Stage director and specialist on Shakespeare, Daniel Fish will be in residence at CCM Opera giving a workshop on speaking Shakespeare.
Daniel Fish is a stage director based in New York City and Berlin. He began his career directing the plays of Shakespeare and Moliere and in recent years has made new work from sources as varied as Elliott Smith’s album FROM A BASEMENT ON A HILL, and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA. He has directed plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Clifford Odets, Charles L. Mee, Sarah Ruhl, David Rabe, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Sheila Callaghan. In New York City, his work has been produced by Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Juilliard School, HERE, and The Zipper, which his production of TRUE LOVE opened in 2001. He has also created work for Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Shakespeare Theater. Daniel Fish has taught directing at The Yale School of Drama, Princeton University, University of California at San Diego, and Bard College.
