Bart DeLorenzo

Bart DeLorenzo

Bart DeLorenzo is a Los Angeles-based theater director and producer. He is the founding artistic director of the Evidence Room theater, a 12-year-old company renowned in Los Angeles for contemporary theater productions.

He has directed many local and world premieres at the Evidence Room including David Greenspan’s "She Stoops to Comedy", David Edgar’s "Pentecost," Kelly Stuart’s "Mayhem" (starring Megan Mullally) and "Homewrecker," Gordon Dahlquist’s "Delirium Palace" and "Messalina", John Olive’s "Killers," Philip K. Dick’s "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said," Naomi Wallace’s "One Flea Spare," Charles L. Mee’s "The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem", Robert David MacDonald’s "No Orchids for Miss Blandish," Keith Reddin’s "Almost Blue," and Harry Kondoleon’s "The Houseguests". He has also directed his own adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Hard Times", Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard", Friedrich Schiller's "Don Carlos" (as adapted by John Rafter Lee), and Edward Bond’s "Saved" and "Early Morning".

At the Evidence Room theater, he also produced award-winning productions of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth," Charles L. Mee's "The Berlin Circle," and Robert Prior's "Speed-Hedda,". He has participated in the development of new plays at South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival, the Mark Taper Forum’s New Work Festival, A.S.K. Theater Projects, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Madison Repertory, and the California Institute of the Arts.

In 2006, he directed the Center Theatre Group’s kick-off premiere event of Suzan-Lori Parks’ "365 Days/365 Plays" outdoors at the Los Angeles Music Center plaza and on the steps of Walt Disney Hall. In 2005-2007, he directed the world premiere of Sandra Tsing Loh’s long-running "Mother on Fire" at the 24th Street Theater, and subsequent revivals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Women’s Building in San Francisco. In 2007, he directed the world premiere of Donald Margulies' "Shipwrecked! An Entertainment" starring Gregory Itzin at South Coast Repertory, which was later revived at the Geffen Playhouse. In 2008, he directed the world premiere of "Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress" at the Geffen Playhouse. Awards: He has received five "LA Weekly" awards for Direction and Production and three "BackStage" Garlands for Production, Adaptation, and ‘Local Hero’ Director.

He is a graduate of Yale University and American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

External links

* [http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/bart-delorenzo-the-evidence-is-in/10575/ "LA Weekly" profile]
* [http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003813304 "Backstage" profile]
* [http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-et-plays17nov17,0,7713461.story?coll=cl-stage-top-right "LA Times" article on 365]
* [http://www.evidenceroomtheater.com/company.html Evidence Room official site]


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