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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

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