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Ron Bashford has directed over 50 professional theater productions and multimedia projects for a variety of regional non-profit theaters and companies, ranging from Shakespeare and Steve Martin to collaborations with contemporary composers and choreographers. He has done a considerable body of work for Asheville’s North Carolina Stage Company, and for the New York based, new music ensemble, Sequitur. Work in 2010 includes Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Independent Shakespeare Co., Los Angeles); Joe Orton's What The Butler Saw and Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man't Cell Phone (NC Stage); and Sheila Callghan's Fever/Dream (Warren Wilson Theatre). He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, where he conducted an experimental workshop of Macbeth in 2008. A year earlier he directed a National Endowment for The Arts Shakespeare-in-American-Communities touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Western North Carolina. In 2001 and 2003, he served Off-Broadway as assistant director to British director Michael Bogdanov on the development of a new musical, Lone Star Love (Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critic's Circle Award nominations). As a featured panelist with Patsy Rodenberg of Britain’s Royal National Theatre, and Stephen Greenblatt, editor of the Norton Shakespeare, he created Hamlet Trio for Southwestern University's Brown Symposium: Shakespeares!! in 2001. Production awards include The Mountain Express Reader's Choice Awards for Best Productions for Hamlet and for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (NC Stage), and the Knoxville Area Theatre Coalition Awards for Best Production and Best Director of a Musical for The Secret Garden (Clarence Brown Theatre Company). Among other projects for Sequitur, he has directed Ernst Toller: Requiem for an Idea (Joyce Soho); David Lang’s Music for Gracious Living; Sam Shepard’s Tongues (Merkin Hall); and Money: A Cabaret (Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre). He has taught acting, directing, play analysis, and vocal development and the craft of speaking at Southwestern University and Warren Wilson College. He currently teaches at Amherst College. He holds a B.A. in Music from Amherst College and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program.
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