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 the world premiere of Kate Marks' Bird House, a coming-of-age fairy tale about two women who should have already come of age, at Theatre 3, and a new production of Cindy Lou Johnson's Brilliant Traces at TheaterLab. Other credits include Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (NY Fringe and Fringe Encore Series), Janey Miller's World Tour (Manhattan Theatre Source), and Flyers and Other Tales (Midtown Theatre Festival). 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, and elsewhere. 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 an in-residence director at NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing. Heidi hosts and curates the Potluck (a play-reading series) from her living room.
Sometimes, Heidi is also a 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 the world premiere of Kate Marks' Bird House, a coming-of-age fairy tale about two women who should have already come of age, at Theatre 3, and a new production of Cindy Lou Johnson's Brilliant Traces at TheaterLab. Other credits include Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (NY Fringe and Fringe Encore Series), Janey Miller's World Tour (Manhattan Theatre Source), and Flyers and Other Tales (Midtown Theatre Festival). 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, and elsewhere. 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 an in-residence director at NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing. Heidi hosts and curates the Potluck (a play-reading series) from her living room.
Sometimes, Heidi is also a a biblical scholar, a science nerd, a home chef and gardener, a queer rights activist, an animal lover, a cynic, and a believer.