Bill Burford |
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William Burford teaches directing this semester at Stony Brook's Department of Theatre Arts. He is the General Manager of the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, and has served as its CFO and Producer since 2001. He directed 'proof' for LIPP and the senior project 'The Family of Mann' at Stony Brook. He has taught at SBU as guest lecturer on acting, bunraku puppetry, and play development.
He produced Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at The Stephen Talkhouse for Quack Theatrics. As producer he helped establish ACT ONE, a theatre company on the New Hampshire coast inheriting the tradition of the Hampton Playhouse. He directed the Ross Institute's music education conference at Shanghai's Conservatory of Music with advanced composition students from China, Sweden and New York. He served as Dean of Performing Arts at the Ross School in East Hampton, New York. Bill was executive director for the Strand Street Theatre in Galveston's historic district, serving as its artistic and administrative head during a three-year rebirth of its operations. He revived the theatre program at Galveston College.
Trained as a stage director, he has produced, directed, designed or written for performances extensively in both professional and educational settings. He has helped establish or restructure production and arts education programs in California, Texas and New York. Bill has taught theatre skills and interdisciplinary creative process for 30 years, and designs curriculum and arts programming for schools and training programs. He teaches playwriting and acting at the Bay Street Theatre.
His MFA is in Directing under Francis Hodge at the University
of Texas at Austin, where he also earned honors in philosophy as
an undergraduate. He served for the last three years on the Theatre
Panel for the New York State Council on the Arts. Contact: quacktheatrics@gmail.com |
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