Starting this week, CHALK will get it’s first director, Caitlin Ryan O’Connell.
Up until this point, CHALK has grown with the help of a host of “Outside Eyes” – friends and collaborators from all disciplines who have shared their ideas and questions to help CHALK grow, and their contributions have been invaluable.
Now, Caitlin is joining the process to work on the overall shape of the piece. Together, she and Alex will help shape and polish CHALK to improve its flow and make it more cohesive.
Caitlin and Alex met while they were both studying at the Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company MFA programs, but this is their first time collaborating on a project together.
We’re excited to see what leaps forward CHALK makes from here. We hope you’ll come check it out!
Find out more about Caitlin Ryan O’Connell at her website, or read her bio below!
Caitlin Ryan O’Connell is a theatre director and teaching artist focused on creating work that reflects the immediacy of our current social, cultural, environmental, and political life. Her work attempts to excavate the collision of all the minds and bodies in the room to generate a collective story. Originally from Waterville Valley, New Hampshire she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked with The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, LCT3, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Repertory Company, and Clubbed Thumb. In 2010, she conceived and directed A World of Girls, an original play based on interviews with teenage girls from twenty-two countries worldwide. At Brown/Trinity Rep Caitlin directed Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Will Eno’s GNIT. Caitlin is a 2016/2017 Clubbed Thumb directing fellow and a former directing intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has trained with the National Theater Institute, St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon McBurney’s Complicite and the NY Neofuturists. She is a teaching artist with The International Theatre and Literacy Project and works in Rwanda to devise theatre with Rwandan youth. Caitlin is an alumna of Wellesley College and a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Directing class of 2016.