Alice Jankell • Author

Alice Jankell • Author

For Disney, Alice helped to create and develop new Broadway musicals.  As Associate Artistic Director of The Williamstown Theatre Festival, her directing work included AS YOU LIKE IT,  DINAH WAS, and ENOUGH ROPE, the special event on Dorothy Parker starring Elaine Stritch.  As Creative Director of The Barrow Group’s F.A.B. (For, About, and By) Women, Alice co-helmed the company of 125 women and helped generate and produce 48 new plays.  She has worked in theaters around the country, including the Mark Taper, L.A. Opera, The Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Hollywood Bowl, La Mama, and City Theater, among many others, as well as in film and TV.  Favorite acting roles include a solo performance, backed by the L.A. Philharmonic, at the Hollywood Bowl.  She has taught acting at Carnegie Mellon and on the graduate level.  Alice directed and co-wrote URBAN MOMFARE, which won a Best Musical Award from the NY International Fringe Festival, was a Critic’s Choice, and garnered 4 stars from Time Out.  Just before Covid, Alice directed AN ENCHANTED APRIL Off-Broadway, and more recently, she directed and filmed Craig Lucas’ brand new play, MORE BEAUTIFUL for the Putnam Theatre Alliance.  A founding member of Core Artists Ensemble, member of The Actors Studio PDW, Theatre Now National Musical Theatre Workshop, New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, and a co-founder of Putnam Theatre Alliance.

AEA/SAG-AFTRA/Dramatist Guild

 

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