Leda Hoffmann, Director
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  • Directing
    • New Plays
    • Contemporary Plays >
      • Indecent (The Contemporary)
      • Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play (The Contemporary)
      • The Cat in the Hat (Northbrook Theatre)
      • Born Yesterday (Texas Shakespeare Festival)
      • The Amish Project (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center)
      • A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Luminous Theatre)
      • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Milwaukee Chamber Theater)
      • Censored on Final Approach (Renaissance Theatreworks)
      • The Amish Project (Milwaukee Rep)
      • A Second Sam (Luminous Theatre)
      • Phaedra's Love (World Stage Company)
      • The Chairs (Alchemist Theater)
      • Birth Witches (Riverside Theatre)
      • The Penelopiad (Luminous Theatre)
    • Musicals >
      • 9 to 5, the Musical (The Contemporary)
      • Head Over Heels (The Contemporary)
      • Black Pearl Sings (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Max and Louie)
      • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Jesus Christ Superstar (Greendale Theater)
    • Classical Plays >
      • As You Like It (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2018)
      • Hamlet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival)
      • Romeo and Juliet (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Tempest (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2014)
      • King Lear (Alchemist Theater)
    • Academic Productions >
      • Blood Wedding (Ohio State)
      • The Trojan Women (University of Miami)
      • Student Body (Marquette University)
    • Short Plays >
      • Alone World
      • L.A. 8AM
      • The Latest News from the Primordial Ooze
      • Hamlet in Hiding
      • Airborne
      • Every Show You've Ever Seen
      • The Ultimate Battle for Total Control of the Entire Universe
      • Parachute Silk
      • Night
      • Express Yourself
    • Assistant Directing >
      • Glass Menagerie (dir. Aaron Posner)
      • Death of a Salesman (dir. Mark Clements)
      • The 39 Steps (dir. J.R. Sullivan)
      • A Christmas Carol (dir. Joseph Hanreddy)
      • My Name is Asher Lev (dir. Aaron Posner)
      • Breakdancing Shakespeare: Macbeth (dir. Nina Pinchin)
      • Beckett's Last One Acts (dir. Ellen Mease)
  • Other
    • Producing/Artistic Leadership
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Coursework

My coursework at Grinnell College in Theatre and in History informs my productions.

Theatre Coursework

Studies in Drama I: Shakespeare Seminar
Dramatic Literature II (1800-present)
Dramatic Literature I (Greeks-1800)
British Theatre in Performance (study abroad in London)

Directing

Period Acting Styles
Intermediate Acting
Fundamentals of Acting
Traditional Chinese Theatre
Movement for the Performer

Stage Management
Intro to Technical Theatre

History Coursework

Mentored Advanced Project: 1968 Iowa Students

American History II (Reconstruction-present)
U.S. Immigration History
Independent Study: Guest Workers and Immigration in the U.S.

European Urban History
Holocaust: Interpretation and Memory
History of London (study abroad in London)

History of Ancient Greece
Europe in Renaissance and Reformation

History Proseminar

Writing Samples

The Loss of Children: Mothers in Ghosts, Riders to the Sea, and Mother Courage
Final Paper in Dramatic Literature II

Nature's Renewal: City and Country in Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances
Final Paper in Studies in Drama I: Shakespeare Seminar
Women of Troy Director's Note
Director's Note for Women of Troy

Self-Governance in 1960s Grinnell
Final Paper for a History Mentored Advanced Project
The presentation can be seen here.
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  • Home
  • Directing
    • New Plays
    • Contemporary Plays >
      • Indecent (The Contemporary)
      • Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play (The Contemporary)
      • The Cat in the Hat (Northbrook Theatre)
      • Born Yesterday (Texas Shakespeare Festival)
      • The Amish Project (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center)
      • A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Luminous Theatre)
      • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Milwaukee Chamber Theater)
      • Censored on Final Approach (Renaissance Theatreworks)
      • The Amish Project (Milwaukee Rep)
      • A Second Sam (Luminous Theatre)
      • Phaedra's Love (World Stage Company)
      • The Chairs (Alchemist Theater)
      • Birth Witches (Riverside Theatre)
      • The Penelopiad (Luminous Theatre)
    • Musicals >
      • 9 to 5, the Musical (The Contemporary)
      • Head Over Heels (The Contemporary)
      • Black Pearl Sings (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Max and Louie)
      • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Milwaukee Rep)
      • Jesus Christ Superstar (Greendale Theater)
    • Classical Plays >
      • As You Like It (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2018)
      • Hamlet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival)
      • Romeo and Juliet (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Tempest (Door Shakespeare)
      • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2014)
      • King Lear (Alchemist Theater)
    • Academic Productions >
      • Blood Wedding (Ohio State)
      • The Trojan Women (University of Miami)
      • Student Body (Marquette University)
    • Short Plays >
      • Alone World
      • L.A. 8AM
      • The Latest News from the Primordial Ooze
      • Hamlet in Hiding
      • Airborne
      • Every Show You've Ever Seen
      • The Ultimate Battle for Total Control of the Entire Universe
      • Parachute Silk
      • Night
      • Express Yourself
    • Assistant Directing >
      • Glass Menagerie (dir. Aaron Posner)
      • Death of a Salesman (dir. Mark Clements)
      • The 39 Steps (dir. J.R. Sullivan)
      • A Christmas Carol (dir. Joseph Hanreddy)
      • My Name is Asher Lev (dir. Aaron Posner)
      • Breakdancing Shakespeare: Macbeth (dir. Nina Pinchin)
      • Beckett's Last One Acts (dir. Ellen Mease)
  • Other
    • Producing/Artistic Leadership
  • Resume
  • About