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The Drama League Announces 2012 Directors Project Fellows

The Drama League has announced the stage directors who have been selected as the 2012 Fellows of The Drama League Directors Project.

The eleven recipients, who will spend the next year as part of the program, are Knud Adams, Amy Claussen, Vesselin Dimov, Shana Gozansky, Jess Jung, Swaine Kaui, Jesse Jou, David Mendizábal, Cat Miller, Patrick Walsh, and Christopher Windom.

Adams, Mendizábal, Miller, and Windom will participate in the New York Fall Directing Program. Claussen, Gozansky, Jung, and Walsh will take part in the Hangar Summer Residency Program at the Hangar Theater, in Ithaca. Kaui is accepted into the two-month Musical Directing Program at Barrington Stage Company under the leadership of William Finn. Jou will have a four-month residency at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts as part of the Classical Fellowship for Directors of Color. Dimov will participate in the U.S./Bulgaria Stage Directors Exchange, bringing the Bulgarian director to New York City in partnership with New York Theatre Workshop.

The Directors Project’s Class of 2012 will begin on May 15.

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