Matt Cowart on board to direct CAMP WANATACHI
The CAMP WANATACHI team is very excited to have Matt Cowart joining us as director of the upcoming production. So many hot new developments for CAMP!
A little more about Matt:
Matt Cowart is currently producing Sondheim: the birthday concert, a celebration of the works of Stephen Sondheim at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic. Recently, he co-directed All Fall Down at the 45th Street Theater, an official selection of the New York Musical Theater Festival. Credits include: Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Rock Musical [UNCSA], Broadway: Three Generations [Kennedy Center, Co-directed with Lonny Price], Camelot with the New York Philharmonic starring Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Lloyd and Fran Drescher, which was broadcast on PBS, Live from Lincoln Center [Associate Director]; My Favorite Things, a Rodgers and Hammerstein revue starring Shirley Jones [Associate Director]; Beautiful Girls, starring Zoe Caldwell, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Donna McKechnie, and Jenn Colella [Associate Director]; the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade starring Audra McDonald [Assistant Director]; Kiki Baby [Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference].
This summer, he co-wrote and co-directed the original children’s musical, Dream Machines, with collaborator Isaac Klein and composers Joshua Morgan and James Stewart. The show is currently on tour with the Open Dream Ensemble. Matt is the Co-Artistic Director of MUDasMAN productions, which he founded with Mr. Klein. Matt has served as Associate Artistic Director of the 78th Street Theatre Lab, and as an Associate Producer for PREMIERES. He was a 2004/2005 Kenan Directing Fellow at the Lincoln Center Institute, is an alumnus of the 2005 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a member of the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers. Matt graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with his degree in directing. He is currently working on a new hip-hop musical with Isaac Klein and James Stewart.
Posted March 9, 2010
