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Cheryl Faver, Founder Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre
Cheryl Faver (Co-adapter, Director) founder, Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, specializes in the work of the 20th century avant-garde, and the development of new theater texts and processes. She has written on Stein and adapted and directed a number of Stein's texts for the stage, including Four Saints in Three Acts (1987), Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1988, 1995), A Play of Not and Now (1990), and Listen to Me (1991). She has directed and adapted plays at Center Stage, Portland Stage, New York Theater Workshop, and New York Stage and Film, among others. In the United States, Faver has been a guest director and frequent lecturer at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Center for Digital Media, Lincoln Center and TCG. Outside of the U.S., she has conducted workshops and lectures in Russia, Korea, and Japan. She also has written and designed one of the only interactive, online multimedia textbooks on the History of Western Drama, a class that she also taught via videoconferencing to students at Binghamton University. She is presently producing Russian and Soviet Theatre Arts and Culture in the Great Utopia, an international distance-learning course with interactive texts being taught by Russian and American scholars on Russian performance 1898-1940.
Faver's pioneering work in the use of computer-based visualization for theater process and performance has been covered in Jane Magazine, Civilization Magazine, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Business Week and Theatre Crafts International, among others. Her article, "Live Performance in the New Media", is featured in Yale's Theater Journal. Her work in multimedia in the performing arts was the subject of IBM's international ad campaign for distance technologies and appeared in 25 magazines in 5 languages. Faver was a 1998 fellow of the Asian Cultural Council and U.S.-Japan Partnership to study Asian arts in Japan and Korea. She holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and has studied drama and language at the University of Giessen in Germany and the Sorbonne in France.
