Elfin Frederick Vogel

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Education

B.A., Theatre and Music, Empire State College (SUNY), 1983

Directing, acting, at HB Studios, The Actors Institute, and Richard Morse Mime Studio

Graduate of the National Arts Consortium Theatre Design and Management Training Program (1981)

Musik Akademie, Basel, Switzerland, Performers Program (violin major; guitar minor)

Grants

National Institute for Music Theatre - Grant to study the directing of musicals

Teacher/Lecturer

"Pirandello and His Theatre": an intensive six-week seminar as artist-in-residence at Rhodes College, Memphis

Guest lecturer at the University of Memphis Theatre Program, Rhodes College,

Christian Brother's University. Topics include: "The Role of Authority in

Pirandello's biography and dramatic work"; "Translation" in Shakespeare's A

Midsummer Night's Dream"; "Virginity, Stigma and the Sexual Politics of

Othello"; "Love and Gender in As You Like It", and "On Directing Shakespeare"

Conducts masterclasses in Acting and Performance for Singers in New York City

Writer Translator

Dewpoint, an original screenplay, co-written with Vincent Sessa

Othello, a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's play, co-written with Enrico Nocivelli

Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler, translated from the German for the production at Circle in the Square

A Certain Plume by Henri Micheaux, translation from the French and stage adaptation

The New Colony by Luigi Pirandello, translation from the Italian with Frances Keene

Evening Hour in the Late Fall by Friedrich Durrenmat, translation from the German

A Valentine's Day Celebration, conceived and written with Hillary Rollins

Set/Lighting Design

Lighting: Tiny Tim's Christmas Carol by Rick Cummins, Riverside Church

Set & Lights: A Midsummer Night's Dream, River City Shakespeare Festival Still Love, Neighborhood Group Theatre

Lighting: Moral and Political Lessons on "Wyoming", Third Step Theatre Co.

Set: Three Sisters, Chelsea Group Theatre Company, Greenwich Street Theatre

Set: All's Well That Ends Well, Chelsea Group Theatre Company

Lighting: Fisher Price and Western Publishing, Toy Fair (1992-93)

Set: The Cherry Orchard, Ohio Theatre

Set: Rebel Women, by Thomas Babe, Windsor Repertory Theatre at the Ohio Theatre