Yes, I live in New York!
Shira Milikowsky is a director and creator specializing in new plays and radical re-imaginings of musicals and classic texts. Her recent projects include Little Murders, Distant Star, and, along with composer/choreographer Andrew Barret Cox and performer/writer Mark Mauriello, the founding of the nascent performance and production company, The Neon Coven. The Neon Coven’s inaugural production, OSCAR at The Crown, was extended for a commercial, open-ended run in the summer of 2019. I’m sorry you missed it in Bushwick, but stay tuned for its return…
In her six years as the Artistic Associate at the American Repertory Theater, Shira directed The Lily's Revenge by Taylor Mac (named by The Boston Globe as one of the top 10 theater events of the year), Bride*Widow*Hag by Kim Rosenstock, and countless other productions, workshops and special projects.
As a recipient of the Henry Luce Scholarship, Shira lived in Seoul, South Korea where she was a visiting artist at the Seoul Metropolitan Theater and a visiting Professor at Kookmin University. While there, she also created a Korean adaptation of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle which toured to Tumen City, China, on the border with North Korea.
Shira holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia and a BA in Theater Studies from Yale. She has taught acting and directing at Brown, Wesleyan and Fordham. Shira is currently an Associate Lecturer in Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard.