Elizabeth Falk is thrilled to return to the magical John Drew Theatre at Guild Hall, if only virtually. She’s directed 74 productions of Shakespeare, contemporary and musical theatre, and opera, at such venues as Shakespeare’s Globe London, where she was the first woman ever to direct, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Theatre at Anichkov Palace St Petersburg, Russia, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, Newport Music Festival, York Theatre NYC, UK/AZ Festival Phoenix, Carpenter Center Long Beach and Off-Broadway, in 11 states and in Russia, South Korea, Austria, England and Australia. Now stuck in the Covid-chute is her Broadway debut as playwright and director, and directorial gigs at Theatre for the New City, NY and an adaptation of Pagliacci for a puppet theatre in Cuba. This is her fifth collaboration with Joe Beck, her third with Austin Pendleton. Some other luminaries she’s directed: José Ferrer, Helen Hayes, Werner Klemperer, Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon, Stephen Lang, Tony Bennett, Richard Carpenter, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Rip Torn, Earle Hyman, Richard Cassilly, Nedda Casei and Robert White. In May her play White Tie and Veils was Zoom-cast by Virtual Broadcasting Together.
