Gisela Cardenas
Gisela Cardenas is a Peruvian born director living in NYC who has trained theater professionals and directed in the UK, Sao Paulo, Germany, Peru, Uk, Romania, The Netherlands, Norway and USA. In New York City she has directed plays and musicals in Off and Off-Off Broadway. Awards and Memberships: Princes Grace Theater Fellowship (2007), 2008 Phil Killian Directing Fellow (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), 2008-10 Women's Project Director's Lab, recipient of the 2008 Josephine Abady Award (League of Professional Theatre Women), recipient of the TCG/ NEA 2009/2011 Career Development Program for Directors and member of the Society Directors and Choreographers Foundation.
She has an MA in performance studies (New York University) and an MFA in directing (Columbia University). Past credits: Shakespeare's Macbeth (Riverside Church Theater), Garcia Lorca's Don Perlimplin (Repertorio Español); Aeschylus Agamemnon (Drama Desk Nomination 2006/Directing); Antigone adapted by Jose Watanabe (Sibiu International Theater Festival, Romania), New York Revival of Kander & Ebb's Kiss of The Spider Woman (Vortex Theater Company); HotInk Festival 2008-2009; Part 1 of An Oresteia (Classic Stage Company), Euripides' Medeain Lima, Peru (2010), Brecht's In The Jungle of The Cities, Richard III in Norway, Sir Arnold Wesler's The Kitchen, Richard III for the Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble, a version of Elektra/Orestes and Oedipus, El Rey for ACT in Seattle, Fassbinder Katzelmaher. Upcoming: Peter Asmussen's Nobody Meets Anybody in Sao Paulo, Ibsen's The Enemy of the People. Currently Gisela is developing two devised theater plays with Playwright David Koteles about organ transplantation and a second devised play based on Bizet's Opera, Carmen.