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Resume

Chris Woodworth

Director and Playwright—Geneva, NY— cwoodworth@hws.edu — 315-781-4581

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***Read some of my plays on the New Play Exchange.***

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Professional Directing

  • Constellations — Bartlett Theater (Durham, NC)

  • Art v. Activism: A Domestic Dispute — 24 Hour Capital Region / Berkshires Theatre Project (WAM Theatre)

  • Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays — Paper Lantern Theatre (Greensboro, NC)

  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie —Theatre 232 (Triad Stage/ UNCG Theatre)

  • Almost, Maine —Millbrook Playhouse (Mill Hall, PA)

University Directing

  • Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • From Beyond: Geneva's Unheard Voices — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre and Historic Geneva

  • Supernatural Saunter: The Spirit(s) of William Smith — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre     

  • Metamorphoses (cancelled due to COVID-19) — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre and Geneva Theatre Guild

  • Love/Sick — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • She Kills Monsters — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • Good Kids — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • Alice in Wonderland (Manhattan Project) — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • Radium Girls — Hobart & William Smith Colleges Theatre

  • Polaroid Stories — UNCG Theatre

  • In the Blood — UNCG Theatre

  • The Laramie Project — Lock Haven University

  • Machinal —  Lock Haven University

  • Nickel and Dimed — Lock Haven University

  • Vinegar Tom — Bowling Green State University

  • Tissue — St. Lawrence University

  • American Voices — St. Lawrence University

Community-Based Directing

  • Under the Vanity and The Garden — Smith Opera House (as part of Celebrate The Smith Immersive Theatre Event for 125th anniversary)

  • Circle Mirror Transformation — Geneva Theatre Guild (in association with the HWS Department of Theatre) 

  • The Exonerated (staged reading) — Hobart & William Smith Colleges (in association with the Witness to Innocence Campus Events)

  • From Beyond: Washington St. Cemetery Stories — Geneva Historical Society 

  • And Baby Makes Seven — Headless Sullivan Theatre

  • The Guys — Studio B at the Broach

  • Jane: Abortion and the Underground — UNCG VOX

  • Jane: Abortion and the Underground — Planned Parenthood of Northwest Ohio

  • Gypsy —Geneva Theatre Guild

  • Haiku (Part of Point of View: An Evening of One-Acts)— Geneva Theatre Guild

Youth Theatre and TYA Directing
Youth Theatre and TYA Directing

  • Treasure Island — Bristol Valley Theater

  • Revenge — Bristol Valley Theater

  • Marmalade Gumdrops — Nancy Curvin Playground Players

  • The Pushcart War — Geneva Youth Theatre

  • Patchwork — Nancy Curvin Playground Players

  • Heads and Tales — Nancy Curvin Playground Players

Playwriting

Full Length:​​

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  • Petrichor

    • ​Staged Reading:

      • Mike Sockol New Works Series 2024, Villagers Theatre, Somerset, NJ, May 2024

    • ​Competitions and Development Opportunities:

      • Finalist for 2024 WATERWORKS Festival

      • Shortlist for Epiphanies New Works Festival 2024

      • Semifinalist for 2023 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

      • Semifinalist for 2023 Ashland New Plays Festival

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  • We Are the Volcano

    • Staged Reading:

      • Playwright Showcase, Rochester Community Players, MuCCC—Rochester, NY, October 2024

      • Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, August 2024

    • ​Grant: Individual Artist Grant (Auburn Public Theater Regrants Program, with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature)

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  • Fossenvue                

    • Reading: USDA Forest Service, on-site reading at Fossenvue (Caywood Point, Finger Lakes National Forest), Hector, NY, May 11, 2024

    • Reading: Zonta Club and Geneva Public Library, March 2024

    • Reading: Three Bears Historic Courthouse, November 12, 2022

    • Reading: Women's Rights National Historical Park, April 30, 2022

    • Reading: Historic Geneva, November 2, 2021                                            

    • Syracuse Stage, COLD Read Festival, "Write Here" Playwright, March 2022 (cancelled due to COVID-19)

 

  • ​Medea Kills Her Children

    • Reading: ArtsX, Bowling Green State University, December 2023

    • Reading: Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, November 2023​

    • ​Grant: Individual Artist Grant (Statewide Community Regrant-NYS Council on the Arts)

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  • Born of the Sawdust, a Circus Tragedy for Actors and Aerialists

    • Developmental Readings:

      • Roc City Circus, Rochester, NY, January 2024.

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  • Chicory

    • Readings:

      • Playwrights’ Jam (excerpt), Story House, Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY, May 2025

    • Grant: Individual Artist Grant (Statewide Community Regrant-NYS Council on the Arts)

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  • Wedlack (outdoor, promenade play, inspired by Sonnenburg Mansion and Gardens, Canandaigua, NY)

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Short/One-Acts: Productions and Readings         

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  • The Last Bee

    • Production: Buffalo Quickies #32 / Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY) March 2023

                                                [Commissioned for this event.]

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  • Something Blue         

    • Production: Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival, Center for the Arts Bonita Springs (FL), May 2023 

    • Publication: Stage It! 7: Thirty 10-Minute Plays

    • Reading: PYTCO Playwright Showcase, Penn Yan, NY, October 2024

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  • Making Room and Captain Zygote and the Blastocysts Appearing Live with the Embryonic Orchestra           

    • Production: One-Minute Play Festival / Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY July 2019

 

 

  • Impasse                      

    • Production: One-Minute Play Festival / Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY July 2018

            

  • Slice of Life

    • Reading: Geneva Theatre Guild Playwrights’ Play Readings, Geneva, NY, April 2025.

    • Reading: Wayne Writers’ Guild, Palmyra, NY, March 2025

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  • Moving On

    • Reading: LMC Productions (NYC / LA via Zoom), April 2024.

    • Semifinalist: Inaugural Off-Broad Street Short Play Festival, Gather By the Ghost Light and Le Chat Noir, Augusta, GA, 2024

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  • What to Expect        

    • Reading: LMC Productions (NYC / LA via Zoom), April 2024.

    • Reading: Geneva Theatre Guild Playwrights' Play Readings, April 22-24, 2022

    • Semi-finalist: Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival, Bonita Arts, 2022.

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  •  All That Remains      

    • Reading: Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Culture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, March 2022.

    • Semi-finalist: PAC New Venture Short Play Festival, 2022.

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  • Sure.                         

    • Reading: LMC Productions (NYC / LA via Zoom), April 2024.

    • Reading: First Fridays / The Barrow Group, NYC (Zoom), March 2021

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Other Short/One-Acts:

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Leave You Angry

Take it to the Grave

Moving On

Studying

Overdue

Code Name Astrea

#feedthefire

Little Bully

Packing Light

Location, Location, Location

The Naturals

Weather Away

Melting Ice Caps are Changing the Speed of the Earth’s Rotation and Time Will Never Be the

         Same Again

Just Desserts

Migratory Mo(u)rning Song

Education

 

  • Bowling Green State University, PhD in Theatre, 2005

  • Indiana University, M.A. in Theatre and Drama, 2001

  • St. Lawrence University, B.A. in Speech and Theatre / English Literature, 1999

Affiliations

  • Stage Directors and Choreographers Society - Full Member (2015)

  • Dramatists Guild - Member (2023)

Additional Credentials

Acting Resume available here. Full academic c.v. available upon request.

Training and Professional Development

  • ​PUSH Physical Theatre Summer Intensive (2016, 2017, 2023)

  • LaMaMa Umbria International Directors Symposium (2015, 2019)

  • Directors Lab North, Tarragon Theatre (2015)

  • SITI Summer Theater Workshop (2014)

  • Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (2013)

  • NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance (2012)

  • Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University (2012)

© 2025 Created by Chris Woodworth

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