RODNEY HAKIM

ACTOR/DIRECTOR


DIRECTING RESUME


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Hair:  Black          Eyes:  Brown          Height:  5’7”        Weight: 150 lbs.          Voice:  Bass/Baritone


 

DIRECTING

Shining City Director Queens Theatre in the Park
Dating Grim (premiere) Director TBG Theatre

Frozen

Director

Queens Theatre in the Park

And Whose Fault is That? (premiere)

Director

Sound Bytes One-Act Fest

Entertaining Lesbians (premiere; named as Fall Collection "Select Artist")

Director

The Fall Collection

No Exit  (“Best of the Fest”, Midtown International Theatre Festival)

Director

New 42nd St. Theatre

The Dress

Director

The Theatre-Studio, Inc.

Seasons of Love: Four One-Act Comedies by Anton Chekhov

Director

Producer’s Club Theatre

Operation Ajax A.D. / Co-Creator The Butane Group

Collateral Damage (premiere)

Assistant Director

Samuel French Festival

Oedipus Rex

Assistant Director

Cypreco of America

The Tempest (“Best Actress”, Hofstra University Shakespeare)

Assistant Director

Black Box Theatre

 

DIRECTING (Staged Readings)

Neglected Classics Series: Chekhov's Farces (staged reading) Director Mid-Manhattan Library
Neglected Classics Series: Seneca's Oedipus (staged reading) Director Mid-Manhattan Library
Neglected Classics Series: Venus and Adonis (staged reading) Director Mid-Manhattan Library
A Midsummer Night's Dream (staged reading) Director Shakespeare Group

Arthur (work-in-progress reading)

Director

CAP 21

The Inventions of Eradan (staged reading/premiere)

Director

Church Street School

The Taming of the Shrew (staged reading)

Director

Genesis Repertory Ensemble

Shakespeare Readings

Director/Founder

Barnes & Noble Bookstores

 

STAGE MANAGING / FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY

Betrayal

Stage Manager

W.C. Theatre

Absent Friends

Assistant Stage Manager

West End Theatre

Carnival (dir. Tony winner Charles Repole)

Assistant Stage Manager

JCA Playhouse

The Tempest (scene cuttings)

Stage Manager

Black Box Theatre

Man of La Mancha

Fight Choreographer

Star Playhouse

Romeo and Juliet

Fight Choreographer

Arena Classical Theatre

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Acting

Acting & Scene Study

Adrienne Thompson, John Shorter

 

Sande Shurin’s Transformational Acting

Ginger Prince/Tripp Hanson

 

Alba Emoting (Workshop)

Roxane Rix

Shakespearean Acting

Shakespearean Acting (Master Class)

Ada Brown Mather

 

Unrehearsed Shakespeare / First Folio Technique (Workshop)

Demitra Papadinis (artistic director, N.E. Shakespeare Festival)

Stage Combat

Stage Combat (Workshop)

Rob Ruffin

Movement

Laban Movement for Actors (Workshop)

Tammy Meneghini

Improvisation

Improvisation (Workshop)

Second City Improv

Musical Theatre

Musical Theatre Performance (Master Class)

Jason Alexander

 

SPECIAL SKILLS

Languages (English, Farsi/Iranian, Spanish), Dialects/Accents (Standard British, Cockney, Italian, Iranian, Israeli, Turkish, Russian), Voices/Impressions, Singing (Bass-Baritone), Dramaturgy, Stage Combat, Fight Choreography, Physical Comedy, Spit Takes, Comedic Straight Man, Stand-Up Comedy, Comedy Writing, Improvisation, Comic Timing, Can Move Eyebrows Separately, Good with Kids


© 2008 Rodney Hakim