Carey Perloff

CAREY PERLOFF is a director, playwright, producer and educator with long tenures as Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater and Classic Stage Company. A Stanford graduate (Classics and Comparative Literature) and Fulbright Fellow (Oxford), Carey has directed dozens of classical plays across America and Canada and is currently developing The Oedipus Cycle with John Douglas Thompson. As a playwright: Vienna, Vienna, Vienna; Edgardo or White Fire; If God Were Blue (Bogliasco 2018); Kinship; Higher; The Fit. As an author: Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater and Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View.

To tackle the Oedipus plays onstage, one has to simultaneously tackle one’s own history, predilections and beliefs. Rehearsing Oedipus will be both a portrait of a director at work and a deeply personal account of her multi-year investigation and staging of Oedipus Tyrannos and Oedipus at Colonus, as she charts the process of analyzing, conceptualizing, casting, designing, and rehearsing a new version of these frighteningly relevant plays while living through the Covid crisis, the racial reckoning, and an ongoing global chaos.