Name:
Corey Atkins
Year Graduated/Attendend:
2004-2007
Degree:
M.F.A. Directing
Favorite Memory of T&D:
The unique energy and excitement during NWF (University Co-op presents the Cohen New Works Festival).
Influential Professors or Classes:
Scott Kanoff, Suzan Zeder, Stacy Wolf's “Reading the Cannon” course.
Current Hometown:
New York City
Current Profession:
Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company
Biography:
Corey Atkins is a 2008 Drama League Summer Directing Fellow. He received his M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin, and was awarded the 2007 W.H. ‘Deacon’ Crane Award by the Austin Critics Table for his production of Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City.
Corey Atkins is a freelance director based in New York City, and current Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company. NYC/regional: his own adaptation of Georg Büchner's Leonce & Lena, the premiere of Lia Romeo's Mrs. Henderson's Cat, and Reeling by Barry Kornhauser (Hangar Theatre); the premiere of Mass/Person, a new translation of Toller's Masse Mensch, by Laura Schlachtmeyer (Manhattan Theatre Source); the premier U.S. reading of Shellie by Curtis Clarendon (SoHo ThinkTank/Caribbean Playwrights Exchange); and Thom Pain (based on nothing) for FireStarter Productions. Austin, TX: Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City (5 Austin Critics' Table nominations); Fornés' The Conduct of Life; premieres Aisle 7, by Kendall Lynch (Critics' Table nom, “Best Direction”), and Umbrella by L. Pontius; and collaborations with Naomi Wallace, (premiere reading of Between This Breath and You) and CalArts M.F.A. Alana Macías on Silver Circus (workshop). He also directed for Austin Script Works, and was assistant on the premiere of Steven Tomlinson's Osborne Award-winning American Fiesta (State Theatre). Also Assistant Producer for the 2007 Co-op/Cohen New Works Festival, the nation's largest collegiate new works festival. Awarded the prestigious “W.H. 'Deacon' Crane Award” by the Austin Critics' Table for his cumulative work in Austin. Assistant: at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie/ Acting Co., Cleveland Play House, Keen Company, and Portland Stage Co. Corey is a Drama League Directing Fellow, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin.
