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MICHAEL HALBERSTAM is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Writers' Theatre, where he has directed Love & Lunacy, A Play on Words, Dear Master, Not About Heroes (starring Nicholas Pennell), Diary of a Madman, My Own Stranger, Marriage & Bears, Blake, Memoir, Private Lives, Look Back in Anger, Candida, Fallen Angels, Nixon's Nixon, Spite for Spite, The Father, A Phoenix Too Frequent, Rough Crossing, Crime and Punishment, Benefactors, The Doctor's Dilemma, Seagull, The Uneasy Chair, The Duchess of Malfi, Othello, The Savannah Disputation, Nixon's Nixon, A Minister's Wife and most recently Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Michael appeared in the Writers' Theatre productions Two by Shaw, Oscar Remembered, Damon, Ring & F. Scott, In the Heart of Winter, the title role in Richard II, pInteracts, Loot and Misalliance. Most recently he directed A Minister's Wife in New York as part Lincoln Center Theater's 2010/11 Season. Previously, he spent two years at The Stratford Festival in Ontario and performed in Timon of Athens, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (title role), Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Macbeth. Halberstam's other Chicago acting credentials include productions with Wisdom Bridge, Court Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He spent two-and-a-half years teaching Shakespeare at The Theatre School at DePaul University. Elsewhere he directed Pledge of Allegiance (American Theatre Company), The Gamester (Northlight Theatre), A Man for All Seasons (Peninsula Players Theatre), Hamlet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Candida (Jean Cocteau Repertory in New York City, NY) and Ten Little Indians (Drury Lane Oakbrook), a highly acclaimed revival of Crime And Punishment, which Writers' Theatre produced Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theatres in New York, and most recently Enchanted April and State of the Union (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). His forays into opera have included The Rape of Lucretia (Chicago Opera Theater), Francesca da Ramini featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Eschenbach and Le Freyschutz, a Berlioz adaptation of the Weber opera conducted by Christoph Eschenbach in its North American Premiere (Ravinia Festival). Halberstam has received awards for excellence in theatre management and artistic achievement from The Chicago Drama League, The Arts & Business Council and the Chicago Lawyers for the Creative Arts. Most recently, Halberstam was awarded 2010 Zelda Fichandler Award by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, which recognizes an outstanding director or choreographer who is transforming the regional arts land scape through singular creativity and artistry in theatre.
Bio as of August, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Directors 2011 - July, 2011 - Watch now.
SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
David Cromer and Michael Halberstam - May, 2011 - Listen Now.
Stage Direction, Chicago Style - October, 2010 - Listen Now.
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