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.
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.
Scripture / The Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season
To save her mother, Sarah prepares an elaborate ritual, pieced together with holy words and prophetic compulsions. But the ritual is as much sacrificial as it is sacred, and when her childhood friend Michael interferes, Sarah is forced to choose between life and death or holiness and humanity.
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If you’re ready to make ground-breaking and challenging theatre, I’d love to work with you!
