David Kennedy
Nora by Ingmar Bergman, Directed by David Kennedy, featured in CHANCE MAGAZINE
Education
Master of Fine Arts in Directing | Yale School of Drama | 2000
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre | Dalhousie University | 1993
Major Career Achievements
Professor of Drama | University of Alberta | 2023-Present
Associate Professor of Drama | University of Alberta | 2019-2023
Assistant Professor of Drama | University of Alberta | 2013-2019
Associate Artistic Director | Westport Playhouse | Westport, CT | 2009-2023
Acting Artistic Director | Dallas Theater Center | Dallas, TX | 2007-2008
Associate Director | Dallas Theater Center | Dallas, TX | 2004-2007
Founding Artistic Director | The Lunar Society | Toronto, ON | 2003-2005
Artistic Director | Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts | New Haven, CT | 1998
Founding Artistic Director | Milkman Theatre Group | Halifax, NS | 1992-1999
Select Freelance Director Credits: Hartford TheaterWorks | The Wilma Theater | Clarence Brown Theatre Company | Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | University of Rochester International Theatre Program | Asolo Repertory Theatre Conservatory | Ship's Company Theatre
Recent Directing Credits
The Devils by John Whiting | U of A Studio Theatre | 2023
Arcana by Vern Thiessen (new play workshop) | People’s Light | Malvern, PA | 2022
4000 Miles by Amy Herzog | Westport Playhouse | 2022
Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley | Westport Playhouse | 2021
Don Juan by Molière, in a world-premiere translation and adaptation by Brendan Pelsue | Westport Playhouse | 2019
The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck | Westport Playhouse | 2018
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar | Hartford TheaterWorks | Hartford, CT | 2018
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, freely adapted by David Kennedy | U of A Studio Theatre | 2018
Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Westport Playhouse | 2017
The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar | Westport Playhouse | 2016
Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, translated by Don Taylor | U of A Studio Theatre | 2015
And a Nightingale Sang by C.P. Taylor | Westport Playhouse | 2015
A Dream Play by August Strindberg, adapted by Caryl Churchill | U of A Studio Theatre | 2015
Nora by Ingmar Bergman (adapted from Ibsen's A Doll House) | Westport Playhouse | 2014
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard | The Wilma Theater | Philadelphia, PA | 2014
Teaching Awards
Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | University of Alberta | 2019
Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award | University of Alberta | 2018
Professional Awards
Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director | 2017
Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Production | 2017
Fellowships
Phil Killian Fellowship | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Ashland, OR | 2004
Directing Fellowship | The Drama League | New York, NY |1995
Publications
CHANCE | Theodoros Terzopoulos' Antigone | Spring 2017
CHANCE | "Document: Dane Laffrey/The Maids," an interview with the cast of Red Bull Theatre's Production of The Maids by Jean Genet | Spring 2014
Professional Affiliations:
Member | Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (the U.S. union for professional directors)
Member | Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre