GIDEON LESTER

Gideon Lester is the A.R.T.'s Acting Artistic Director. He was Associate Artistic Director from 2002 until 2006, and before that served as Resident Dramaturg for five years. His recent translations include Marivaux’s Island of Slaves (directed by Robert Woodruff at the A.R.T. in 2006) and La Dispute, Brecht’s Mother Courage, Büchner’s Woyzeck, and two texts by the French playwright Michel Vinaver, King and Overboard. His play Amerika or the Disappearance, adapted from Franz Kafka’s first novel, was staged at the A.R.T. in 2005, directed by Dominique Serrand. His other adaptations include Wings of Desire (A.R.T. and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, 2006), Anne Frank and Enter the Actress, a one-woman show that he devised for Claire Bloom. Born in London in 1972, Gideon studied English Literature at Oxford University. In 1995 he came to the States on a Fulbright grant and Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship to study dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. He teaches dramaturgy at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute and playwriting at Harvard.

• Listen to a Here and Now interview and read a Boston Globe article, both coinciding with Amerika.
• Gideon Lester's e-mail address is gideon_lester@harvard.edu.

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