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Liz Diamond Biography ((?)-)

Married; husband's name, Ralph. Career: Director. Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT, assistant professor of directing, 1993--; Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, resident director; New Dramatists, New York City, resident director; the Women's Project, artistic associate. Awards, Honors:Obie Award, outstanding direction, 1990, for Imperceptible Mutabilities inthe Third Kingdom; Connecticut Critics Circle Award, outstanding direction, for Saint Joan of the Stockyards; other Obie Awards and Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. Addresses: Office: Yale School of Drama, P.O.Box 208325, New Haven, CT 06520-8325.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Director

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Work
• Director, Unless Otherwise Noted
• (As Elizabeth Diamond) Stage manager, Welded, Horace Mann Theatre,New York City, 1981
• (As Elizabeth Diamond) Assistant to the director, Mass Appeal, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1981-82
• Assistant to the director, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, Manhattan Theatre Club Downstage, New York City, 1982
• Assistant director, Breakfast Conversations in Miami, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1984
• "War on the Third Floor," The New Directors Project, Perry StreetTheatre, New York City, 1984
• Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code, American Place Theatre, 1985
• Fizzles, Performance Space 122, New York City, 1985
• How to Say Goodbye, Vineyard Theatre, New York City, 1986
• Angel Face, BACA Downtown, New York City, 1987
• The Hypothesis, La MaMa, Etc., New York City, 1987
• The Dispute, New Theatre of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York City, 1988
• The Cezanne Syndrome, Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc., Greenwich House, New York City, 1989
• Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, New York City, 1989
• Hamlet's Ghosts Perform Hamlet, Home for Contemporary Theatre, NewYork City, 1989
• Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Portland Stage Company, Portland, ME, 1989
• The Island, Portland Stage Company, 1989
• A Man's Man, Portland Stage Company, 1990
• Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, New City Theatre,Seattle, WA, 1991
• The Good Person of Sichuan, Juilliard School, New York City, 1991
• Betting on the Dust Commander, Theatre Row Theatre, New York City,1991
• The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1991-92
• Dream of a Common Language, the Women's Project, Judith Anderson Theatre, New York City, 1992
• (With Douglas Hughes) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (also known asJulius Caesar), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA, 1992-93
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1992-93
• The America Play, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1993-94
• School for Wives, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1994
• Le bourgeois avant garde, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1994
• Antigone in New York, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1994-95
• Directed Phaedra, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge and Boston, MA; also staged productions of The Cure at Troy, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and The Skin of Our Teeth, all at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Also worked on the production of the musical Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, produced in Utah.
• WRITINGS
• Adaptor of Stage Plays with Ryan Cutrona
• Fizzles, Performance Space 122, 1985
• Translator of Stage Plays
• (As Elizabeth Diamond) Pavel Kohout, "War on the Third Floor," The NewDirectors Project, Perry Street Theatre, 1984

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• American Theatre, May 1992, pp. 38-40.
• Drama Review, fall, 1995, pp. 56-75.*