“Life is Theatre. Theater is life. If we’re showing what life is, can be, we must do theatre.”
~ Fefu and her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes
About
How can Theater reveal truths about our world if not all of the world is represented onstage?
I direct complicated, mysterious, thrilling, charming narratives that break open biases & uplift traditionally devalued stories.
I value joy in the rehearsal room, cultivate each performer’s unique point of view, and find flaws in live performance beautiful.
I passionately uncover and develop new works to reclaim the canon.
Theater has the power to change ideas & values, reveal experiences and through our stories, expose a raw nerve buried inside ourselves.
MILWAUKEE, WI >>> CHICAGO, IL
Bio
Mallory is currently Associate Artistic Director for Seven Devils New Play Foundry and was formerly Renaissance Theaterworks’ Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development where she founded and ran Br!NK; a new play festival for Midwestern women playwrights. Select directing credits: All of the Everything, Lucky Numbers (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival), Anne of Green Gables (Constellation Stage+Screen), The Thanksgiving Play, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Ring Round the Moon, The How and the Why, Underbelly, Fefu and Her Friends, The Book of Will (The Theatre School), Sex with Strangers, The Drowning Girls, The Understudy (Renaissance Theaterworks), The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (Splinter Group), These Shining Lives (Umbrella Group), and many new works in different stages of development and production.
EDUCATION
MFA in Directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
BA in Theatre and Business from Cardinal Stritch University