Who's
Who
BRIAN B.
CROWE (Director of Education) is in his
twelfth season with the company. Directing credits include
Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, The
Tempest and The Comedy of Errors on the Main
Stage, The Taming of the Shrew on the Outdoor Stage
and the 1999 world premiere of his original script, Wonderland
(...And What Was Found There) on the Other Stage. The
Star-Ledger called Mr. Crowe "one of the state's most
ingenious directors" for his work on Love's Labour's
Lost and named him Best Director of a Drama (Julius
Caesar and Wonderland)as well as one of three
"theatre artists to look for in the new millennium"
for his work on Wonderland. He has also directed
the Shakespeare LIVE! touring productions of As You Like
It, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, The
Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello
and The Tempest. Other directing credits include
Red Herring and A Perfect Ganesh at 12 Miles
West; The Tempest (DayTony recipient), Noises
Off, the Midwest regional premiere of The Beauty
Queen of Leenane and Patient A with The Human
Race Theatre Company, where he is currently a resident artist;
Somewhere in Between and Children of a Lesser
God at Dayton Playhouse; The Destiny of Me for
The Act-Up Theatre Festival; and Bent. Mr. Crowe
has also directed The Human Race educational touring productions
of Nevermore, his original piece based on the writings
and mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe; Romeo and Juliet
and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He received B.F.A.
degrees in directing and acting from Wright State University
, and was a Fellow at the 2000 International Salzburg Shakespeare
Seminar. This season, Mr. Crowe will direct A Midsummer
Night's Dream for the Outdoor Stage and Blood &
Roses on the Main Stage.
JAMIE BRINK-GRANT
(Associate Director of Education) is in his fifth
season with the company. He administers The Theatre's numerous
education and outreach programs, including the Shakespeare
LIVE! educational touring company, and teaches text analysis
and monologue workshops for young people throughout the region.
He helped develop The Theatre's acclaimed professional development
institute for teachers, ShakeFest, which he has coordinated
since its inception in 2003. Previously, he was associate
education director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence,
Rhode Island. Jamie has also worked as a freelance lighting
designer for several professional theatre and dance companies.
He received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis,
where he studied English and theatre, concentrating on the
drama of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
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