GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH. Atlantic: Simon Stephens’s Harper Regan and Bluebird (with Simon Russell Beale); Nancy Harris’s Our New Girl. World premieres: Nick Gandiello’s The Blameless (The Old Globe); Clare Lizzimore’s Animal (Studio Theatre, Helen Hayes nomination); Laura Marks’s Bethany (Women’s Project); Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match (The Old Globe); Melissa Ross’s Of Good Stock (South Coast Repertory). Other recent directing: The Year of Magical Thinking (with Kathleen Turner at Arena Stage); Lucy Thurber’s Stay (Rattlestick); and at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival An Iliad(also at West Point) and As You Like It (also at Folger Theater), winner of the international Falstaff Award for Best Production, nominated for Falstaff Award for Best Director. Upchurch has developed new work at New Dramatists, NYTW, The Public, Roundabout, MTC, NY Stage & Film, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights’ Center, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Alum of The Drama League, WP Theater Directors Lab, LCT Directors Lab, and the UNC School of the Arts.
