2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
Since 2000, the Lab has proven to be hugely successful and draws artists from around the United States and internationally. GUEST ARTISTS have included Actors, Artistic Directors, Critics, Dramaturgs, Designers, Directors, Actors Equity, Theatre LA, Musicians, and Writers. Previous years sessions addressed issues such as producing theatre, working with writers and dramaturgs, the relationship between actors and directors, movement, design and concerns and issues specific to Los Angeles Theater.
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THEMES & TEXTS
2008 | "Back to Basics", theme | "Everyman", text
2000 Producing and Production All My Sons
2001 Plays and Playwrights King Lear
2002 Actors and Process Twelfth Night
2003 Creators and Collaborators Our Town
2004 Myth, Music and Magic Peter Pan
2005 Style and Substance MacBeth
2006 Community and Connection Antigone
2007 Beyond Boundaries Tempest
2008 Back to Basics Everyman
2009 The Future of American Theatre The Bacchae
2010 The Balancing Act Measure For Measure
2011 Exploring the Bigger Picture The Good Woman of Szechuan
2012 ?
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Ernest Figueroa & Anne Cattaneo describe the origins of the Lab
The Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, initiated as a pilot project in 1994 in New York, was designed as an interactive forum to engage emerging directors in an intensive study of their craft and to foster collaborative relationships among a community of artists. Customarily, theatre has been acknowledged first and foremost as a writer’s medium. Writing workshops and readings abound, offering a durable arena in which they can develop their work. Directors, however, are at a distinct disadvantage. Recognizing the absence of a program that allows young directors to cultivate their skills, Lincoln Center Theater established the Lab, a series of workshops, seminars, readings, and productions that enable participants to learn and grow as artists and working professionals. Each spring some one hundred directors representing a broad cross-section of backgrounds are invited to examine ideas about their professions and discuss their roles in the theater. In its first year, the Lab attracted artists living and working in New York City. Yet by the second year, nearly one quarter of the applicants traveled in from other cities. Since then, this trend has continued and the Lab now has members from across the country, as well as from Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, India and others.
In April 2000, five alumni of the New York Lab (Nick D’Abruzzo, Ernest Figueroa, Olivia Honegger, Kappy Kilburn & Andrew Sachs) came together with the help of Lincoln Center Theater’s Anne Cattaneo and organized the West Coast extension of the Lab. Two of those original five continue to make up THE STEERING COMMITTEE today. In 2008 Brendon Fox was invited to join, 2009 saw both the tenth year of the Lab and the addition of Jessica Bard to the Steering Committee; this year Che’Rae Adams & Cindy Marie Jenkins also joined.
The lab is sponsored by the generous support of 
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