Stern, Marcus

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STERN, Marcus

PERSONAL

Education: Yale University, M.F.A., drama. Avocational Interests: Video games.

Addresses: Office— American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Contact— marcusstern@mediaone.net

Career: Director, sound designer, and writer. American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, associate director of company and associate director and preceptor of acting at the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School (A.R.T./MXAT) Institute for Advanced Theatre Training affiliated with Harvard University. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, lecturer in dramatic arts and faculty advisor to Harvard–Radcliffe Dramatic Club. Also an instructor at Columbia University and New York University, both New York City, and Yale University, New Haven, CT.

CREDITS

Stage Director:

The Treatment, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1993.

The America Play, American Repertory Theatre, New Stages, Hasty Pudding Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1994.

The Hyacinth Macaw, Primary Stages Theatre, New York City, 1994.

The Accident, American Repertory Theatre, New Stages, Hasty Pudding Theatre, 1995.

(And sound designer with Christopher Walker) Buried Child, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 1996.

The Chang Fragments, New York Shakespeare Festival, LuEsther Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1996.

(And sound designer with Walker) Woyzeck, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 1997.

(And sound designer with Walker) Peter Pan and Wendy, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 1997–1998.

The Ohio State Murders, American Repertory Theatre, New Stages, Hasty Pudding Theatre, 2000.

(And sound designer with David Remedios) Nocturne, American Repertory Theatre, New Stages, Hasty Pudding Theatre, 2000, then New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, 2001.

The Great God Brown, Harvard–Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Main Stage, Cambridge, MA, 2001, then New York City.

Stone Cold Dead Serious, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 2002.

Donnie Darko, American Repertory Theatre, Zero Church Street Performance Space, Cambridge, MA, 2003.

Director of Cross Dressing in the Depression, Soho Repertory Theatre, New York City; Instant Girl's on the Run, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York City; Juliet of the Spirits, Theatre Neumarkt, Zurich, Switzerland; The Land of Fog and Whistles, Whitney Museum Biennial, New York City; The Living Goddess, Magic Theatre; Marisol, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY; The Marriage of Bette and Boo, American Repertory Theatre, Hasty Pudding Theatre and New York University, New York City; The Tibetan Book of the Dead (opera), American Music Theatre Festival, MTI Theatre, Philadelphia, PA; and Whole Hearted, Taper Too, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles.

WRITINGS

Stage Adaptations:

The Great God Brown (based on the work by Eugene O'Neill), Harvard–Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Main Stage, Cambridge, MA, 2001, then New York City.

Author of Juliet of the Spirits (based on the screenplay by Federico Fellini), Theatre Neumarkt, Zurich, Switzerland; and Phoebe's Got Three Sisters, Cucaracha Theatre, New York City.