The Drama League has announced the 30 stage directors receiving their 2025 fellowships, assistantships, residencies, and programs collectively known as The Directors Project.
Selected from over 1,100 applicants worldwide, the recipients are Catalina Beltr谩n, Fran de Leon, Kevaughn Harvey, Yojiro Ichikawa, Aileen Wen McGroddy, Keng S. Meateanuwat, Imani Mitchell, Emily Moler, Melissa Mowry, Danica Selem, and Alexis Kulani Woodard.
This group joins the previously announced directors continuing in their programs, which includes Zo毛 Adams, Arin Arbus, Desdemona Chiang, Nathaniel P. Claridad, Morgan Green, Irvin Mason, Jr., and Jess McLeod. They will also be joined in October by the artists of the Drama League International Directors Summit, taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria, as part of the ACT Festival of Independent Theatre. The twelve directors, representing eight countries, are NJ Agwuna, Ioseb Bakuradze, Ur拧ul臈 Barto, Maksima Boeva, Natalie Ester, Dima Levitskiy, Gwynn Macdonald, Stefan Prohorov, Agn臈 Pulokait臈, Lisa Rothe, Mei Ann Teo, and Gosia Wdowik.
The 2025 cohort will be celebrated during the 91st Annual Drama League Awards, held May 16 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, as previously reported.
鈥淭he challenges artists and cultural workers are facing today are unlike any in America鈥檚 history,鈥� Drama League Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks said in a statement. 鈥淭he 2025 Directors Project Recipients share exceptional creativity, a strong point of view, and a determined focus on a better future. It鈥檚 our desire to give them the resources and opportunity to make impactful, life-changing art for audiences. They offer their fellow citizens hope, inspiration, and a path forward. We cannot wait to see their dreams become reality.鈥�
The 2025 Directors Project Recipients will join the ranks of over 485 Drama League Alumni including Tony Award Winners Christopher Ashley (incoming Artistic Director, Roundabout Theatre Company), Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown), Sam Gold (Romeo+Juliet), Michael Mayer (Swept Away, Little Shop of Horrors), Pam MacKinnon (Artistic Director, A.C.T.), Diane Paulus (1776), John Rando (Back To The Future: The Musical), Danya Taymor (John Proctor Is The Villain), Rebecca Taichman (Sing Street), Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge!), Tony nominees Mark Brokaw (How I Learned To Drive), Lear deBessonet (incoming Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater), Anne Kauffman (Mary Jane), Lila Neugebauer (Appropriate), Whitney White (The Last Five Years), Moritz von Stuelpnagel (Bernhardt/Hamlet), Obie Award Winner Arin Arbus (Frankie and Johnny鈥�), Alan Schneider Award winner May Adrales (Dakar 2000), Callaway Award winner Mike Donahue (Troy), and more.
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