Gina Kaufmann
gina@theater.umass.edu
Assistant Professor, Performance and Directing
BA, University of Iowa in Iowa City
MFA, University of Texas at Austin
Biography

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Monday and Wednesday 1:30 - 3

Gina Kaufmann has worked as a director and acting coach in numerous regional venues, including The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto.  In New York, she has directed for SoHo Rep, HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Wings Theatre, and Dixon Place.  Most recently, she directed Tartuffe and Private Lives for Sacramento Theatre Company and The Comedy of Errors for Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.  She has worked extensively on new play development, including three years as a guest director with Paula Vogel and the New Play Festival at Brown University, directing a production of Vogel's own play, Hot 'N' Throbbing at Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theatre, a season as the director of the Frost Festival at Dartmouth College, and four years as the Artistic Director of The Unusual Cabaret in Maine.  Before joining the faculty at UMass, she was a directing and acting teacher for four years at Sacramento State University.  Gina holds an MFA in Directing from The University of Texas at Austin and is a member of The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Click here for a review of Kaufmann's 2005 production of Tartuffe.