Directing

Come From Away at Diamond Head Theater, Honolulu, HI photo cred: Brandon Miyagi

MISSION: To inspire collaboration under a collective vision serving the material, the audience, and artists involved. I'm drawn to stories that illuminate hope in darkness. I direct musical, nonmusical, and devised/generative works for youth and adults.

ARTISTIC DIRECTING:
CYT North Idaho Artistic Director: Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Annie, Wizard of Oz
ENROOT Theatre Project in partnership with Taproot Theater
ONE ACT AT A TIME for foundry10/Penguin Productions

DIRECTOR SELECTED CREDITS:
COME FROM AWAY at Diamond Head Theater
OLIVER! at Village Theater Kidstage
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Village Theater Kidstage
HEAR MY VOICE at Taproot Isaac Studio
GODSPELL at The Black Box Theater
JAKES WOMEN at The Black Box Theater
THE LAST FIVE YEARS at The Black Box Theater
THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER at Hangar Theater Lab Company
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER at Yeager Hall
MACBETH in SHAKES LOVERS at Stone Soup Theater
HEAR MY SONG at foundry10
WILLY WONKA...FACTORY at Salmon Bay Theater
COME INTO THE GARDEN MAUDE at The Black Box Theater
THE GREAT DIVORCE at Calvary The Hill
8 1/2 MINUTES at foundry10
SHELTERED at Fair Play Festival
OPERA SHOWCASE at Seattle Opera Youth

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SELECTIONS:
ASSASSINS dir. Sara Pace at The Black Box Theater
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK dir. Chantal P. at Hangar Theater
GOODNIGHT MOON dir. Chantal Pavageaux at Hangar Theater

OTHER RELATED SELECTIONS:
CHILDREN OF EDEN stage manager Elon Faculty's Production
17th OF JULY fight choreographer Black Box, NC
LITTLE WOMEN fight choreographer
STEPPING STONES playwright/director Eclectic Theater
81/2 MINUTES playwright/director foundry10
3 DEVISED PLAYS playwright/director Village Theater Kidstage

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Directing/Choreographing Come From Away at DHT

Latest Director Bio: Chelsea LeValley (Director/Choreographer): Chelsea is a bi-coastal actor, director, educator, whose journey with Come From Away began with the original Broadway cast as the show was being built still in Seattle, WA, before later joining the North American Broadway National Tour performing four roles and leading rehearsals, maintaining the show as Dance Captain/Standby. Prior to tour and a couple of years in Oahu, she served the PNW theater community as a freelance actor, director, and educator while developing a dramatic arts program for a research-based arts organization, foundry10, producing and directing shows including helping artists collaborate on writing new musicals, doing social justice theater around Washington state, and speaking at national and international conferences on the research and impact of theater arts, resulting in putting her org on the map in the greater Seattle area. As a freelance artist Chelsea has also worked in NYC and at theaters across the country and is currently the Artistic Director for CYT North Idaho where she leads a 7 show-season and next up is directing Anastasia. Some favorite directing credits include: Godspell, Jake’s Women, The Last Five Years, Oliver!, Speak Truth To Power, This is What They Tell Me, Assassins, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, The Day It Rained Forever, Willy Wonka. She’s passionate about new works, and has produced new works at Green Room 42, Pearl Studios, developing several new works with her small start-up theater company ENROOT, and directed a dozen new works including a few of her own! BFA in Music Theater from Elon University, Leadership Fellow, and Seattle Children’s Theater and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Certificate Graduate. Chelsea is passionate about servant leadership, cultivating collaborative environments, and fostering community in theater. Thank you for supporting live theater in Oahu! www.chelsealevalley.com

I'm passionate about servant leadership, cultivating collaborative environments for creative artists to express themselves through the text and discover what the moment wants beat by beat. I'm an actor's director with an obsession with tech elements storytelling. Having worked as a production manager and artistic director, I'm passionate about the collaboration across departments, and empowering others to do their best work so we can collectively serve the story and our audience.

I use a range of acting techniques including Viewpoints, Meisner, Stanislavski, Utah Hagen, and Chekhov to communicate with actors of all ages. I seek to create a culture where all voices are heard and we can get behind a common vision of how to bring the text to life. I'm passionate about collaboration and getting out of the way of the text and others' artistry. I direct classical to contemporary theater and musicals. I devise work, write material, and stage heightened text, contemporary drama, comedies, musicals, movement, and unarmed/broadsword/rapier fights. I try to find a measure of hope in every story.

My relationship with directing started when I was studying leadership while earning my BFA in Music Theater at Elon University. By the time I graduated I had directed five large scale productions on the MainStage, revived the student-works movement at school, adapted and directed a new play with the human rights course and theater department, taken the directing and design majors curriculum, wrote my senior thesis on directing and making your own work, and booked a gig as an assistant director to a professional residency theater company in upstate NY where they'd let me direct my own works for the EMC company members. Directing felt like a natural fit. It was the position where I could use all of my interests/experience including my work as a performer, teacher, stage manager, playwright/adaptor, fight choreographer, scenic designer and dramaturg.

Directing Production Photos

COME FROM AWAY at Diamond Head Theater in Honolulu, HI, photos: Brandon Miyagi