Adriana Baer
Adriana Baer
Director
For Artists Rep, Adriana has directed Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison, and The Price by Arthur Miller. Other Portland credits include Macbeth (Portland Center Stage), The Language Archive by Julia Cho (Portland Playhouse), Dead Man’s Cell Phone and In the Next Room… or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl, Buried Child and True West by Sam Shepard, and The Road to Mecca and My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard (Profile Theatre, Artistic Director 2012-2015). Regional credits include Woyzeck (Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Direction), The Maids, and No Exit at Cutting Ball Theater (Associate Artistic Director, 2004-2007), and productions in New York including Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seagull, and The Hairy Ape (Columbia Stages) and work at Atlantic Theatre Company Stage 2 and The Acting Company. New play development workshops include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Primary Stages, and The Lark Play Development Center. Adriana has worked with Opera Boston, The Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Circus Center/Pickle Circus, American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Among other institutions, she has taught for University of Portland, Portland State University, Columbia University School of the Arts, The Acting Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Community College, and Boston Children’s Chorus and has lectured as a guest speaker at over two dozen colleges and universities nationwide. She coaches theater artists and public speaking through her coaching company Adriana Baer Creative. BA: Sarah Lawrence College. MFA: Columbia University. Proud member of SDC.