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ALEXANDRA HARBOLD | DIRECTOR

 
 
 
 

The Heart of Robin Hood by David Farr | University of Utah Department of Theatre Photo credit: Todd Collins Photography

FANG Aidan Hughes | Puppetry and Props Design Arika Schockmel and Mae Hinton-Godfrey, Scenic Design Gage Williams, Scenic Artist Halee Rasmussen, Lighting Design Michael Horejsi, Costume Design Niamh Helwig, Composer Jen Jackson, Sound Design Porter Charlesworth, Fight Director Chris DuVal, Dialect Coach Sarah Shippobotham, Choreographer/AD Ella Frank, TD Kyle Becker, Director Alexandra Harbold, Stage Manager Julia Witesman

 

Alexandra Harbold is a director, Equity actor, voiceover artist, dramaturg, and teacher based in Salt Lake City. 

Harbold and Robert Scott Smith founded and share creative leadership of Flying Bobcat, a Theatrical Laboratory which produces and creates performance-based work.

She earned her Masters in Theatre Arts (Performance Studies option) from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, and her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre (High Honors, magna cum laude) from Middlebury College.  She is an alumna of SITI Company's Skidmore Summer Intensive, BADA's Midsummer at Oxford, Michael Howard Studios in NYC, Plan-B Theatre/Meat & Potato Theatre’s Directors’ Lab, and The Field (SLC).  

Alexandra Harbold is Assistant Professor of Directing in the University of Utah's Department of Theatre

 

DIRECTING | FULL PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTIONS

2024 The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore, Translated by William Radice | Co-Director and Co-Producer Alexandra Harbold in collaboration with Director Jacob Sen and Designer Kiernan Grissom | Choreographer Shruthe Raammohan | Costume Design Avneet Sandhu | Deliverance in partnership with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival

2023 The Wreck of Queen Thomasina by Connor Nelis Johnson | A Footpath Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival | August 4-12, 14-19, 2023

2022 To Saints and Stars by Jordan Ramirez Puckett | Good Company Theatre | November 3-20, 2022

2022 The Wreck of Queen Thomasina by Connor Nelis Johnson | Produced by Footpath Theatre Co and presented by spit&vigor | August 5-21, 2022

2021 Ronald and Edith by Connor Nelis Johnson (Premiere at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival) | The Fairy Story Society and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory | July 30-August 1, August 6-8th @7:30 pm

2020 At the Bottom by Christopher Madsen (Premiere) | Pinnacle Acting Company | February 27-March 8, 2020

2019 Death of a Driver by Will Snider (Utah Premiere) | Salt Lake Acting Company | September 11-October20, 2019

2019 The Night Witches by Rachel Bublitz | The Egyptian Theatre at the Great Salt Lake Fringe | August 3-11, 2019 (2019 Audience Choice Award)

2018 The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe | Salt Lake Acting Company | October 10 – November 11, 2018

2018   Macbeth by William Shakespeare | Pinnacle Acting Company | Westminster College | June 14-30, 2018

2018    Jump by Austin Archer | with Co-Director Robert Scott Smith A Plan-B Theatre co-production with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory in partnership with The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists | April 5-15, 2018

2017   Ion | The Classical Greek Theatre Festival | Westminster College | September 14-25, 2017

2017   How Long Can You Stand on the Train Tracks: A Game for Two Sisters by Morag Shepherd | Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory Co-production with Sackerson | July 7-9, 13-16, 2017

2016   Picnic | The Grand Theatre | March 17-April 2, 2016 

2016   Climbing with Tigers | Salt Lake Acting Company with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory & Red Fred Project | March 4-26, 2016

2015   Tribes | Salt Lake Acting Company | October 21-November 15, 2015

2015   Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Salt Lake Shakespeare | Babcock Theatre | July 9-19, 2015

2014   Once on This Island | Musical Director Kevin Mathie & Choreographer Michelle Patrick | The Grand Theatre

2013   The Righteous and Very Real Housewives of Utah County | Alligator Press Productions | Fort Douglas Post Theatre

2012   Betrayal | Pinnacle Acting Company

2011   (a man enters) | World Premiere | Salt Lake Acting Company

2011   The Persian Quarter*| World Premiere | Salt Lake Acting Company

2009   Three Days of Rain | Pinnacle Acting Company

2009   Rabbit Hole**  | Pinnacle Acting Company

2008   Romeo & Juliet  | Pinnacle Acting Company

2002   Concentric Circles | Bailiwick Directors’ WinterFest, Chicago, IL

1999   The Gravity of Means | Wolfgang Theatre | Chicago, IL

ACADEMIC DIRECTING

2024 The Heart of Robin Hood by David Farr | Meldrum Theatre @ University of Utah Department of Theatre | September 27-October 7, 2024

2023 The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical Book by Joe Tracz, Music & Lyrics by Rob Rokicki, Adapted from the book THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan | University of Utah Department of Theatre

2023 The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson | University of Utah Department of Theatre

2022 New Works Project: Liminal by Troy Deutsch, Based on an Original Story by the Also Sisters, created in collaboration with Brandan Ngo | Flying Bobcat in partnership with the University of Utah Department of Theatre | Co-Directors Alexandra Harbold and Robert Scott Smith | February 2022

2021 Storm Still by Gab Reisman | University of Utah Department of Theatre | September 24, 26, 30 and October 1, 2, 3, 2022

2020 The Night Witches by Rachel Bublitz | World Premiere Livestream | University of Utah Department of Theatre

2019 The Odyssey | University of Utah Department of Theatre | Nov 8, 9, 13-15, and 17 2019

2019 The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan| University of Utah Department of Theatre | April 5-15, 2019

2017   You Never Can Tell | Babcock Theatre, University of Utah | November 2017

2016   Self Defense, or death of some salesmen | Studio 115 | University of Utah

2014  The Owl Girl | Studio 115 | University of Utah

2013   Love Alone | Studio 115 | University of Utah | November 14 – 24, 2013

2013   The Eccentrics | Studio 115 | University of Utah

2001   Untitled: The Sounds of Unheard Voices (Co-Director Cheryl Faraone)   Middlebury College, VT

1999   The Gravity of Means    Middlebury College, VT

DIRECTING (DEVISED PROJECTS)

2013   MIND over MATTER | Co-Created with Robert Scott Smith, Nell Gwynn, & Conor Provenzano | The Leonardo

2013   LOVE: a mixed-media cabaret | Co-Created with Robert Scott Smith, Austin Archer, & Deena Marie Manzanares | The Leonardo  

2012   SENSES 5 | Co-Created with Robert Scott Smith | The Leonardo

DIRECTING (ONE ACTS AND SELECTED STAGED READINGS)

2024 Hear Us Roar by Rachel Bublitz | Commissioned by Alexandra Harbold and the University of Utah Department of Theatre, Studio 115

2023   Let Down Your Hair| Salt Lake Acting Company New Play Sounding Series

2023   Will It Go Round | Pioneer Theatre Company Play-by-Play Series

2022 macbitches | Pioneer Theatre Company Play-by-Play Series

2017   The Art of Floating | Plan-B Theatre | Script in Hand Series (upcoming: February 22, 2017)

2012    Devil Dog Six | Salt Lake Acting Company | New Play Sounding Series

2012   Spark | Pygmalion Productions TBD Reading Series

2012   A Slight Discomfort | Jeff Metcalf | Touring

2012   The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Helper Art & Music Festival | Helper, UT

2012   SLAM | Next! | Plan-B Theatre Company                     

2012   Monsterheart | SLAC: New Play Sounding Series

2012   The Agony & The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs | SLAC: New Play Sounding Series

2011   T.I.C. (Trenchcoat in Common) by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb | SLAC: New Play Sounding Series

2010   SLAM | Brown Shoes | Plan-B Theatre

2010   Prophets of Nature | SLAC: New Play Sounding Series

2010   Over | Plan-B/ Meat & Potato: Script in Hand

2010   Self Storage   Plan-B/ Meat & Potato: Script in Hand

2009   SLAM | Black & White   Plan-B Theatre

2007   Keeping Clean amid the Messy Night   Dance Theatre Coalition: Proving Ground        

2006   Faint Whistle in the Crater   Dance Theatre Coalition: Proving Ground          

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

2012   Emma, dir. Matthew Arbour   Pioneer Theatre Company

2010   Charm, dir. Meg Gibson   Salt Lake Acting Company

2004   Trembling Hands, dir. Paul Tei   MadCat Theatre, Miami, FL          

2004   The Gulf of Westchester, dir. Lou Tyrrell   Florida Stage, Manalapan, FL

2004   Mercy of a Storm, dir. Michael Bigelow Dixon   Florida Stage, Manalapan, FL

2003   Running with Scissors, dir. Lou Tyrrell   Florida Stage, Manalapan, FL

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE           

  • Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)

  • Member of StateraArts

  • Member of Actors Equity Association (AEA)

  • Member of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)

  • Artistic & Literary Associate | Salt Lake Acting Company

  • Communications & Audience Development | Salt Lake Acting Company

  • Research Assistant to Playwright Julie Jensen | She Was My Brother

  • Visiting Lecturer | Acting I & Creative Process | Middlebury College, VT

  • Faculty | Creative Process | American Festival for the Arts | Houston, TX

EDUCATION | TRAINING

  • Change Leader Institute | Utah Division of Arts & Museums | Park City, UT

  • Viewpoints/Suzuki/Composition (graduate credit) | SITI Summer Intensive | Skidmore College, NY

  • M.A. Performance Studies | University of London, Goldsmiths College | UK

  • B.A. Theatre, High Honors, Magna cum laude | Middlebury College, VT

  • BADA Midsummer at Oxford | Balliol College | UK

  • Acting | Michael Howard | Michael Howard Studios | NYC, NY

PLAY | ROLE | THEATRE | DIRECTOR (* denotes world premiere, † upcoming production, strikethrough cancellation due to Covid-19 shutdown)

*How to Transcend a Happy Marriage | Jane | Salt Lake Acting Company | Director Adrienne Moore | 2020

Molly Sweeney (Staged Reading) | Molly Sweeney | UtahPresents | Director Robin Wilks-Dunn | 2018

Hand to God | Marjorie | Salt Lake Acting Company | Director Christopher DuVal | 2017

Remington & Weasel | Alex Weadle | Pygmalion Productions | Dir. Robin Wilks-Dunn

Slow Food (Play-by-Play) | Woman | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Julie Kramer

Two Stories | Jodi | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. Keven Myhre

FEAST | Woman | NOW International/Interdisciplinary Dance Company, Playwright Troy Deutsch, & Flying Bobcat | Choreographer/Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen 

A Public Education (Play-By-Play) | Pam Finley | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Shana Gold

Circle Mirror Transformation | Teresa | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. Adrianne Moore

Dancing at Lughnasa | Maggie | Pinnacle Acting Company | Dir. John Michael Graham

Hamlet | Player Queen [U/S Gertrude] | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Charles Morey

Toll of War (Reading) | Athena/Tekmessa | Classical Greek Theatre | Dir. Larry West

Six Years | Meredith | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. Tracy Callahan

The Seagull | Arkadina | Pinnacle Acting Company | Dir. Melanie Nelson

Living Out* | Nancy | Pygmalion Productions | Dir. Reb Fleming

The Rant (NPSS Reading) | Lila Mahnaz | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. Paul Kiernan

Ugly to the Bone (Script in Hand Series) | Faith | Plan-B Theatre | Dir. Jerry Rapier

Reviving Ophelia | Mom | Youth Theatre at the U | Dir. 

Ice Glen | Dulce | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. David Mong

Fat Pig | Jeannie | Pygmalion Productions | Dir. Shellie Waters

Ugly to the Bone/ ‘06 SLAM | Prudence | Plan-B Theatre | Dir. Larry West

Art for Art’s Sake (NPSS Reading) | Marie | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. Tony Larimer

Passion Play (Reading) | Nell | Aspect Theatre, Chicago, IL

Antigone (Reading) | Antigone | Aspect Theatre, Chicago, IL

Slow Dance on the Killing Ground | Rosie | Aspect Theatre, Chicago

Blue Forest | Alice | Potomac Theatre Project, Olney, MD

Necessary Targets (Reading) | Melissa | Middlebury Symposia, VT

Stick Knife Here | Chalk Girl | Building Stage, Chicago, IL

The Voyage of the Carcass | Eliza Kane | Building Stage, VT

Boxing the Compass | Maeve | New Actors' Stage, Chicago, IL

In Perpetuity throughout the Universe | Christine Penderecki | American Festival for the Arts | Houston, TX

Fantasio | Elspeth | Helle Theatre Company, NYC

Happiness Compartment | Mary Jo | NXT, London, England Mrs. Klein | Melitta Klein | NXT, London, England

Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants. | June | Potomac Theatre Project, DC

VOICEOVER EXPERIENCE
Reading Horizons
Visual Link Spanish
Yikes! Audio Book by Adele Park

EDUCATION | TRAINING

  • Viewpoints/Suzuki/Composition (graduate credit) | SITI Summer Intensive | Skidmore College, NY

  • M.A. Performance Studies | University of London, Goldsmiths College | UK

  • B.A. Theatre, High Honors, Magna cum laude | Middlebury College, VT

  • BADA | Midsummer at Oxford | Balliol College | UK

  • Auditions Seminar | Jeff Johnson | SLC, UT

  • Acting | Anne Cullimore Decker with Plan-B Theatre | SLC, UT

  • General Concepts for Film & Television | Anne Sward Hansen | ASH Productions, UT

  • Acting | Michael Howard | Michael Howard Studios | NYC, NY

DRAMATURGY           

2024 Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon| Pioneer Theatre Company | Director Karen Azenberg

2024 Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy Adapted from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Pioneer Theatre Company | Director Karen Azenberg

2024 The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, Adapted by Ben Power | Pioneer Theatre Company | Director Karen Azenberg

2023 What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck | Pioneer Theatre Company | Director Karen Azenberg

2020 Mary Stuart by Jean Stock Goldstone & John Reich | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Shelley Butler

2019 The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell & Gordon Farrell. Based on the essay/Book by John D’Agata & Jim Fingal | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Wes Grantom

2019 Sweat by Lynn Nottage | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Mary B. Robinson      

2018 Oslo by J.T. Rogers | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Karen Azenberg

2018  Death of a Driver by Will Snyder | SLAC Playwrights' Lab 2018 | Salt Lake Acting Company | Dir. Kareem Fahmy

2017   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Karen Azenberg                    

2016   The Last Ship | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Karen Azenberg                    

2016   An Inspector Calls | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Mary B. Robinson                 

2015   I Hate Hamlet  | Pioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Art Manke

2012   Of Mice and MenPioneer Theatre Company | Dir. Mary B. Robinson