ANYA SAFFIR. Directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing at The American Repertory Theater Institute, American Sojourns: Three Plays by Thornton Wilder at The Moscow Art Theater, an all-male Romeo and Juliet at American Theater of Actors, Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle with Pipeline Theatre Company (ITBA award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Show), Hamlet with Orpheus Productions (NY Innovative Theater Award nomination for Outstanding Direction), The True Story of the Three Little Pigs for Atlantic for Kids and Chekhov’s Three Sisters with Muse Theater Company. Anya has served as Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company, Adjunct Professor at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and is a longtime faculty member at Atlantic Acting School where she teaches Chekhov scene study and has directed Twelfth Night, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and As You Like it, among others. She is a regular contributor on Shakespeare topics for NPR’s The Takeaway with John Hockenberry. The Velveteen Rabbit is her 11th collaboration with composer Cormac Bluestone.
