ERICA WRAY
stage director. movement director. intimacy choreography.
stage director. movement director. intimacy choreography.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Associate Member
The Actors Gymnasium Grant Manager
Great River Shakespeare Festival Assistant to Artistic Director, Doug Scholz-Carlson
What Happens Poets Theatre Festival Founder
Second City Faculty
Knife & Fork Co-Founder
Blank Line Collective Co-Artistic Director
Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2006
Chicago Directors Lab 2005
DIRECTING
Still Life by Valerie Muensterman | Iowa New Play Festival 2021
The Effect by Lucy Prebble | The Hippodrome Theatre 2021
three sisters I never had by Eric Marlin | The Healthy Oyster Collective 2021
, his wife by Courtney Meaker | Virtual Workshop| Playwrights' Center 2021
Colic by SP O'Brien | Virtual Staged Reading 2020
Marat's Dead* by Leigh M. Marshall | University of Iowa Workshop 2020
Virginia Woolf's Orlando by Sarah Ruhl | University of Iowa Mainstage 2019
AirSpace* by Eric Marlin | Workshop 2019
P o l a r i s (a tragedy expansion pack)* by Charles Green | Iowa New Play Festival 2019
The Maids by Jean Genet in a new version by Benedict Andrews & Andrew Upton | Alan MacVey Theatre 2019
You Must Wear a Hat* by Courtney Meaker | University of Iowa Workshop 2018
Love Bird* by K.T. Peterson| Alan MacVey Theatre 2018
Capacity for Curiosity* by Brian Pastor |CityLit Theater 2018
Shoe* by Marisela Treviño Orta| Iowa New Play Festival 2018
Minor Flood, Major Constellation by Lisa Schlesinger| Poets Theatre Festival 2018
Twilight Bowl* by Rebecca Gilman | Alan MacVey Theatre, Big Ten Consortium 2017
The Tempest by William Shakespeare | Governors State University Mainstage 2017
Gender Breakdown* by Dani Bryant | Collaboraction 2017
Hotel by Caryl Churchill | Workshop Production 2016
Spanx You Very Much* by Dani Bryant | Collaboraction 2016
Persephone* by Genevieve Lally-Knuth | CityLit Theatre 2015
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood | The Poetry Foundation 2015
The Last Meal Man* by Dani Bryant | Collaboraction 2012
Mythologies by David Lehman | Lost Geneva Project 2012
Disgrace by John O'Keefe | Blank Line Collective 2010
The Helpless Doorknob by Edward Gorey | Blank Line Collective 2009
The Fete (a reimagined Fete de la Nuit by Charles Mee) | Blank Line Collective 2008
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
The Servant of Two Masters* by Carlo Goldoni, adapted & directed by Beth Gardiner | Great River Shakespeare Festival 2019
Henry V by William Shakespeare co-directed by Tarah Flanagan & Michael Fitzpatrick | Great River Shakespeare Festival 2019
INTIMACY DIRECTION
Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis, dir. Mary Beth Easley | University of Iowa Mainstage 2021
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, dir. by Lila Rachel Becker | University of Iowa Mainstage 2020
Hit the Wall by Ike Holter, Associate Intimacy Director to Tonia Sina| University of Iowa Mainstage 2020
Sweat by Lynn Nottage, dir. Sarah Lacy Hamilton | University of Iowa 2019
Laterality* by Leigh M. Marshall, dir. Lila Rachel Becker | University of Iowa 2019
Really by Jackie Sibblies Drury, dir. Bries Vannon | University of Iowa 2018
REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. by Alice Birch, dir. Lila Becker | University of Iowa 2018
Why is this Night Different?* by Aja Niseson, dir. Sarah Lacy Hamilton | University of Iowa 2018
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, dir. Carol MacVey| University of Iowa 2018
EDUCATION
University of Iowa, MFA Directing, 2020
Columbia College Chicago, Graduate Laban Certificate of Movement Analysis, GL-CMA
University of North Texas, BA in Theatre Arts, concentration in Directing
University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College, Shakespeare focused Study Abroad
*new play
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Associate Member
The Actors Gymnasium Grant Manager
Great River Shakespeare Festival Assistant to Artistic Director, Doug Scholz-Carlson
What Happens Poets Theatre Festival Founder
Second City Faculty
Knife & Fork Co-Founder
Blank Line Collective Co-Artistic Director
Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2006
Chicago Directors Lab 2005
DIRECTING
Still Life by Valerie Muensterman | Iowa New Play Festival 2021
The Effect by Lucy Prebble | The Hippodrome Theatre 2021
three sisters I never had by Eric Marlin | The Healthy Oyster Collective 2021
, his wife by Courtney Meaker | Virtual Workshop| Playwrights' Center 2021
Colic by SP O'Brien | Virtual Staged Reading 2020
Marat's Dead* by Leigh M. Marshall | University of Iowa Workshop 2020
Virginia Woolf's Orlando by Sarah Ruhl | University of Iowa Mainstage 2019
AirSpace* by Eric Marlin | Workshop 2019
P o l a r i s (a tragedy expansion pack)* by Charles Green | Iowa New Play Festival 2019
The Maids by Jean Genet in a new version by Benedict Andrews & Andrew Upton | Alan MacVey Theatre 2019
You Must Wear a Hat* by Courtney Meaker | University of Iowa Workshop 2018
Love Bird* by K.T. Peterson| Alan MacVey Theatre 2018
Capacity for Curiosity* by Brian Pastor |CityLit Theater 2018
Shoe* by Marisela Treviño Orta| Iowa New Play Festival 2018
Minor Flood, Major Constellation by Lisa Schlesinger| Poets Theatre Festival 2018
Twilight Bowl* by Rebecca Gilman | Alan MacVey Theatre, Big Ten Consortium 2017
The Tempest by William Shakespeare | Governors State University Mainstage 2017
Gender Breakdown* by Dani Bryant | Collaboraction 2017
Hotel by Caryl Churchill | Workshop Production 2016
Spanx You Very Much* by Dani Bryant | Collaboraction 2016
Persephone* by Genevieve Lally-Knuth | CityLit Theatre 2015
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood | The Poetry Foundation 2015
The Last Meal Man* by Dani Bryant | Collaboraction 2012
Mythologies by David Lehman | Lost Geneva Project 2012
Disgrace by John O'Keefe | Blank Line Collective 2010
The Helpless Doorknob by Edward Gorey | Blank Line Collective 2009
The Fete (a reimagined Fete de la Nuit by Charles Mee) | Blank Line Collective 2008
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
The Servant of Two Masters* by Carlo Goldoni, adapted & directed by Beth Gardiner | Great River Shakespeare Festival 2019
Henry V by William Shakespeare co-directed by Tarah Flanagan & Michael Fitzpatrick | Great River Shakespeare Festival 2019
INTIMACY DIRECTION
Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis, dir. Mary Beth Easley | University of Iowa Mainstage 2021
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, dir. by Lila Rachel Becker | University of Iowa Mainstage 2020
Hit the Wall by Ike Holter, Associate Intimacy Director to Tonia Sina| University of Iowa Mainstage 2020
Sweat by Lynn Nottage, dir. Sarah Lacy Hamilton | University of Iowa 2019
Laterality* by Leigh M. Marshall, dir. Lila Rachel Becker | University of Iowa 2019
Really by Jackie Sibblies Drury, dir. Bries Vannon | University of Iowa 2018
REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. by Alice Birch, dir. Lila Becker | University of Iowa 2018
Why is this Night Different?* by Aja Niseson, dir. Sarah Lacy Hamilton | University of Iowa 2018
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, dir. Carol MacVey| University of Iowa 2018
EDUCATION
University of Iowa, MFA Directing, 2020
Columbia College Chicago, Graduate Laban Certificate of Movement Analysis, GL-CMA
University of North Texas, BA in Theatre Arts, concentration in Directing
University of Leeds, Bretton Hall College, Shakespeare focused Study Abroad
*new play