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Alan Levy has produced over 150 theatre productions at professional, regional and educational theatres across the country during 30 years of arts management experience.  He is the founder and former Artistic Director of Hartford Children’s Theatre, which was awarded the Winifred Ward Award in 1995. 

Levy’s work has appeared on the stages of the Kennedy Center for the Arts (Washington, DC), Act One Theatre (New Haven, CT), ISPS (Trinidad + Tobago), University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) and Hartford Children’s Theatre (Hartford, CT).  He is an avid supporter of the new work of living playwrights and has served as a reader, adjudicator, and director for the AATE New Plays Project, the IUPUI National Playwriting Competition and the Kennedy Center’s New/Visions/New Voices Festival.

Amongst his numerous directing credits, Levy presented the premieres of The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers and From Every Mountainside by Max Bush, and Selkie by Laurie Brooks Gollobin. 

Writing credits include adaptations of The Secret Garden, A Wrinkle in Time, The Egypt Game, a musical adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit featuring music and lyrics by John DeNicola, the musical Starship Jefferson featuring the music of Paul Kantner, and the original drama, Sacrilege.

 

 

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