Bart DeLorenzo is the founding artistic director of the Evidence Room theater in Los Angeles where he has directed many local and world premieres including plays by David Greenspan, Naomi Wallace, Martin Crimp, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Kelly Stuart, David Edgar, Edward Bond, and his own adaptation of Charles Dickens. His recent work with the company includes Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play, Sharr White's Annapurna (revived Off-Broadway with The New Group),Chekhov's Ivanov, Len Jenkin's Margo Veil, and Adam Bock's The Receptionist, all produced with the Odyssey Theater. Recent LA productions include the world premieres of Steven Drukman’s Death of the Author and Donald Margulies’s Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Playhouse; Carla Ching’s Fast Company, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Doctor Cerberus, and Donald Margulies’s Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at South Coast Repertory; Justin Tanner’s Day Drinkers at the Odyssey and the constantly revived Voice Lessons which originated at the Zephyr. Other recent directing includes Charlayne Woodard's The Night Watcher at Washington’s Studio Theatre, Shakespeare's Cymbeline at A Noise Within, Karen Zacarias's Legacy of Light and Mark Brown's Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Play House, King Lear with LA’s Antaeus Company, Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man’s Cell Phone at South Coast Rep, Michael Sargent's The Projectionist at the Kirk Douglas Theatre CTG, Charles Mee's bobrauschenbergamerica with TheSpyAnts at Inside the Ford, and Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Odyssey.He is a graduate of Yale University and the American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard. He is on the faculty at CalArts. For his work, he has received four LA Drama Critics Circle Awards (including this past year’s Milton Katselas Award for career achievement), six LA Weekly awards, three Backstage Garlands, and the Alan Schneider Director Award. 
 
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