Summer Programs For High School StudentsNew York City

Dyana Kimball earned her B.A. in English literature at Boston University and an M.F.A in directing at Columbia University. She is a current member of the Women’s Project Director’s Lab and teaches directing at Marymount Manhattan College. She has been a guest director at Long Island University's CW Post Campus and at UMass Lowell, and she’s been a visiting artist at Vassar College and the University of Alaska in Juneau. Ms. Kimball was the founder and Artistic Director of Boston Directors' Lab for five years and is currently a member of the New York-based theatre Collective, Ontik. Her directing credits include: NYC: Alice Tuan's adaptation of Thomas Middleton's "The Roaring Girle" (CW Post); Thornton Wilder's "The Happy Journey" (Marymount Manhattan College); Alexis Clements’ “Conversation” (University Settlement) and “Your own Personal Apocalypse” (Chashama); “Numbers” by Kieron Barry (Manhattan Rep.); "Orestes 2.0" by Charles Mee Jr. (CW Post); Georg Buchner's "Woyzeck" (Central Park); Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine" (Theatre at Riverside Church); Bertolt Brecht's "Baal, Island of Slaves" by Marivaux, and Bixby Elliot's "Love and Literature" (Schapiro Theatre at Columbia); "Library Play" by Paul Cohen (J. Houseman Theatre), "Sill Life," by Emily Mann (Belt Theatre), "Rubber" by Tom Sleigh (RAW Space) and "Chopping" by Magdalena Gomez (HERE Arts Center). Regional: "Roach, An Adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis," by ONTIK, Philadelphia, PA (Spirit Wind Arts), "Don Giovanni," by Mozart, Juneau, AK (Opera-to-Go); "What Will I Do When You’re Gone," by Neil Bell, Cambridge, MA (The Market Theatre/BTM); "Traveling Naked," by Debra Lake Fortson, Boston, MA (Boston Playwrights Theatre); "Through the Leaves", by Franz Xaver Kroetzk, Boston, MA (BDL); "Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie," by Albert Innurato, Boston, MA (BDL).