Biography
of ALLEN NAUSE
featured
in "BEETHOVEN UNLIMITED" Concert
Saturday, October 2, 2004
at 8:00 pm AND
Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 3:00 pm, Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
ALLEN
NAUSE is currently the Artistic
Director of the Artists
Repertory Theatre. He came to Oregon in 1975 as an actor with the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival.
He
joined A.R.T. as the company's first aristic director in 1989 and has has directed
many of its most popular productions, including Appalachian Ebeneezer, Touch,
Killer Joe, The Crucible, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Raisin in the Sun,
Three Days of Rain, Incorruptible, A Delicate Balance, Amazing Grace, Beast
on the Moon, Fortinbras, A Perfect Ganesh, A Pirate's Lullaby, A Taste of Honey,
The Diary of Anne Frank, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and A Long Day's Journey
Into Night. He also has directed Our Town with Mahesh Dattani in Bangalore,
India; The Foreigner for Portland Repertory Theater; Tons of Money and Absent
Friends for Portland Civic Theatre; Noises Off for Oregon Shakespeare Festival
and Beirut for triangle! Productions.
Under
his artistic leadership, A.R.T. has been selected this year by the National
Endowment for the Arts as one of only six theater companies nationally to participate
in their "Shakespeare in American Communites" program, the largest-ever
tour of Shakespeare in the U.S. Last fall, he traveled to Hungary through a
Theater Communication Group international travel grant seeking playwrights and
directors for future collaborations with A.R.T.
Allen
has taught theater arts at Lewis & Clark College, Portland State University,
and University of Portland. In 1994, Allen has traveled extensively through
Asia, Africa and the Middle East, representing American regional theater in
the U.S.I.A. Arts in America Tour, directing A Journey Through American Comedy.
In 2000, Allen traveled to Vietnam and co-directed a bilingual, bicultural production
of A Midsummer Night's Dream and a Vietnamese language production of The Glass
Menagerie as part of the Vietnam America Theatre Exchange.
As
an actor, Allen has performed at many Northwest theaters, including Artists
Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Portland Repertory Theater, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Tacoma Actors Guild, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Empty
Space Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre and Intiman Theatre. He appeared in the
feature films Frances, The Runner Stumbles, and Gathering Evidence and directed
the film Zig Zag. He has also directed and acted for the Oregon Symphony's "Nerve
Endings" series.
