Leda Hoffmann, Director
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    • Indecent (CATCO)
    • Head Over Heels (CATCO)
    • The Trojan Women (University of Miami)
    • Born Yesterday (Texas Shakespeare Festival)
    • The Cat in the Hat (Northbrook Theatre)
    • The Amish Project (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center)
    • A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep)
    • Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Luminous Theatre)
    • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Milwaukee Rep)
    • Hamlet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival)
    • Black Pearl Sings (Milwaukee Rep)
    • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2018)
    • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Milwaukee Chamber Theater)
    • The Amish Project (Milwaukee Rep)
    • Student Body (Marquette University)
    • Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Max and Louie)
    • Censored on Final Approach (Renaissance Theatreworks)
    • The Chairs (Alchemist Theater)
    • Jesus Christ Superstar (Greendale Theater)
    • Romeo and Juliet (Door Shakespeare)
    • The Tempest (Door Shakespeare)
    • The Comedy of Errors (Door Shakespeare 2014)
    • Phaedra's Love (World Stage Company)
    • A Second Sam (Luminous Theatre)
    • Birth Witches (Riverside Theatre)
    • The Penelopiad (Luminous Theatre)
    • King Lear (Alchemist Theater)
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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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