Jake Witlen - United States

JAKE WITLEN (USA) is a theatre and film director based out of Brooklyn, NY. His first documentary film, Iucha, was filmed in the Ecuadorian Amazon and is set to release in early summer 2009. Theatrical directing credits include: Bingo with the Indians by Adam Rapp (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Tiny Baby by Eric Pfeffinger (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Rough for Theatre II by Beckett (Kennedy Center/Warehouse Theatre, DC); Wit (Town Hall Theatre, CA); Hollow Hallow by Eric Sanders (Brick); The Break Up by Tommy Smith (Workingman’s Clothes); Golf: The Musical (off-broadway & tour; associate director); New York Trilogy by Justin Swain (Ohio Theatre). Jake has worked on new translations of plays from Japan (Michi Yamamura), France (Alexandra Devon) and been associated with numerous touring productions from all over the world. He has served as the assistant director on Broadway, at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. For three years, Jake was the artistic/literary associate at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, where he had the pleasure of helping to develop up-and-coming voices through the “dirty works” series. There he directed readings with writers Rey Pamatmat, Sean Cunningham, Megan Mostyn-Brown and Eric Pfeffinger. In June 2009 Jake served as the video designer on Theatre Mitu’s DRC at 3-Legged Dog (NYC). For The Internationalists, Jake has directed a staged reading of You Don’t Know What Love Is (Finland) and The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony.

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