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To honor Bret's memory, and to help other talented young people reach the goal he worked so hard to achieve, his parents and friends have joined with Berkeley Repertory Theatre's School of Theatre to create The Bret C. Harte Directing Internship.
All fundraising is done by people who loved Bret. They donate all their time and talents so that 100% of all donations go directly towards the goal of the fund.
The major fundraisers are:
Meet The 2007/2008 Bret C. Harte Directing Intern
Marissa Wolf is a free-lance director in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She currently holds
the Bret Harte Young Directors' Internship at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, where she
has assistant-directed the world premieres of Passing Strange with director Annie
Dorsen,
and To the Lighthouse with director Les Waters.
Recent directing work includes
her adaptation of Gertrude Stein's poem, Lifting Belly, as well as Suzan-Lori Park's
Week 9 of her 365 Days/ 365 Plays cycle (FoolsFURY Theater),
and Contours: A
Shakespeare Project, an original work based on Shakespeare's women (Matchbox
Workshop, Crowded Fire Theater).
This spring, Marissa will direct Marguerite Duras'
The Malady of Death for the Fury Festival of Ensemble Theaters. Marissa acted as
Literary Associate for the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Associate Producer
for the 2006 In the Rough Reading Series with the Playwrights Foundation. She is
currently a company member of FoolsFURY Theater and a lead artist at Crowded Fire
Theater.
Marissa has her degree in drama from Vassar College, where she was the
recipient of the Kazan Award for Excellence in Performance, and received additional
training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Words from Marissa about the Bret Harte Young Directors Internship
It's a rare experience for an early 20s something, theater practitioner, to wake up every
morning and come to a preeminent regional theater for work. This year at Berkeley Rep,
working for the incredibly dynamic artistic staff, I have gained a larger breadth of vision
for myself in theater. The day to day work has taught me an immeasurable amount.
Sitting in on senior staff meetings, scheduling audition times for the Casting Director,
Amy Potozkin, assistant directing for directors I admire, like Lisa Peterson and Les
Waters, and sifting through mail while talking about theater theory and practice with
Artistic Director Tony Taccone—through all of this work, I have been inspired to think
about how, like the artists who work at Berkeley Rep, I too may live in a sustainable and
fruitful way in theater.
The Berkeley Rep community has welcomed me as a young
director, an apprentice to this difficult and spectacular craft, and has given me the
opportunity to immerse myself in the theater's creative processes.
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