REBECCA
TAICHMAN
REBECCA TAICHMAN won a TONY Award for Best Director of a Play in 2017 for her direction of INDECENT by Paula Vogel.
Rebecca’s directorial repertoire spans across a wide range of theatrical genres. She directs new plays, classics, musicals, and opera. Currently, she is immersed in the development of many exciting new musical theater projects.
Rebecca has collaborated and continues to work with wonderful writers such as David Adjmi, Ella Hickson, Lynn Nottage, Lupe Fiasco, Sanaz Toosi, Steven Levenson, Jocelyn Bioh, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Guirira, Enda Walsh, Brian Selznick, Kirsten Greenidge, Nico Muhly, Rick Elice, Jason Katims,Marcy Heisler, Tom Kitt, and Danai Gurira. Rebecca’s has worked at The Roundabout, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, Soho Rep, NYTW, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe, ART, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter, and Woolly Mammoth, among others.
Rebecca is a resident director at Ambassador Theater Group (ATG) as well as at The Roundabout Theater in NYC, a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute, and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
“With spectacular dexterity,… seven actors share 42 roles. … [Indecent is] a Rebecca Taichman production full of visual coups.”
– THE GUARDIAN, LONDON
Rebecca Taichman
AWARDS
2017 TONY Award Best Direction
Obie Award
Outer Critics Circle Award
Indecent by Paula Vogel
2006 Helen Hayes Award
for Outstanding Resident Play
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
Woolly Mammoth Theater
2003 Barrymore Award
for Outstanding Direction Musical/World Premiere
The Green Violin by Elisa Thoron
with music by Frank London.
The Prince Music Theatre
INSTRUCTOR
NYU, The O’Neill National Theater Institute, MIT, Yale University and the University of Maryland.
TRAINING/AFFLIATIONS
Henry Crown Fellow, TCG New Generations Grant Recipient with Woolly Mammoth, Drama League Directing Fellowship.
Yale School of Drama graduate.
NEW YORK
Broadway: Indecent by Paula Vogel (TONY AWARD 2017 Best Direction, Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction); The Roundabout: Time and The Conways by JB Priestley.
Off-Broadway: MCC: School Girls or The Mean African Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh; Playwrights Horizons: This Flat Earth by Lindsey Ferrentino; Lincoln Center: How To Transcend A Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl; Playwright’s Horizons: Familiar by Danai Guirira; Yale/LaJolla/The Vineyard: Indecent by Paula Vogel; Lincoln Center: The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl; Playwright’s Horizons: Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl; Gotham Chamber Opera: Rappaccini’s Daughter; LCT3: Luck of the Irish by Kirsten Greenidge; Playwrights’ Horizons: Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge; Classic Stage Company: Orlando by Sarah Ruhl; Music Theater Group/Gotham Chamber Opera at John Jay: Dark Sisters music by Nico Muhly libretto by Stephen Karam (world premiere); New York City Opera: Orpheus by Telemann; Second Stage: The Scene by Theresa Rebeck; The Ohio Theatre: Menopausal Gentleman (Special Citation Obie Award/world premiere).
REGIONAL
Old Globe: Twelfth Night; Yale Rep Theater (YRT) & LaJolla: Indecent by Paula Vogel; YRT, ART & Old Globe: Time and the Conways by JB Priestley; Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi (world premiere); La Jolla Playhouse: Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Milk Like Sugar (world premiere); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: She Loves Me; Shakespeare Theater Company: Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew; McCarter Theatre: Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night; Sleeping Beauty Wakes book by Rachel Sheinken, music and lyrics by Groove Lilly; ACT: At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee; Woolly Mammoth: Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl (world premiere), The Velvet Sky by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (world premiere), The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl (2006 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play); Yale Repertory: The Evildoers by David Adjmi (world premiere), Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides; The Huntington: Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck (world premiere); The Humana Festival: The Scene by Theresa Rebeck (world premiere); Round House Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank adapted by Wendy Kesselman (winner of three Helen Hayes awards), A Body of Water by Lee Blessing; The Prince Music Theatre: The Green Violin by Elise Thoron with music by Frank London (2003 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical/world premiere); The Market Theater: Swimming in March by Kate Robin (world premiere).
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Indecent
“Indecent” is more than a play about forbidden love: It’s about theater as a life force.” - New York Post Indecent by Paula Vogel Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman TONY AWARD 2017 Best DirectorObie Award 2017Outer Critics Circle 2017, Outstanding...
Sing Street
"[Sing Street] packs such a visceral punch in making its case that by the end it's got you believing it, too. - The Boston Globe Sing Street By Enda Walsh Music and lyrics byGary Clark and John Carney Directed by Rebecca Taichman Choreography by Sonya Tayeh The...
Winter’s Tale
“Ms. Taichman’s direction is so assured and the staging so savvy that everything comes together.” - NEW YORK TIMES Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare Directed by Rebecca Taichman Co-Production of The Shakespeare Theatre CompanyWashington, DC McCarter...
School Girls
“Under the firm direction of Tony-winning director Rebecca Taichman, the play is full of light and laughter...” - Variety School Girls by Jocelyn Bioh Directed by Rebecca Taichman MCC Theater | World PremiereNovember 2017 Mark Taper Forum2018 SET DESIGN: Arnulfo...
12th Night | StC & MCC
“Gloom and misery, begone! Love and its shenanigans are in bloom.” - New York Post Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Directed by Rebecca Taichman Helen Hayes Nominee: Best Direction. Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Resident Play Co-Production The Shakespeare...
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette Creative Team Director: Rebecca Taichman Playwright: David Adjmi Soho Rep | New York City Yale Rep & ART Co-production Photography by T. Charles Erikson (Yale & ART) and Pavel Antonov (SoHo Rep) DESIGNERS: SETS: Riccardo Hernandez...
Indecent
“Indecent” is more than a play about forbidden love: It’s about theater as a life force.” - New York Post Indecent by Paula Vogel Created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman TONY AWARD 2017 Best DirectorObie Award 2017Outer Critics Circle 2017, Outstanding...
Sing Street
"[Sing Street] packs such a visceral punch in making its case that by the end it's got you believing it, too. - The Boston Globe Sing Street By Enda Walsh Music and lyrics byGary Clark and John Carney Directed by Rebecca Taichman Choreography by Sonya Tayeh The...
Winter’s Tale
“Ms. Taichman’s direction is so assured and the staging so savvy that everything comes together.” - NEW YORK TIMES Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare Directed by Rebecca Taichman Co-Production of The Shakespeare Theatre CompanyWashington, DC McCarter...
School Girls
“Under the firm direction of Tony-winning director Rebecca Taichman, the play is full of light and laughter...” - Variety School Girls by Jocelyn Bioh Directed by Rebecca Taichman MCC Theater | World PremiereNovember 2017 Mark Taper Forum2018 SET DESIGN: Arnulfo...