Anita Khanzadian
(director)

Los Angeles credits: Interact Theatre Company: the critically acclaimed production of Death of a Salesman, staring Eddie Jones; Marathons (Drama-Logue award, direction); The Root (Drama-Logue award, direction); Counsellor-at-Law – co-director (L.A. Drama Critics Circle and Drama-Logue awards for direction). As guest director, she has mounted productions of La Ronde, The Parallax Garden, and Waiting for the Moon to Fall at Theatre 40, Tennessee Williams’ Outcry at the Lee Strasburg Institute, and The Moths by Raf€ Arzoomanian at the Hudson Theatre. In New York, she was artistic Director of Theatre St. Clement’s, Co-Artistic Director of the American Renaissance Theatre Company and guest director at Playwrights Horizons, Ubu Repertory Theatre, Perry St. Theatre and Impossible Ragtime Theatre. Regional credits include Philadelphia Theatre Company (Fool for Love and As Is) Hyde Park Festival Theatre and the Aspen Playwrights Conference. As a recipient of U.S.I.A. Guest Artist Grants, she conducted theatre workshops and directed productions of Our Town, The Zoo Story, and All My Sons in Madras and Calcutta, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. She staged Elizabeth Perry’s one-woman play, Sun�ower, based on the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the Washington Arena Stage’s Old Vat Theatre in Washington, D.C. and more recently Stephanie Satie’s Refugees (which was performed in Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the Fringe Festival), and most recently Stephanie Satie’s Coming to America. She was the initiator and director of Interact’s Play Development Lab, and has served on the faculty of the Theatre School at California Institute of the Arts. She is married to actor Eddie Jones.

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