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DANIEL FISH (Director) He began his career directing the plays of Shakespeare and Moliere and in recent years has made new work from sources as varied as Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life, stories by David Foster Wallace, Elliott Smith's album From A Basement On A Hill, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma. Recent productions inlcude Der Menschenfiend (Staatstheater-Braunscwheig), Kock Fight Club a multi-disciplinary work based on A Midsummer Night's Dream (Richard B. Fisher Center/Bard College), The Elliot Smith Project (Bard Summerscape) and Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf Theater, Bard Summerscape). He has directed plays by Shakespeare, Goldoni, Chekhov, Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Joe Orton, Charles L. Mee, David Rabe, David Mamet, Sarah Ruhl, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Sheila Callaghan. In New York City, his work has been produced by Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Juilliard School, HERE, and The Zipper, which opened in 2001 with his production of True Love. He has also created work for Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre/Washington DC, Baltimore Center Stage, German Theater Abroad, and California Shakespeare Theater, among others. Daniel Fish has taught directing at The Yale School of Drama, Princeton University, University of California at San Diego, and at Bard College. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Department of Performance Studies.
Bio as of October, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
Directing Shakespeare: What's It All About Willy Part 2 - April, 2001 - Listen Now.
Directing Shakespeare: What's It All About Willy Part 1 - April, 2001 - Listen Now.
Website:
www.danielfish.net
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