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
A.R.T./New York Senior Manager of Grants and Member Engagement
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
You Must Wear a Hat | The Interstitial |Theaterlab
ward by Jarek Pastor| The Interstitial |Court Square Theatre
In the Castle of Eternal Sunset: A Module for Ten 0th Level Characters by Charles Green | The Interstitial | Brick Aux
Denial by Eric Marlin | The Interstitial | Dark Nights Reading Series at A.R.T./New York
Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, co-directed with Katie Pearl | Wesleyan University
String book by Sarah Hammond, music by Adam Gwon | University of Iowa | Movement Director
Proximity Play by Hallie Palladino | Prop Thtr
The Hunters & All the Hunted by Leigh M. Marshall| Virtual Development Workshop
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 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 C. 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
Legally Blonde by Heather Hach, music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, dir. Emily Edwards, NJIT 2024
BLKS by Aziza Barnes, dir. Lisa Strum | University of Iowa 2022
String, book by Sarah Hammond, music by Adam Gwon, dir. Eric Forsythe | University of Iowa 2022
Gwenevere by Isaiah Reaves, dir. Caroline S. Clay | University of Iowa
England’s Splendid Daughters, written and directed by Ann Kreitman | University of Iowa Directors' Festival
Smile Medicine by Dakota Parobek, dir. Paul Kalina | University of Iowa 2021
Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis, dir. Mary Beth Easley | University of Iowa 2021
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, dir. by Lila Rachel Becker | University of Iowa 2020
Hit the Wall by Ike Holter, Associate Intimacy Director to Tonia Sina| University of Iowa 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
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Associate Member
A.R.T./New York Senior Manager of Grants and Member Engagement
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
You Must Wear a Hat | The Interstitial |Theaterlab
ward by Jarek Pastor| The Interstitial |Court Square Theatre
In the Castle of Eternal Sunset: A Module for Ten 0th Level Characters by Charles Green | The Interstitial | Brick Aux
Denial by Eric Marlin | The Interstitial | Dark Nights Reading Series at A.R.T./New York
Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, co-directed with Katie Pearl | Wesleyan University
String book by Sarah Hammond, music by Adam Gwon | University of Iowa | Movement Director
Proximity Play by Hallie Palladino | Prop Thtr
The Hunters & All the Hunted by Leigh M. Marshall| Virtual Development Workshop
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 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 C. 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
Legally Blonde by Heather Hach, music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, dir. Emily Edwards, NJIT 2024
BLKS by Aziza Barnes, dir. Lisa Strum | University of Iowa 2022
String, book by Sarah Hammond, music by Adam Gwon, dir. Eric Forsythe | University of Iowa 2022
Gwenevere by Isaiah Reaves, dir. Caroline S. Clay | University of Iowa
England’s Splendid Daughters, written and directed by Ann Kreitman | University of Iowa Directors' Festival
Smile Medicine by Dakota Parobek, dir. Paul Kalina | University of Iowa 2021
Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis, dir. Mary Beth Easley | University of Iowa 2021
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, dir. by Lila Rachel Becker | University of Iowa 2020
Hit the Wall by Ike Holter, Associate Intimacy Director to Tonia Sina| University of Iowa 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