BRIDGET GRACE SHEAFF
DIRECTOR, PLAYWRIGHT, THEATRE ADMINISTRATOR

DIRECTOR:

Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Maples Rep '23)

Once Upon a Shoe (Maples Rep '23)

Sister Act (Columbia Entertainment Company '23)

Rogers and Hammerstein's State Fair (Carousel Productions '23)

Merrymaking by Michael Perrie, Jr. (Maples Rep '22)

A Midnight Dreary: All Things Heard in the Heavens and in the Earth (We Happy Few '20)%

The Velveteen Rabbit (Hangar Theatre KIDSTUFF '20)%

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, trans. Brian Hooker (We Happy Few '20)***

Chateau Margaux (Teatro Lirico '19)

Shakespeare's Worst by Mike Reiss with Nick Newlin (Fringe Curates '19)

The Broken Moon by Iris Dauterman (Play-in-A-Day '19)

Los Galivanes (Teatro Lirico '18)

Frankenstein  (We Happy Few '18)

Burst by Amy Leigh Horan (Parlor Room Theatre '18)

Infinite Future: Bernstein's Lasting Impact (Monumental Theatre Company '18)

Tartuffe by Moliere, trans. Richard Wilbur (Perisphere Theatre '18)

The Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega (We Happy Few '17)

Exit Carolyn by Jennie Berman Eng (Nu Sass '17)

Siblings by Emily Catalina Morales Rojas (YPT New Play Festival '17)

A Midnight Dreary: An Evening of Macabre Theatrics (We Happy Few '16, '17, '18)

Motherless Children by Jenn Tash  (New Works in Action- Spooky Action Theatre ’16)

Consenting Opinions: Nine One Minute Plays  (One-Minute Play Festival '16) 

Static by Tom Horan (Source Theatre Festival ’16)

One Word More by Annalisa Dias (Mead Theatre Lab ’16)

Barbie Dream House by Ally Currin (Rorschach Klecksography ’15)

The Physics of Now by Alex Dremann (Source Theatre Festival ’15)

Ball Drop by Rich Espey (Source Theatre Festival ’15)

Merry Melodies by Marlena Lustik (Cape May Stage '14)

Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley (Cape May Stage '14)

Sophocles' Antigone (CUAdrama 2014 Winner Best Independent Production)

Sondheim's Company (CUA Centerstage 2013 Winner Best Direction)

Everyman (CUAdrama 2013 Winner Best Production, Direction, and Design)

A Play on Words: A Cabaret (CUAdrama ’12)

Something Shakespeare This Way Comes (CUAdrama ’11)

A Lifetime of Secrets by Frank Warren (CUAdrama ’11)

STAGED READINGS:

            Transferal by Jack Novak (Spooky Action Theater '20) **

PONZI! by Lois Cesarini (Lo-Notes Productions '19) **

What's In A Name?  (The Hub '19) **

A Warm Winter's Day by Kylie Levy (The Hub '19) **

Office of the Speaker by Nicole Cox (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage '17) **

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (We Happy Few '17) **

Shoah Business by Jennie Berman Eng (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage '16) **

The Horse and Carriage by Karin Shook (NextStop Summer Dark Nights '16) **

Iphigenie by Jean Racine (We Happy Few '16) **

Motherless Children by Jenn Tash (Spooky Action Theater '15) **

reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute (Cape May Stage '14) **

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (Cape May Stage '14) **

Venus in Fur by David Ives (Cape May Stage '14) **

The Seagull by Anton Chekov (Cape May Stage '14) **

Cat on Hot Tin Roof by Tenessee Williams (Cape May Stage '14) **

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph (Cape May Stage '14) **

Celebrating Pride: A Gay Pride Reading  (Cape May Stage '14) **

York Mystery Cycle Creation Plays (CUA Medieval Society '14) **

Everyman (CUA Medieval Society '13) **

The Laundryman by Robert Montenegro (Beltway Reading Series '13) **

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:

House Work dir. Sanaz Gahjar (Hangar Theatre THE WEDGE- ’20)

The Wanderers dir. Amber Paige McGinnis (Theater J- ’20)

The Oldest Boy dir. Kathryn Chase Bryer (Spooky Action Theater- ’19)

Big River dir. Shelley Cooper (Mississippi Bend Players- ’18)
The Wild Party dir. Allison Stockman (Constellation Theatre- '17)

Titanic: The Musical dir. Eric Schaeffer (Signature Theatre- '16)

Collaborators by John Hodge dir. Richard Heinrich (Spooky Action Theater '16)

Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam dir. Gregg Henry (Theater J '15)

La Rosa del Azfran dir. Corinne Hayes (Teatro Lirico of DC '15)^

very still & hard to see by Steve Yockey dir. Randy Baker (Rorschach Theatre '15)

Mistakes Were Made by Craig Wright dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice dir. Eleanor Holdridge (CUAdrama ’14)

A Bid to Save the World by Erin Bregman dir. Lee Liebeskind (The Inkwell '14)**

Legally Blonde: The Musical dir. Ron Ziegler (Des Moines Playhouse ’13)

#crazypants by Kat White dir. Kathleen Akerley (CUAdrama ’12)

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DRAMATURGE:

Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam dir. Gregg Henry (Theater J '15)

Mistakes Were Made by Craig Wright dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig dir. Roy Steinberg (Cape May Stage '14)

The Mountaintop by Katori Hall dir. by Gregg T. Daniel (Cape May Stage '14)

Moliere's The Miser dir. Guillaume Tourniare (Rockville Little Theatre ’14)

 

WORKSHOPS AND INTENSIVES:

Directors Lab North- June 2022, Toronto, Canada

Hangar Theater Lab- July 2020, Ithaca NY

Lincoln Center Director’s Lab- August 2019, New York NY
Playwrighting Intensive at The Shakespeare Theatre- February 2017, Washington DC
Signature Musical Theatre Director Workshop- January 2016, Arlington VA

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** indicates a staged reading

^ billed as Associate Director

***cancelled due to COVID-19

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