Bill Reichblum

Bill Reichblum, a theatre director and producer, is the founder and president of KadmusArts Corporation. KadmusArts is an arts and technology company that creates online content, platforms, and services for arts, media, and entertainment companies to connect to audiences worldwide. The company was founded in 2004 and named for the ancient Greek figure, Kadmus, who brought culture to mankind in the form of the alphabet.

From 1990 to 2003, Reichblum created the international productions of "Cinders of Thebes", "Strindberg: Reverie", and "The Revealed One" [ [http://anthrobus.lviv.ua/projects.php?lang=en "The Revealed One"] ] for festivals and presenters in Canada, Denmark, France, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United States. In addition to these tours, Reichblum produced "Jean Genet: L’Homme en Guerre" with the Académie Expérimentale des Théâtres, "A Meeting with Jerzy Grotowski": "Art as Vehicle," "Alice Point Love" by Theatre Shtrih of Bulgaria and the Gardzienice Theatre Association's [ [http://www.gardzienice.art.pl/"Gardzienice Theatre Association"] ] production and residency of Wlodzimierz Staniewski's "Metamorphoses".

While studying directing at Columbia University in the early eighties, Reichblum worked as an assistant to the Polish theatre director and theoretician, Jerzy Grotowski. Reichblum’s thesis production at Columbia, Aeschylus’ "Prometheus Bound" [ [http://www.lamama.org/archives/year_lists/1984page.htm "Prometheus Bound" at LaMaMa] ] moved to New York’s avant-garde theatre center, La Mama E.T.C. Reichblum subsequently became resident director and dramaturge for new works at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California; artistic director of the Pacific Jewish Theatre in Berkeley, California, which won the John F. Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays award for Shem Bitterman’s Beijing Legends; and associate artistic director of Theatre for A New Audience [ [http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=940DE6D8103AF935A25756C0A96E948260&oref=slogin New York Times Review of "Evening Star"] ] in New York, New York [ [http://anthrobus.lviv.ua/projects.php?lang=en The Anthrobus Convention] ] . Reichblum’s productions also include the west coast premiere of Max Frisch’s "Andorra", the opera Death and the Fool, co-created with Scott Davenport Richards, Wallace Shawn’s "Summer Evening" for The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Thomas Otway’s "Venice Preserv’d", and Anouilh’s "Antigone" for the Jean Cocteau Rep [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=zVpENNx_3kwC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=%2522bill+reichblum%2522&source=web&ots=vPsCvRZ-2K&sig=mNPZYZe7oP-zCtOIM2u1LWbOg1g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA48,M1 "Aeschylus"] ] .

In 1997, at the age of 36, Reichblum was appointed Dean of Bennington College, where he served as the Professor of Drama and Dramatic Literature for seven years. Reichblum has also been a faculty member in Directing and Dramaturgy for University of California [ [http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/Archive/catalog/1995_97/Theater.html UCLA 1995-97 Course Catalog] ] , Los Angeles’ doctorate, graduate and undergraduate theatre programs.

Reichblum received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and Masters of Fine Arts degree in Directing from Columbia University. In addition to his activities in the performing arts, he authored the introduction for J.M. Coetzee’s What is Realism, field work consultant for UNESCO’s ITI-U.S., the Center for International Development’s projects in Hungary and the Netherlands, and chaired the review of the drama program at Brandeis University.

In 2004, Reichblum became the director of the private foundation, Kadmus, Inc., an incubator to develop international collaborations for new theatrical work. He currently resides in Vermont near the headquarters of KadmusArts.

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External links

* [http://kadmusarts.com/blog/?cat=8 Bill Reichblum’s Blog on Culture]
* [http://kadmusarts.com/ KadmusArts Festival Portal: Where Festival Events Live]
* [http://www.nytheatre-wire.com/MC99052T.htm KadmusArts Festival Portal]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20010108083800/www.bennington.edu/bencol2/faculty/Reichblum.html Bennington College]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD71731F934A15753C1A96E948260 Thomas Otway]
* [http://2wiki.theatercalarts.com/index.php?title=Arts_in_the_One_World CalArts School of Theatre: Arts in One World]