SARAH RASMUSSEN started her first theater company at 14 in her hometown of Sisseton, South Dakota after seeing a Garland Wright production. Since then she's gone on to a national freelance career with critical acclaim for inventive visual storytelling, intellectually ambitious yet accessible productions and a generous exchange between actor and audience. She is currently a director with the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab and Women's Project Lab, and also serves as a Literary Consultant and Associate Director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival's innovative Black Swan Lab. Recent work include Chile Pod, a new TYA musical (La Jolla Playhouse), Red Ink (Mixed Blood) 1001 (Mixed Blood), Eurydice (Long Island Univ., ACTF nom.) Sarah has developed and directed new work at centers including The O'Neill, PlayPenn, New Dramatists, The Lark, TheaterMasters Take Ten Festival, UCSD's Baldwin New Play Festival and PS 122. Other credits include an original Hurricane Katrina inspired Twelfth Night, The Skin of Our Teeth (UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse), The Little Prince, Mac Wellman's School for Devils, DNA (Hangar Theater/Wedge) . She is a former Fulbright Scholar, Drama League Directing Fellow, Jack O'Brien Directing Fellow, member of Lincoln Center Director's Lab and Phil Killian Directing Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
Resident Director, Black Swan Lab: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
SELECTED DIRECTING
Chile Pod (TYA musical) Rhiana Yazzie La Jolla Playhouse, CA
Here We Are: Plays by Women Boothe, Parker, Glaspell, Douglas Johnson Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR
TAKE 10 New Play Festival Joe Luis Cedillo, Erica Lipez, Kimber Lee Theater Masters/Rattlestick, NY
Women's Project 2010 Showcase Kristen Palmer, Andrea Kuchlewska, Stephanie Zadravec Women's Project, NY
1001 Jason Grote Mixed Blood Theater, MN
Red Ink First Nation playwrights from US & Canada Mixed Blood Theater, MN
A Flea in Her Ear (ACTF nom.) Feydeau Long Island University BFA, NY
Eurydice (ACTF nom.) Sarah Ruhl Long Island University BFA, NY
The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, CA
Twelfth Night Shakespeare UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, CA
Bureau of Missing Persons Lila Rose Kaplan UCSD Baldwin New Play Festival, CA
Red State Blue Grass Josh Tobiessen UCSD Baldwin New Play Festival, CA
Catching Flight Lila Rose Kaplan UCSD Baldwin New Play Festival, CA
School for Devils Mac Wellman Hangar Theatre Lab Co., NY
DNA Christina Gorman Hangar Theatre Lab Co., NY
The Little Prince Antoine de St. Exupery Hangar Theatre Kiddstuff. NY
Collected Stories Donald Margulies Hwy. 19 Prod./The Playwrights' Center, MN
SELECTED NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT
Fort Lee (upcoming) Lloyd Suh SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, NY
The Tale (musical) Tommy Smith The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, CT
Wildflower Lila Rose Kaplan PlayPenn, PA & The Lark, NY
Catching Flight Lila Rose Kaplan New Dramatists, NY
Exit, Pursued by a Bear Lauren Gunderson Black Swan Lab, OR
Vattago Ian Cohen PS 122, NY
And So It Goes Aaron Posner Two River Theater Co., NJ
A Bed the Size of Portugal Mat Smart Playwrights' Center, MN
Beneficiaries Mat Smart Playwrights' Center, MN
American Sexy Trista Baldwin Playwrights' Center, MN
Water Street Alex Lewin Immigrant Theater, MN
I Am Montana Sam Hunter Long Island University BFA, NY
TRAINING / EDUCATION
MFA in Directing, University of California, San Diego/La Jolla Playhouse (Darko Tresnjak, Naomi Iizuka, Kyle Donnelly)
BA in Theatre and English, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa (Gary Gisselman)
ASSOCIATIONS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Women's Project Directors Lab, NY 2010-12
SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, NY 2010-11
Phil Killian Fellow, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR 2010
Jack O'Brien Directing Fellow, CA 2007
Drama League Directing Fellow, NY 2005 L
Lincoln Center Director's Lab, NY 2003, 2004 Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, NY
Fulbright Scholar in Theatre, Oslo, Norway 2001-02
SELECTED ASSISTANT DIRECTING
In the Next Room dir. Les Waters Broadway/Lincoln Center Theater, NY
Merchant of Venice dir. Bill Rauch Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR
Ruined dir. Liesl Tommy Oregon Shakespeare Festival, OR
Measure for Measure dir. Michelle Hensley The Public Theater, NY
Romeo & Juliet dir. Ethan McSweeny Guthrie Theater, MN
Three Sisters dir. Joe Dowling Guthrie Theater, MN
The Seven dir. Jo Bonney La Jolla Playhouse, CA
The Adding Machine dir. Daniel Aukin La Jolla Playhouse, CA
Titus Andronicus & A Midsummer Night's Dream dir. Darko Tresnjak The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival, CA
REFERENCES, TEACHING RESUME UPON REQUEST