New York, NY - Five theatre directors are slated for the fifth Sundance Institute | LUMA Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat , which convenes in Arles, France, August 25 through September 7. The Retreat is one of 24 residencies and Labs the Institute hosts annually across the world, and is an integral part of the Theatre Program's ongoing engagement with global theatremakers.
The retreat, the only director-centered residency of its kind, comprises 14 days of rigorous creative interchange. Theatre Program Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma curate this rare opportunity for a convening of established artists who build new work from both text and in an ensemble or choreographic model. Time in Arles is comprised of reflective working sessions, conversations among the participants, and engagement with the Rencontres d'Arles (one of the world's most vital photography festivals) as well as the historic Camargue region.
Himberg said, Our collaboration with the LUMA Foundation is unique in the field, in that it directly addresses the need for independent directors to converge and interact with one another, in an idyllic environment that's been a cultural capital since the days of the Roman Empire. These directors' diverse experience and backgrounds drive conversations throughout the Retreat, which often lead to discovery and sometimes to collaborative opportunities for these extraordinary individuals.
Directors selected for the 2017 Sundance Institute | LUMA Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat are:
JoAnne Akalaitis
JoAnne Akalaitis is an American theatre director and writer. She won five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and founded the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York City, from which she resigned after 20 years. In addition to the American Repertory Theater - where she has directed Endgame, The Balcony (by Jean Genet) and The Birthday Party (by Harold Pinter) - she has staged works by Euripides, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Schiller, Tennessee Williams, Philip Glass, Jan ek, and her own work at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City Opera, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Court Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the Guthrie Theater. She is the former artistic director of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards and honors.
Daniel Aukin
Daniel Aukin's recent work includes Abe Koogler's Fulfillment Center (MTC), the acclaimed Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's Fool For Love (MTC), Dan LeFranc's Rancho Viejo (Playwrights' Horizons), The Fortress of Solitude (Dallas Theater Center & The Public Theatre), Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews (Roundabout), Melissa James Gibson's What Rhymes with America (The Atlantic), Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theatre), Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge (Arena Stage) and Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine (La Jolla Playhouse). As Artistic Director of Soho Rep (1998-2006) premieres of new work include Mark Schultz's Everything Will Be Different, Melissa James Gibsons Suitcase and [sic], Mac Wellman's Cat's-paw, Quincy Long's The Year Of The Baby and Maria Irene Fornes' Molly's Dream.
Ali Chahrour
Ali Chahrour is a choreographer, dancer and graduate of the theatre department at The Lebanese University. Influenced by techniques from several European countries, he studies contemporary dance in the Arab world and movement that is related to society's memory and its local circumstances that contribute to creating an identity for a local contemporary dance, whose techniques and problematics are inspired by its surroundings and history. His work examines the relationship between dancing and the body, and the religion and the sacred, relying on the Islamic and Shiite religious rituals and practices especially in his recent trilogy: Fatmeh, Leila's Death and May he Rise and smell the fragrance.
Diane Rodriguez
Diane Rodriguez is a director, playwright and Obie Award-winning actor. She wrote, directed and premiered two of her own full length works, Living Large 2012 at Teatro Luna in Chicago and The Sweetheart Deal 2017 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She is developing and directing a Center Theatre Group commission, Venice Is Dead by Roger G. Smith and Richard Montoya having just spent two weeks at Ojai Playwrights Conference earlier this summer. She will direct Culture Clash in Bordertown Now in 2018 at The Pasadena Playhouse.
Seret Scott
Seret Scott directs new plays, classics, and experimental / developmental work in Off-Broadway and regional theatres around the country. As an author, her play Second Line relates her experiences in activist theater during the Civil Rights Movement, and was produced by NJ's Passage Theatre and DC's Atlas Theatre. Seret is the creator of Insight / Second Sight, a project that introduces diverse communities to the events, narratives, back stories and life-changing moments of individuals whose lives have been widely acclaimed, or perhaps, quietly extraordinary.
The Sundance Institute Theatre Program is supported by an endowment from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with generous additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Time Warner Foundation; Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Perry and Martin Granoff; National Endowment for the Arts; LUMA Foundation; The Shubert Foundation, Inc.; Wendy vanden Heuvel; John and Marcia Price Family Foundation; and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
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New York, NY - Five theatre directors are slated for the fifth Sundance Institute | LUMA Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat , which convenes in Arles, France, August 25 through September 7. The Retreat is one of 24 residencies and Labs the Institute hosts annually across the world, and is an integral part of the Theatre Program's ongoing engagement with global theatremakers. 
