CASEY STANGL
Casey Stangl was recently selected to participate in American Film Institute’s
2007 Directing Workshop for Women. This prestigious program was designed
“to provide talented women who have established themselves within film,
television or theatre with the opportunity to direct a narrative project.” In June
Casey will direct From Here, a quirky romantic comedy.
Casey is an award-winning director of theatre and opera. She served a twelveyear tenure as Artistic Director of Eye of the Storm Theatre in Minneapolis, a
company she co-founded to develop and produce new plays and bring nationally
prominent new work to Twin Cities’ audiences. Casey was named Artist of the
Year by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Best Director by City Pages’ “Best of
the Twin Cities” and Lavender Magazine.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 2005 Casey has directed the American premiere
of Darwin in Malibu and Barbra’s Wedding for Garry Marshall’s Falcon Theatre.
Casey has also directed new play workshops for South Coast Repertory,
Pasadena Playhouse, Pacific Resident Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and
the NYU Collective. For television Casey has shadowed Alan Ball on the final
episode of Six Feet Under, Peter Horton on Grey’s Anatomy, Will Mackenzie on
two episodes of Reba, and Gail Mancuso on Scrubs.
Other recent work includes: Pygmalion, Blue/Orange and Top Girls for the
Guthrie Theater; The Ladies of the Camellias for Denver Center Theatre
Company; The Winter’s Tale for Alabama Shakespeare Festival; My Way for
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, The Drawer Boy and Fully Committed for
the Jungle Theater, which transferred to the Pantages Theatre for a commercial
run; and Untold Crimes of Insomniacs, a world premiere produced by the Guthrie
as part of their BFA program with the University of Minnesota. Casey’s work has
been seen across the country at HERE in New York, Woolly Mammoth in
Washington D.C., Bailiwick Art Center in Chicago and The Lab in San Francisco.
Casey’s opera credits include: Dialogues of the Carmelites for Fort Worth Opera;
Il Viaggio a Reims for Music Academy of the West and Portland Opera (in
Portland Ms. Stangl co-directed with Christopher Mattalliano); Rigoletto and
Norma for Minnesota Opera Company; Die Fledermaus for Pine Mountain Music
Festival in Michigan; Cosi Fan Tutte, Hansel and Gretel and Amahl and the Night
Visitors for Opera Omaha; The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein for Northstar Opera;
and assistant director for Frank Corsaro's production of The Marriage of Figaro at
Juilliard Opera Center in New York.
Upcoming engagements include a new production of La Boheme for Music
Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and Third, Wendy Wasserstein’s last
play, for The Guthrie Theatre.
CASEY STANGL
CaseyStangl8@aol.com
Represented by Ron Gwiazda, Abrams Artists Agency 646-461-9325
HONORS AND AWARDS
Named Artist of the Year 2004 by The Star Tribune
Named Best Director of 2003 by City Pages and Lavender Magazine
EMPLOYMENT
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA
Director, La Boheme by Puccini
Director, Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini
August 2007
August 2006
The Falcon Theater, Burbank, CA
Director, Darwin in Malibu by Crispin Whittell
Director, Barbra’s Wedding by Daniel Stern
May 2006
September 2005
Denver Center Theater Company, Denver, CO
Director, The Ladies of the Camellias by Lillian Groag
March 2006
Fort Worth Opera, Fort Worth TX
Director, Dialogues of the Carmelites by Poulenc
January 2006
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL
Director, The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare
August 2005
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN
Director, My Way by David Grapes and Todd Olson
March 2005
The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Director, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Director, Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall
Director, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Director, Untold Crimes of Insomniacs by Janet Allard (world premiere)
-for the Guthrie/University of Minnesota BFA Program
October 2004
June 2004
May 2003
April 2004
Portland Opera, Portland, OR
Co-Director, Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini
November 2004
The Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Director, The Drawer Boy by Michael Healy
Director, Fully Committed by Becky Mode
February 2004
December 2001 and July 2002
Eye of the Storm Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Artistic Director and Co-Founder
1991 - 2003
Directed most of the company’s productions including The Play about the Baby, Dinner with Friends, Stop Kiss,
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, How I Learned To Drive, Collected Stories, Quills, SantaLand Diaries, Fat
Men in Skirts and The Baltimore Waltz.
Directed the world premieres of Slither, Fair Game, Cowbird, Heckler, Hate Mail, and The Big Slam.
Minnesota Opera Company, Minneapolis, MN
Stage Director, Rigoletto by Verdi
Stage Director, Norma by Bellini
November 2003
January 2003
The Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN
Director, Hungry Ghosts by Bill Corbett (Hot House)
Director, The Erotic Life of Property by Carson Grace Becker (Playlabs)
Director, The Ruling Passion by Sherry Kramer (Playlabs)
April 2003
August 2000
August 1998
Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE
Director, Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti
Director, Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart
Director, Hansel and Gretel by Humperdink
December 2000 and December 2001
November 1996
September 1995 and September 1996
CASEY STANGL, Continued
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington D.C.
Director, The Big Slam by Bill Corbett
January 1997 and August 1997
Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Director, Spirit House by Beth Gilleland (world premiere)
Director, Conversation Hearts by Beth Gilleland (Fresh Ink)
Director, Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens by Beth Gilleland (world premiere)
April 1999
July 1996
June 1993 and June 1994
Great American History Theater, St. Paul, MN
Director, Song Catcher by Marcie Rendon (world premiere)
Director, Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
March 1998
February 1994
Troupe America, National Tour
Director, Miracle on 34th Street by Buffy Sedlachek and Kevin Rotty
December 1997 and December 1998
Juilliard Opera Center, New York, NY
Assistant Director for Frank Corsaro, The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
April 1996
Northstar Opera, Minneapolis, MN
Stage Director, The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Offenbach
February 1996
Theatre Mu, Minneapolis, MN
Director, Mask Dance by Rick Shiomi
December 1995
Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop, Minneapolis, MN
Director, No Sex Please, We’re Skittish (company created)
Director, Mix-Up in the Manger (company created)
Director, Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling (company created)
September 1995
November 1994
April 1994
Bailiwick Theatre Company, Chicago, IL
Director, Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens by Beth Gilleland
February 1995
HERE, New York, NY
Director, Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens by Beth Gilleland
August 1994
KTCA Public Television
Director, Act of Violence
November 1994
Park Square Theatre Company
Director, The Rover
Choreographer, The Learned Ladies
March 1993
April 1991
Stages Theatre Company, Hopkins, MN
Associate Director
1990 - 1992
Directed The Ugly Duckling by Patty Lynch (‘92) and Aladdin’s Lamp by Mark Miller (‘90)
Created Left of Center, a program pairing teen actors with professional artists to create original plays. Co-created
and directed Same Old Song (‘91), Wreak Havoc (‘91) and After These Messages... (‘90)
Instructor for Summer Theatre Workshop ‘91, ‘90
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
B.A. Theatre Arts