CAREY PERLOFF
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF
IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD WOLINSKY
CAREY PERLOFF is celebrating her 17th season as artistic director of A.C.T., where she most recently directed Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll, John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector. Known for directing innovative productions of classics and championing new writing for the theater, She is also the author of the new plays Luminescence Dating, Waiting for the Flood, Higher, and the one-act play The Morning After (Heideman Award finalist). She is currently developing a new dance-theater piece, The Tosca Project, with choreographer Val Caniparoli; Phédre (translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker) for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; and a new Bacchae for the Getty Center in Los Angeles. A recipient of France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the National Corporate Theatre Fund’s 2007 Artistic Achievement Award, Perloff received a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in classics and comparative literature from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford. She was on the faculty of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for seven years and teaches and directs in the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program.
American Conservatory Theater nurtures the art of live theater through dynamic productions, intensive actor training in its conservatory, and an ongoing dialogue with its audience and its community. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Carey Perloff and Executive Director Heather Kitchen, A.C.T. embraces its responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent the rich theatrical traditions that are our collective legacy, while exploring new artistic forms and new communities. Commitment to the highest standards informs every aspect of A.C.T.'s creative work.
