pics and resumes

Russell Heller

917/375-7431 - www.russheller.com - russheller@yahoo.com

 

Directing

Nov. 2000 Women and Wallace – Jonathan Marc Sherman;Northwestern University; 2000 Fall Theatre and Interpretation Center Lab Production

Advisor: Bud Beyer, Chair of Theatre Dept.

 

June 2000 Sex Lives of Superheroes – Stephen Gregg;Northwestern University; One Act Festival

 

Assistant Directing

June 2001 The Cradle Will Rock – Marc Blitzstein; Northwestern University Theatre; Mainstage Opera, Cahn Auditorium – Asst. to Rhoda Levine

May 2000 Endgame – Samuel Beckett; Northwestern University Mainstage

Assistant Director to Melanie Dreyer, and Dramaturg

Jan. 1999 Salomθ – Oscar Wilde; Northwestern University Theatre

Entity Productions – Assistant Director to Maria Ferrari, and Dramaturg

 

Directing Workshop Projects

June 2000 Sex Lives of Superheroes – Stephen Gregg: w/Les Hinderycx (NWU)

Mar. 2000 The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman: w/Craig Kinzer (NWU)

Dec. 1999 Peter Sellars: Adulte Terrible : w/Craig Kinzer (NWU)

 

Education

June 2001 Bachelor of Science in Speech, Northwestern University

Theatre Major, Musical Theatre Certificate Program

Dean’s List Honoree

Aug. 1996 National High School Institute Theatre Arts (Cherub) Program at Northwestern University

 

Related Employment

Jan.-Aug. 1997 Administration/Production Assistant at Downstairs Cabaret Theatre;Rochester,NY

 

Recent Acting Experience

Company Member of Ark Theatre Company

Mar. 2003 Little Shop of Horrors – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman

Sierra Repertory Theatre; Dir.Scott Viets

Nov. 2001 Mother Courage and her Children – Bertolt Brecht Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Dir.Eric Simonson

June 2001 The Cradle Will Rock – Marc Blitzstein

Northwestern University Opera; Dir.Rhoda Levine

Mar. 2000 Enemy of the People – Henrik Ibsen

Northwestern University Mainstage; Dir.Melissa Kievman