johnmichael rossi

johnmichael rossi, (DIRECTOR, PRODUCER) is the founder and artistic director of newFangled theatReR, for which he has written, directed and produced several new experimental works. His production of Mac Wellman’s Harm’s Way won a FRIGID New York Audience Choice Award. He is a founding member of Tiyatro Global, a Brooklyn based international company of researchers and practitioners. In May 2006, he took part in the Istanbul International Theatre Festival as Assistant Director for New York Ensemble Theatre's Beware of Dog. He received his MFA in Directing from CUNY Brooklyn College and holds a BA in Playwriting/Directing from Emerson College. Directing credits include: The Burial at Thebes, Sincerity Forever, The Loman Family Picnic, The CarnEvil of Lies, The Zoo Story, Assassins, Holler Song, A Murder of Crows and POPAGANDA. His play, a TACK of an American Conscience was the recipient of the 2002 Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship. Other writing credits include: the ORGASM play (produced at the Harry Warren Theater) and Operation Ajax and The Country Behind The Curtain (produced by Prospect Theater’s Dark Night Series). He has taught at CUNY Brooklyn College and various NYC public schools through The Women’s Project. He is a resident teaching artist at Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School and is currently training as a TA at Lincoln Center Institute.

Shows participated in:
Harm's Way (2007 - 08) Director