Theatre Portfolio
Welcome to Alan Levy's theatre portfolio. Click on a link below to view specific components:
Arts Administrator
Alan Levy has held full-time positions with the following:
- 7000 Gypsies Productions - Executive Producer (2010-present)
- Developing the science-fiction rock musical Starship, in collaboration with Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
- CitiArts, Inc. - President (1996-2008)
- Created three performing arts companies and a community arts school: Figments Dance Co., CitiArts Youth Theatre, CitiArts Youth Dance Ensemble, Stafford Academy of Dance.
Developed plans for an arts-integrated charter school -
daVinci Middle School.
- Hartford Children's Theatre - Founder/Artistic Director (1988-1996)
- 1993 winner of the Winifred Ward Award as the best new children's theatre in the country.
- Youth Theatre Unlimited - Executive Director (1982-1985)
- Provided professional theatre training in the Greater Hartford community. At first, theatre training was limited to area teachers and their students. Theatre artists were sent into schools to instruct teachers in the use of drama as a teaching method and to expose children to performance skills. In the early 80s, YTU began a teen-aged performance company that toured schools and performed at "The Old Place" (the original stage of Hartford Stage Co.)
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Director
Alan Levy has directed and/or produced over 150 productions. The following is a partial list (complete list coming soon. Click on active links to view archived web page):
- Fools - Neil Simon (2009, Trinidad and Tobago)
- Looking Through You (2008, Trinidad and Tobago)
- Pippin - Stephen Schwartz (2006, Coventry CT)
- From Every Mountainside - Max Bush (2005 World Premiere)
- Footloose (2004, Coventry CT)
- Looking Through You (2003, Coventry CT)
- Grease (2004, Coventry CT)
- Selkie - Laurie Brooks Gollobin (1996 Premiere)
- Into The Woods - Sondheim/Lapine (1995, Hartford CT)
- The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About The Shivers - Max Bush (1994 Premiere)
- Imaginary Friend, Laurie Brooks Gollobin (1993, Washington DC)
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Playwright
Alan Levy has writtetn 10 full-length plays. The following is a partial list:
- Starship - Musical, with music/lyrics by Paul Kantner
- Sacrilege - Original play
- The Velveteen Rabbit - Musical, with music/lyrics by John DeNicola
- The Egypt Game - Adaptation
- Alice in Wonderland - Adaptation
- The Secret Garden - Adaptation
- A Wrinkle in Time - Adaptation
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Teacher
Alan Levy has taught hundreds of acting and theatre classes. The following is a partial list (Click on active link to view archived pages):
Alan Levy is also a certified English and Math teacher. Click to view his teaching portfolio.
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