spectra F/X (1996-97) Internship in special effects design for attractions at Universal and Disney
Ojai Shakespeare Festival, CA (1993) Summer technical/artistic internship program
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Cornish College of the Arts (2006 - current) Adjunct Instructor in Theater and Performance Production Departments:
Senior Seminar; Design Studio for Directors; Neo-Burlesque:Theory and Performance.
Living Voices (2003 - current) Teach workshops nationally on performance and tolerance, grades K-12.
UW School of Drama (2007 - 09) Two years on Summer School Faculty; teaching undergraduate lecture Drama 499 “Impossible is Nothing: Theatre School to Theatre Reality”
Northwest School (2008-09) Advanced play production / acting / directing; coached student One Act Festival
Seattle Shakespeare (2002 - 08) Teaching Artist on staff. Instructor for summer Shakespeare workshops
(Camp Bill) for students aged 11-17, ‘Intro to the Play’ workshops in local high schools, directed youth productions and teach middle school and high school Shakespeare residencies.
Seattle Center Academy (2003 - 08) Co-Instructor for two-week Shakespeare intensive at Seattle Center with Seattle Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Stephanie Shine for 7th/ 8th grade students
Eastside Prep School (2006-07) Drama teacher for 6-8th grades at a private middle school in Kirkland, WA
Pierce College, Tacoma (2004) Guest Instructor/Director, Theatre Performance class / Production Practicum
California Theatre Center (2000-02) Advanced Conservatory Instructor teaching classes in acting, movement, voice,
improvisation, audition technique and contact improv with students ages 10-18.
Santa Ana High School (1999-2000) Taught theatre workshops, did acting coaching and assistant directed original play
with University of California, Irvine ArtsBridge teaching outreach program.
EDUCATIONAL GRANTS & AWARDS 2006 - Seattle Times Footlight Award for Best Off-Broadway Production (Swimming in the Shallows, director)
1999 - ArtsBridge Teaching Scholarship
1999 - Recipient of Dean’s Choice award in grant funding for UCI Senior Honors Thesis in the Arts $2,000
1998 - Tom and Elizabeth Tierney Scholarship, Dean’s Choice in School of the Arts, UCI
1995-1999 University of California Regents Scholar (full four-year academic scholarship)
1995 - Bank of America Award, Drama
EDUCATION BA in Drama from the University of California, Irvine (graduated Summa Cum Laude with a directing emphasis)
University of Lancaster, England (training in theatre, dance, Laban, Shakespeare and experimental performance)
ACTING EXPERIENCE Professional, touring and university credits available upon request.
REFERENCES Richard E.T. White, Theatre Dept. Chair, Cornish College of the Arts (206) 726-5127 RetWhite@Cornish.edu
Rachael McClinton, Artistic Director Living Voices (206) 328-0798 rmcclinton@livingvoices.org
Michael Place, Co-Founder Washington Ensemble Theatre (206) 510-3598 place.michael@gmail.com
stage director
DIRECTING CREDITS
The Tall Girls (Northwest Premiere) Cornish College of the Arts
The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Seattle Premiere) Re-bar
The Beebo Brinker Pulp Cabaret Central Heating Lab, ACT
reasons to be pretty (Regional Premier) ArtsWest
Natural Selection Second Story Repertory
Titus Washington Ensemble Theatre
Mr. Marmalade (Regional Premiere) Washington Ensemble Theatre
Swimming in the Shallows (2006 Seattle Times Footlight Award “Best Off Broadway” ) Washington Ensemble Theatre
The Crossroads Project (World Premiere) Washington Ensemble Theatre
Jane Eyre University of Washington, PATP (Guest Faculty Director)
The Chalk Boy Cornish College of the Arts
Brutality of Fact Cornish College of the Arts
Girl Gone Cornish College of the Arts
Five Flights Cornish College of the Arts
Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls Cornish College of the Arts
bodyBODY: Aphrodite Raves (World Premiere) Pierce College, Tacoma (Guest Faculty Director)
Sosu’s Call (dir./adapter) Book-It All Over, Book-It Repertory Theatre
Fission (2005 Seattle Times Footlight Award “Best New Play” ) Live Girls! Theater
Lu and Buck Live Girls! Theater
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit (National Tour) California Theatre Center
Trapped Mae West Fest, Seattle
ASSISTANT DIRECTING CREDITS
Pink and Say (dir. Mary Machala) Book-It All Over, Book-It Repertory Theatre
What is Sexy? (also Dramaturg; dir. Marc Kenison) Washington Ensemble Theatre Hayfever (dir. Gayle Cornelison) California Theatre Center Summer Rep
STAGED READINGS The Exit Interview (by Alan Harrison) ArtsWest
NEXUS Project (Leap, by Joy McCullough Carranza; Triptych by Paul Mullin) Next Stage
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? Sandbox Reading Series, Seattle Public Library
Murasaki (by Darian Lindle) Live Girls! Theater
Deli: The Musical (by Amber Berg & Melissa Grinley) Richard Hugo House
Lysistrata International Lysistrata Project 2003, Seattle
YOUTH DIRECTING (director and adapter) Macbeth Seattle Shakespeare Company
As You Like It Seattle Shakespeare Company
The Illusion (by Tony Kushner) California Theatre Center, Summer Conservatory Program
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe California Theatre Center, Summer Conservatory Program
Changing Places (co-wrote) West Seattle Kids Theatre
RELATED EXPERIENCE Living Voices (current) Company member. Touring five shows nationally as an Actor/Teaching Artist
Washington Ensemble Theatre (2006-09) Co-Artistic Director / Ensemble Member / Director of Marketing & PR
Seattle Shakespeare Company (2003-08) Audience Services Manager and Resident Teaching Artist
Eastside Preparatory School (2006-07) Middle school drama teacher, grades 6-8
California Theatre Center (2000-02) Tour Director. Booking, venue & performer management for 9 national tours.
Spectra F/X (1996-97) Internship in special effects design for attractions at Universal and Disney
Ojai Shakespeare Festival, CA (1993) Summer technical/artistic internship program
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Cornish College of the Arts (2006 - current) Adjunct Instructor in Theater and Performance Production Departments:
Senior Seminar; Design Studio for Directors; Neo-Burlesque:Theory and Performance.
Living Voices (2003 - current) Teach workshops nationally on performance and tolerance, grades K-12.
UW School of Drama (2007 - 09) Two years on Summer School Faculty; teaching undergraduate lecture Drama 499 “Impossible is Nothing: Theatre School to Theatre Reality”
Northwest School (2008-09) Advanced play production / acting / directing; coached student One Act Festival
Seattle Shakespeare (2002 - 08) Teaching Artist on staff. Instructor for summer Shakespeare workshops
(Camp Bill) for students aged 11-17, ‘Intro to the Play’ workshops in local high schools, directed youth productions and teach middle school and high school Shakespeare residencies.
Seattle Center Academy (2003 - 08) Co-Instructor for two-week Shakespeare intensive at Seattle Center with Seattle Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Stephanie Shine for 7th/ 8th grade students
Eastside Prep School (2006-07) Drama teacher for 6-8th grades at a private middle school in Kirkland, WA
Pierce College, Tacoma (2004) Guest Instructor/Director, Theatre Performance class / Production Practicum
California Theatre Center (2000-02) Advanced Conservatory Instructor teaching classes in acting, movement, voice,
improvisation, audition technique and contact improv with students ages 10-18.
Santa Ana High School (1999-2000) Taught theatre workshops, did acting coaching and assistant directed original play
with University of California, Irvine ArtsBridge teaching outreach program.
EDUCATIONAL GRANTS & AWARDS 2006 - Seattle Times Footlight Award for Best Off-Broadway Production (Swimming in the Shallows, director)
1999 - ArtsBridge Teaching Scholarship
1999 - Recipient of Dean’s Choice award in grant funding for UCI Senior Honors Thesis in the Arts $2,000
1998 - Tom and Elizabeth Tierney Scholarship, Dean’s Choice in School of the Arts, UCI
1995-1999 University of California Regents Scholar (full four-year academic scholarship)
1995 - Bank of America Award, Drama
EDUCATION BA in Drama from the University of California, Irvine (graduated Summa Cum Laude with a directing emphasis)
University of Lancaster, England (training in theatre, dance, Laban, Shakespeare and experimental performance)
ACTING EXPERIENCE Professional, touring and university credits available upon request.
REFERENCES Richard E.T. White, Theatre Dept. Chair, Cornish College of the Arts (206) 726-5127 RetWhite@Cornish.edu
Rachael McClinton, Artistic Director Living Voices (206) 328-0798 rmcclinton@livingvoices.org
Michael Place, Co-Founder Washington Ensemble Theatre (206) 510-3598 place.michael@gmail.com