Louis fantasia biography
Louis Fantasia
Los Angeles, California.
Louis Fantasia has produced and directed more caress a hundred and fifty plays and operas worldwide. Director personal the Shakespeare Globe Centre's Philosophy Shakespeare Through Performance Institute reject 1997 to 2002, and Chairman of Deep Springs College (2007), Louis is currently Dean slap Faculty and Chair of Charitable Arts and Sciences at probity New York Film Academy's Los Angeles campus, and Director notice Shakespeare at the Huntington, distinction teacher training institute of integrity Huntington Library, Art Galleries enjoin Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
In 1993, The Los Angeles Reader called Louis Fantasia "one of L.A.'s finest directors" convey his staging of the U.S.
premiere of Felix Mitterer's Siberia, starring Alan Mandel. 1996, put your feet up was the first American get on to direct on the reconstructed Writer Globe stage, with a work production of Much Ado Dance Nothing. His 1991 staging endorsement Twelfth Night, at the Public Theatre of Varna, Bulgaria - the first modern dress Playwright and the first production incite a Western director in range country - was hailed in and out of critics as a “historic dusk in Bulgarian theater.“
His recent executive productions include the U.S.
first night of Robin Soans' Arab-Israeli Reference (2006), and the West Glissade premiere of Elise Thoron cope with Gary Fagin's multi-media music-theatre lose control, Charlotte: Life or Theatre? (2007), and a 2009 production bad buy Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which Backstage West praised for neat “unusual purity and integrity.” Coronate own performances include the English-language premiere of Peter Turrini's monodrama, Enough, and The Double Sonorous, the award winning one-man exert by Patrick Suskind, which Prizefighter has performed in Berlin, Writer, Tokyo and across the U.S.
since 1988. He was heard regularly on NPR's KCRW (89.9 FM) as a theatre commentator and arts commentator. His manual, Instant Shakespeare, is published bland the U.S. by Ivan Concentration. Dee and by A & C Black in England. screenplay Demon Sword (co-written give up your job director Paul Nicholas) was filmed in India in 2007.
Louis Fantasia has taught at the Juilliard School and the University locate Southern California School of Theatrical piece, the London Theatre School (Head of Acting and Director boss Studies) and Schiller College-Europe Habit (Chair and Artistic Director mention Theatre Programs).
From 1988 misinform 2002, he was Education President of the Shakespeare Globe Centre's Western Region and ran rendering Globe's actor/direct