Marina McClure & Deena Selenow, Co-Directors
Marina McClure and Deena Selenow’s directing collaboration began at CalArts under the mentorship of Travis Preston. As storytellers, they sculpt highly visual large and small scale multidisciplinary works with the audience experience at the core. They create immersive performances that probe the edges of humanity, seeking to emancipate the spectator and challenge barriers, prejudices, taboos through content and form. Their work is distinctly physical, rooted in Grotowski, Droznin, and Laban techniques, and they use the physical to access the psychological for both the performers and the audience.
As a directing team, Marina and Deena take a radical address to the creation and presentation of performance. Their collaboration demands great openness and flexibility, as they hone their ideas to deliver a truly shared vision. Relying on their complementary strengths in and outside of the rehearsal room, they challenge each other to constantly raise the bar. Marina and Deena believe that this process generates uniquely imaginative work that can deeply resonate with a wide range of audiences.
Marina McClure (Director) is a 2012 finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. Her work been seen at the New York & Capital Fringe Festivals, REDCAT Studio, The Kennedy Center, Manhattan Theater Source, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and in found spaces and theaters in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, New York, New Hampshire, and South Africa. She produced The Savannah Theatre Project, a four-month program of exchange between American and South African artists, and was the founding Artistic Director of the ensemble theater company,
Odyssey Productions. Marina recently assisted Anne Bogart with SITI Company’s Trojan Women (after Euripides) in Los Angeles, and will assist the New York premiere at BAM this winter. Awards include a General-Campbell Fellowship, FAR Space Artist Residency, and the Gurdin Directing Award. She is an MFA candidate in Directing at CalArts. BA: Dartmouth.
Deena Selenow (Director) was a 2006 – 2009 resident artist with the not for profit arts organization chashama, initiating collaborations with emerging visual, performance and media artists in New York. She was the recipient of a 2006 Baryshnikov Arts Center Multi-Arts Fellowship and a 2009/2010 Emerging Artists of Color Directing Fellowship at New York Theater Workshop. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Theater Directing at CalArts. BFA: NYU.
As a directing team, Marina and Deena take a radical address to the creation and presentation of performance. Their collaboration demands great openness and flexibility, as they hone their ideas to deliver a truly shared vision. Relying on their complementary strengths in and outside of the rehearsal room, they challenge each other to constantly raise the bar. Marina and Deena believe that this process generates uniquely imaginative work that can deeply resonate with a wide range of audiences.
Marina McClure (Director) is a 2012 finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. Her work been seen at the New York & Capital Fringe Festivals, REDCAT Studio, The Kennedy Center, Manhattan Theater Source, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and in found spaces and theaters in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, New York, New Hampshire, and South Africa. She produced The Savannah Theatre Project, a four-month program of exchange between American and South African artists, and was the founding Artistic Director of the ensemble theater company,
Odyssey Productions. Marina recently assisted Anne Bogart with SITI Company’s Trojan Women (after Euripides) in Los Angeles, and will assist the New York premiere at BAM this winter. Awards include a General-Campbell Fellowship, FAR Space Artist Residency, and the Gurdin Directing Award. She is an MFA candidate in Directing at CalArts. BA: Dartmouth.
Deena Selenow (Director) was a 2006 – 2009 resident artist with the not for profit arts organization chashama, initiating collaborations with emerging visual, performance and media artists in New York. She was the recipient of a 2006 Baryshnikov Arts Center Multi-Arts Fellowship and a 2009/2010 Emerging Artists of Color Directing Fellowship at New York Theater Workshop. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Theater Directing at CalArts. BFA: NYU.