Shana Laski
she/her
Director, Dramaturg, Dance/Movement Choreographer
Woman/Femme, Jewish
Additional Languages: Spanish, Hebrew
Washington DC
I am director, actor, choreographer, and dramaturg originally from Chicago but have been based in DC since 2020. I studied Theater and American Studies at Wesleyan University, with a minor in African American Studies. My passions are for new work development and reimagining classics with a contemporary lens. My mission is to create art that is in conversation with current events and engages audience on both a cognitive and visceral level.
Credits
Director
String (St. Mary's College of Maryland), Baby/Stuff (David Hinden Production), Lost Girls (Magic in Rough Spaces at Rorschach), Play in a Day (Rorschach/Imagination Stage), The Complications of a Binary System (Actors Center), Grief Containers (Spooky Action)
Assistant Director
A Room in the Castle (Cincinnati Shakespeare Theater, Folger Theater), Data (Arena Stage), Dua: A Monster's Tale (Theater Prometheus), This Much I Know (Theater J), A Winter's Tale (Folger Theater), Scorched (Expats Theater), Jennifer Who Is Leaving (Round House Theater), The Tempest (Round House Theater, Folger Theater), Birds of North America (Mosaic Theater)
Production Dramaturg
Silent Sky (Perisphere Theater), A Room In the Castle (Cincinnati Shakespeare Theater, Folger Theater), Junk (Silver Spring Stage), Radio Golf (Round House Theater),
Assistant Dramaturg
On the Far End (Round House Theater), The Tempest (Round House Theater), The Niceties (Writers Theater), A Doll's House (Writers Theater), Stick Fly (Writers Theater), The Last Match (Writers Theater), Dishwasher Dreams (Writers Theater), Wife of a Salesman (Writers Theater)
New Work Dramaturg
Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom (Jewish Play Project), A Play About a Baby Carrot (Jewish Play Project), Jennifer Who Is Leaving (National Capital New Play Festival at Round House), limp wrist on the lever (National Capital New Play Festival at Round House), Bad Books (National Capital New Play Festival at Round House), Even When the World Burns I am Still With You (Magic In Rough Spaces at Rorschach)
Choreographer
The Pliant Girls (Theater Prometheus), Dua: A Monster's Tale (Theater Prometheus)
The Pliant Girls, Sarah Straub, Theatre Prometheus