This is Heidi.
Heidi Handelsman is a New York-based freelance theatre director, specializing in new work and playwright collaboration.
She endeavors to make theatre that blurs the lines between:
real/imaginary
sad/funny
unlikely/impossible
history/legend
Heidi recently directed Caroline V. McGraw's Minotaur Scavenger Hunt at the F*It Club's Spring Fling and Mariah MacCarthy's The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret with Purple Rep. She has directed numerous short plays in the Samuel French Festival and the Estrogenius Festival, and with Youngblood/EST. She has developed new work with New Georges, Ma-Yi Theater Company, the Woodshed Collective, the Tank, New York Theatre Experiment, FringeNYC, and the NYU/Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing. She was awarded an SDCF Obervership with John Rando on The Toxic Avenger. Heidi is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a former Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Heidi hosts and curates the Potluck (a play-reading series).
Presently, Heidi is pursuing her MFA in Directing at Brown University.
Sometimes, Heidi is also a biblical scholar, a science nerd, a home chef and gardener, a queer rights activist, an animal lover, a cynic, and a believer.
She endeavors to make theatre that blurs the lines between:
real/imaginary
sad/funny
unlikely/impossible
history/legend
Heidi recently directed Caroline V. McGraw's Minotaur Scavenger Hunt at the F*It Club's Spring Fling and Mariah MacCarthy's The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret with Purple Rep. She has directed numerous short plays in the Samuel French Festival and the Estrogenius Festival, and with Youngblood/EST. She has developed new work with New Georges, Ma-Yi Theater Company, the Woodshed Collective, the Tank, New York Theatre Experiment, FringeNYC, and the NYU/Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing. She was awarded an SDCF Obervership with John Rando on The Toxic Avenger. Heidi is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a former Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Heidi hosts and curates the Potluck (a play-reading series).
Presently, Heidi is pursuing her MFA in Directing at Brown University.
Sometimes, Heidi is also a biblical scholar, a science nerd, a home chef and gardener, a queer rights activist, an animal lover, a cynic, and a believer.
