Artist Bios: Kim Mancuso

KIM MANCUSO is the Artistic Director of Pilgrim Theatre, which she co-founded with Kermit Dunkelberg in Poland in 1986. Previously she was director of the International Company of the Second Studio of Wroclaw, Poland. For Pilgrim she has directed most productions including Faust 2002 (USA, Poland), Letters from Sarajevo (featured internationally on a Monitor Radio special report); Guys Dreamin’ (NY Top Ten of 1997); Moon Over Dark Street (Boston, NY); The Tibetan Book of the Dead (or how not to do it again) by Jean-Claude van Itallie, which premiered at the Boston Center for the Arts in August, 1998; The House Not Touched by Death; Gertrude Stein's Look and Long (Smith College); The Life You Save (Laura Harrington) for the Boston Theatre Marathon; and productions for MIT's Shakespeare Ensemble. Her work with Pilgrim Theatre and J-C van Itallie is featured in Susan Letzler Cole's new book, Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company (Routledge 2001). She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and teaches theatre at MIT and Smith College.