Lindsey Alterman
"Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice." - Maya Angelou
Lindsey Alterman is a New York-based Director and Dramaturg. With a love for minimalistic and metaphorical staging, she strives to create pieces that highlight the potential for beauty in dark circumstances. Through choreographic movement that emphasizes mirroring and repetitive timing, she turns pain into visual poetry. The sense of wonder elicited in viewers unites them in a common experience, allowing them to relate to both the characters onstage and one another in one sustained moment of humanity. This, she believes, is the only true way to heal. Above all else, she aims to find light in the darkness. She intends to prove that all life is beautiful and is therefore worth preserving.
Moonlight Becomes You / The Tank
When two newly engaged women travel to a bed and breakfast in Provincetown for a romantic weekend together, a house supposedly haunted by a mysterious woman in white, the last thing they expected was to be visited by a drag queen in a wedding dress trapped in town by a storm. As she tells them about her own tragic history, however, a lost love some many years before, they start to wonder if the past can haunt us in more ways than one.
Recent Projects
The Laramie Project / The Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season
25 years ago, Matthew Shepard was severely beaten and left to die in an empty field. The men who targeted him did so because he was gay. In the proceeding months, nationwide attention was cast on hate, culminating in a movement that would lead to landmark anti-hate crime legislation in America. In November of that year, the members of the Tectonic Theatre Project travelled to Laramie, Wyoming to interview the people of the town where the murder occurred. This play is a collection of those interviews, as well as other found texts, that examines the thoughts and beliefs of the community before, during, and after the crime against Matthew.
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If you’re ready to make ground-breaking and challenging theatre, I’d love to work with you!
