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BOB HALL

2534 J Street, #4
Lincoln NE 68510
402-770-5065
bob@bobhall.com

IN 2008, for FLATWATER SHAKESPEARE
      •  The Misanthrope in April 2008 at the Haymarket Theatre
      •  The Taming of The Shrew in June 2008 and Richard III in Septermber 2008 at The Swan Theatre.

OTHER CURRENT ACTIVITY 2006-2007
•Artistic Director, Flatwater Shakespeare
      Since 2001, I have been the Artistic Director of The Flatwater Shakespeare Festival which I cofounded, and which performs primarily at the Swan Theater, in Lincoln, Nebraskaπs historic Wyuka cemetery. Flatwater is a not for profit organization, performing three productions per season. Through my work with Flatwater, I've directed Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Tempest, Hamlet, Measure For Measure, Henry V, On the Verge, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Loveπs Laborπs Lost and King Lear. The Festival has been the recipient of numerous foundation and arts council grants. I have also received a Mayorπs Arts Award for my work with Flatwater.
• Director, Haymarket Theatre, Lincoln, NE
      I last directed I am My Own Wife, in February, 2007, at the Haymarket Theatre, and have worked closely since 2002 with this new theatre in Lincoln Nebraska's restored warehouse area. [As of the end of June 2008, I was named Artistic Director of the Haymarket Theatre.] My work with the Haymarket Theatre includes directing The Passion of Dracula, The White Rose, and Pride and Prejudice (named best production of 2004 by the Lincoln Journal Star.) The Haymarket has also been a frequent collaborator with the Flatwater Shakespeare Festival.
• Freelance Directing Work
      - Whale Nation (One Person play): The Yard, Martha's Vineyard, July 2006; August 2007.
      - The Full Monty: Lincoln Playhouse, April, 2007.

RESIDENT POSITIONS
• Artistic Director, Nebraska Repertory, Lincoln ,NE.
      I was hired to facilitate the conversion of this twenty-year-old University associated repertory theatre to an Equity contract. I produced six summer seasons, selecting all plays, hiring the artistic staff, creating production budgets, participating in fund raising and developing long-range plans. I directed Noises Off, On the Verge, The Real Thing, Pirates of Penzance, On The Twentieth Century, Big River, and The Tempest. 1988-1993
• Guest Artistic Director, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Lincoln NE.
      Directed Harvey, Passion of Dracula, and Evita.  Developed Lincoln's first multi-cultural audition workshop; served on Multi-Cultural Arts Committee of the Lincoln Arts Council. 1991-92
• Co-Artistic Director and Founding Member, New Rude Mechanicals, New York City.
      I cofounded this off-off Broadway resident theatre company, producing four seasons of classical plays.We were awarded grants from New York Community Trust and New York State Council on the Arts. Directed The Misanthrope, The Winter's Tale, Henry V, Bloody Poetry, and Measure for Measure. 1988-1992.
• Resident Director, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick NJ.
      Directed The Caretaker, Arms and The Man, What the Butler Saw, Sleuth, That Championship Season, Count Dracula, Twelfth Night, Hedda Gabler, Candida, Loot, Master Harold and The Boys, The Importance of Being Earnest and Mrs. Warren's Profession. 1974-1986
• Guest Artistic Director, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick NJ.
      I selected the season, hired artistic personnel, co-created a touring children's theatre funded by CETA grant and directed Man and Superman. 1977-78
• Associate Director, CSC Repertory, New York City.
      I directed two seasons which included The Homecoming, Loot, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, and The Misanthrope. 1973-1975
• Artistic Director, Omaha Junior Theatre, Omaha NE.
      I developed a touring educational program demonstrating Shakespearean play production; taught acting workshops; wrote a successful Nebraska Arts Council start up proposal for salaries and equipment and designed and directed six productions. 1969-1971

GUEST ARTIST
Midlands Lutheran College, Fremont, NE ≠ Directed A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2008
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI ≠ Directed The Tempest, 2001
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY ≠ Directed Night of the Iguana, 1999 and A View From the Bridge, 2000.
Julliard School, New York City ≠ Directed Man and Superman, 1990  
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE ≠ Taught advanced acting and directed As You Like It, 1988
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY ≠ Directed Saint Joan, 1980, and Misalliance, 1974
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA ≠ Directed Vanities, 1979
Livingston College, East Brunswick, NJ ≠ Taught improvisational acting, 1977

FREELANCE DIRECTOR
Dangerous Liaisons:  Lincoln Playhouse, 2003
Romeo and Juliet:  Grand Rapids, Civic Theatre , 2002
All My Sons:  Lincoln Playhouse, 2002
The Comedy of Errors:  Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, 1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream:  Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Orlando FL, 1992
Twelfth Night:  Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Orlando FL, 1991
Crimes of the Heart:  Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery AL, 1989
Harvey:  Boars Head Theatre, Lansing MI 1983
Born Yesterday:  Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY, 1983
Dusa Fish Stas and Vi:  Douglas Fairbanks Studio, New York City, 1982
Passion of Dracula:  Boars Head Theatre, Lansing MI, 1981
Equus:  Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY, 1980
Passion of Dracula:  Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY, 1980
Passion of Dracula:  Hamilton Theatre, Hamilton, Bermuda 1980
Passion of Dracula:  On Broadway Theatre, San Francisco CA 1979
Pygmalion:  Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY, 1979
Entertaining Mr. Sloane:  T. Schreiber Studio producing unit, New York City, 1976
What the Butler Saw:  T. Schreiber Studio producing unit, New York City, 1975
Playboy of the Western World:  T. Schreiber Studio producing unit, NYC, 1975
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Much Ado About Nothing, Oh! What a Lovely War, and Macbeth: Nebraska Repertory, Lincoln NE, 1969-71

NEW PLAY PRODUCTION
Created new plays each season for Nebraska Repertory, Lincoln NE, presenting ten public readings and one full production each year, 1990-93
Member of New Dramatists directors' unit, New York City, 1982-84
Produced reading series for new plays, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, New York City, 1981-83
New plays directed:
       Horseplay, West Bank Theatre, New York City, 1995
       Down by the Station, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Madison NJ, 1990
       The Sixth Floor, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, New York City, 1985
       Cemetery Man (1984), Chug (1984), Rupert's Birthday (1984), Parlay (1980), and The Memoirs of Charley Pops, (1979),
                        George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick NJ
       R.E.O., Boars Head Theatre, Lansing MI, 1982
       Groves of Academe, People's Light and Theatre Co., Malvern PA, 1982
       Didn't He Ramble, Nebraska Laboratory Theatre, Lincoln NE 1966

PLAYWRIGHT
• Passion of Dracula:  Co-authored with David Richmond. Co-produced Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1977-79. Produced at the Queens Theatre in London's West End, toured the United States, and was filmed for Showtime. Samuel French, publisher; also published by Doubleday in Thirteen Plays of Ghosts and the Supernatural
• Never Bigger Than Her Head:  Produced by New Rude Mechanicals, New York City, 1990
• Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus:  Co-authored with David Richmond. Premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1987. Produced in American Sign Language by Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf, Cleveland Playhouse, 1986. Featured at Great Plains Theatre Festival, Abilene KS, 1997. Script revised for workshop production, Futz Theatre, Lincoln NE, 1998
• The Misanthrope:  Co-adapted with Lorraine Ross Hall. Produced by CSC Repertory, 1974, and by New Rude Mechanicals, 1987

EDUCATION
Master of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE
Additional training:
      Post graduate study in theatre arts: University of Iowa
      Grotowski Movement: Jerry Mayer, New York City
      Playwrighting: Mick Casalle, New York University
      Alexander Technique: Marge Barstow, Lincoln NE

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
Dramatists Guild
Actor's Equity Association
National Cartoonists Society

RELATED SKILLS
Dialogue Coach specializing in Shakespeare.
Scenery Designer for more than thirty productions; trained under Arnold Gillette at the University of Iowa.
Actor. Have played over a hundred unique roles. List available on request.
Illustrator, specializing in theatre posters, programs, brochures, logos, caricatures, portraits tee-shirts etc.
Storyboard artist for film and television projects.
Professional comic book artist, writer and editor for Marvel, D.C., and Valiant comic books. Internationally published.

REFERENCES
Stephen Buhler. Professor of English, Universtiy of Nebraska. Co- founder, Flatwater Shakespeare. Department of English, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 202 Andrews, Lincoln, NE 68588- 0333, 402-472-1784, sbuhler1@unl.edu

Eric Krebs. Broadway and Off Broadway Producer, Professor of Theatre, Baruch, University. Founder of The George Street Playhouse. 155 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor, New York NY 10036. 212- 967-7079.

Tice Miller. formerly Executive Director, Nebraska Repertory and Chairman, University of Nebraska Department of Theatre. 215 Temple Building, 12th and R Streets, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 68588-0201. 402-472-2072.

Virginia Smith. Executive Director, Nebraska Repertory, 215 Temple Building, 12th and R Streets, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 68588-0201.
402-472-2072.

Paul Steger. Chair of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln Department of Theatre and Film, Executive Director, Nebraska Repertory, 215 Temple Building, 12th and R Streets, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 68588- 0201. 402-472-2072 .

Fred Stuart. Former Executive Director, The Haymarket Theatre, 803 Q Street, Lincoln, NE 68508,402-477-2600, fredstuart9@alltel.net

David Feldshuh. Artistic Director , Center for Theatre Arts, Cornell University 430 College Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850-4696. 607-254-2700

Dennis Kennedy. Chair, Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama & Theatre Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Phone: 353-1-608-2559. Fax: 353-1-679-3488

Jim Volz. Department of Theatre & Dance, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92634-9480. 714-773-3628