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Welcome to the official website of Stephen Kaliski, Artistic Director of New York's Adjusted Realists and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre and Writing Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina.
Stephen grew up in Charlotte, NC and studied English and theatre at Davidson. He was recently the resident director of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway, directed by Jack O'Brien. Directing credits include The Refugees, The Beyoncé (A.R.T./NY), Gluten! (59E59), Dead Shot Mary (The Bridge), Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo/East Village Revival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Yale Dramatic Association), Vinegar Tom (Manhattanville College), The Minervae (On the Square; Backstage “Critic’s Pick”), This (Proprietors Theatre Company) Cardenio, The Violet Hour and The Dumb Waiter (Brooklyn College), West Lethargy (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, New York Fringe), and His Minute Hand (Hollywood Fringe, 45 Bleecker). Playwriting credits include West Lethargy, which was published in Plays and Playwrights 2011 (ed. Martin Denton), His Minute Hand, Any May Now, The Briefly Dead, and The Refugees. He has worked with such directors as Austin Pendleton (Three Sisters, Assistant Director) and Michael Grandage (Evita on Broadway, SDC Traube Fellow) as well as with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Classic Stage Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Stephen received his M.F.A. in directing from Brooklyn College and has taught acting, directing, public speaking, and master classes on leadership and joy at Brooklyn College, LIU Post, NYU, Fordham, Yale, The Professional Performing Arts School, Talent Unlimited High School, and BMCC. He lives in Davidson, NC with his wife, Katie, and their son, Elliot.
Welcome to the official website of Stephen Kaliski, Artistic Director of New York's Adjusted Realists and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre and Writing Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina.
Stephen grew up in Charlotte, NC and studied English and theatre at Davidson. He was recently the resident director of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway, directed by Jack O'Brien. Directing credits include The Refugees, The Beyoncé (A.R.T./NY), Gluten! (59E59), Dead Shot Mary (The Bridge), Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo/East Village Revival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Yale Dramatic Association), Vinegar Tom (Manhattanville College), The Minervae (On the Square; Backstage “Critic’s Pick”), This (Proprietors Theatre Company) Cardenio, The Violet Hour and The Dumb Waiter (Brooklyn College), West Lethargy (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, New York Fringe), and His Minute Hand (Hollywood Fringe, 45 Bleecker). Playwriting credits include West Lethargy, which was published in Plays and Playwrights 2011 (ed. Martin Denton), His Minute Hand, Any May Now, The Briefly Dead, and The Refugees. He has worked with such directors as Austin Pendleton (Three Sisters, Assistant Director) and Michael Grandage (Evita on Broadway, SDC Traube Fellow) as well as with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Classic Stage Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Stephen received his M.F.A. in directing from Brooklyn College and has taught acting, directing, public speaking, and master classes on leadership and joy at Brooklyn College, LIU Post, NYU, Fordham, Yale, The Professional Performing Arts School, Talent Unlimited High School, and BMCC. He lives in Davidson, NC with his wife, Katie, and their son, Elliot.