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Feb.05-20, 2010
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Xephyra: Alternative World
Feb.26-Mar.14, 2010

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10:30pm Feb.06, 13, 19

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Mar.02, 2010 @7pm
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Bonnie Cullum
Producing Artistic Director
   

Bonnie creates, directs, and produces theatre, opera, and ritual year round, and she has done so for more than 20 years. She is the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of VORTEX Repertory Company, an alternative theatre in Austin, Texas, creating and presenting more than 250 innovative productions since 1988. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas and a BA in Theatre from the University of Kansas. She has also traveled and studied extensively in England, Europe, and Turkey.

With a strong background in music, acting, and dance, as well as more than 20 years of directing experience, Cullum's specialty is bringing experimental plays, operas, and musicals to life. As a director, she has illuminated more than 50 world premieres including extraordinary epic operas, musicals, plays, and collaborative ritual theatre works. Cullum works professionally and internationally teaching theatre, acting, directing, and ritual at the University of Texas, McNeese State University, and The VORTEX, as well as workshops in Germany, Canada, and throughout the U.S.

Bonnie has been honored twice as Best Director by the Austin Chronicle and received B. Iden Payne Awards for Best Director for her productions of Moby Dick and Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio, which toured to HERE Performing Arts Complex in New York and to McNeese State University in Louisana. She has received hundreds of nominations and more than 50 awards for her productions, as well as awards for The VORTEX venue. She was recently nominated for the prestigious Primus Prize.

In 1991 she founded the Summer Youth Theatre to provide theatre opportunities for youth. Cullum is internationally recognized for her experimental productions and her advocacy of cutting-edge artists.

Representative VORTEX Directing Experience

  • Oceana
  • Troades: The Legend of the Women of Troy
  • Beirut
  • The Dragonfly Princess
  • Trickster
  • 4:48 Psychosis
  • Dark Goddess 06, 04, 02, 01, 00
  • Vampyress
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • Pythia Dust
  • Elytra (2003 & 2000)
    Austin American Statesman Top 10 Event for 2003
  • Holy Well and Sacred Flame
  • Moby Dick
    B. Iden Payne Award, Outstanding Director
  • The Music of Erica Zann
  • Roses and Thistles
  • Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio
    B. Iden Payne Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical
  • Fractured Greeks
  • The X&Y Trilogy: The Black Blood, Panoptikon, Triskelion (95-99)
    B. Iden Payne Alpha and the Omega Award
  • Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
  • Norm L.
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Pitchfork Disney
  • Faustus
  • The M.O. of M.I.
  • Wisdom of the Crone
  • The Baltimore Waltz
  • King Lear
    ACOT First Choice Award for Direction
  • Kassandra
  • The Rocky Horror Show
  • Krapp's Last Tape
  • Not I
  • The Angels are Waiting

Other Honors

  • First Night Austin 2006, Grand Procession
  • Best Shaper of New Worlds from the Austin Chronicle
  • Best Director, "Best of Austin", Austin Chronicle, 2000 & 1996
  • Austin Critic's Table, The Brave and the Bold Award
Bonnie Cullum

 

   


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