BRANDON IVIE

Director / Producer / Dramaturg

NEWS: Lizard Boy nominated for

three Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical

CURRENT:

Lizard Boy by Justin Huertas

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Associate Artistic Director, Village Theatre

RECENT:

Alone and Alive by Joel Waggoner

Williamstown Theatre Festival

About

BRANDON IVIE

Director / Producer / Dramaturg

BRANDON IVIE (he/him) is a New York/Seattle-based director and producer whose specialty in developing new work has taken him to Broadway, across the country and around the world. He developed and directed Justin Huertas' Lizard Boy which recently had it's NYC premiere Off-Broadway in 2023 and received three Drama Desk nominations including Best Musical. He has directed at such Tony-winning theaters as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Paper Mill Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Goodspeed Musicals, in NYC at The Public Theatre/Joe's Pub, HERE Arts Center, Musical Theatre Factory and Prospect Theatre, as well as internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Hope Mill Theatre, and at such colleges as NYU, Pace University, Ohio Northern University, and University of Washington. He is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Village Theatre in Seattle, creative producing their mainstage season of plays and musicals, and spearheading their expansive new works program, is the Gregory Award-winning Founding Artistic Director of Contemporary Classics, and spent four seasons on the artistic staff at The 5th Avenue Theatre. He has directed or developed work by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt, Michael R. Jackson, Frank Wildhorn, Rinne Groff, Zoe Sarnak, Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis, Ryan Scott Oliver, Hunter Foster, Adam Gwon, Sarah Hammond, Michael Kooman, Christopher Dimond, Michelle Elliott, Danny Larsen, David Darrow, Will Van Dyke, Josh Halloway, Emily Kaczmerak, Cheeyang Ng, Khiyon Hursey, Kit Yan, Melissa Li, Joel Waggoner, and many others. Drama League Directing Fellow, Charles Abbott Directing Fellowship, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. UW School of Drama.

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DIRECTING REEL

LIZARD BOY

WORLD PREMIERE Off-Broadway, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Edingburgh Fringe Festival, etc.

THIS BITTER EARTH

SEATTLE PREMIERE Seattle Public Theater

THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNES

WORLD PREMIERE Village Theatre

JASPER IN DEADLAND

SEATTLE PREMIERE The 5th Avenue Theatre

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Village Theatre

ALONE & ALIVE

Williamstown Theatre Festival

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WORLD PREMIERE Village Theatre

CINDERELLA

The 5th Avenue Theatre

A CHRISTMAS STORY

Paper Mill Playhouse/The 5th Avenue Theatre

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PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES

Village Theatre

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Village Theatre

GODSPELL

Pace University

JASPER IN DEADLAND

WORLD PREMIERE Off-Broadway/Prospect Theater Company

DEVELOPMENTAL PRODUCTION Village Theatre

THE WHO'S TOMMY

University of Washington

THE YELLOW WOOD

WORLD PREMIERE Contemporary Classics

RAZIA'S SHADOW

The Public Theater/Joe's Pub

NEXT TO NORMAL

SEATTLE PREMIERE Contemporary Classics

PRODUCING

Brandon is currently the Associate Artistic Director at Village Theatre, a $13+ million company just outside Seattle. He produces the mainstage season of plays and musicals including recent productions of Ken Ludwig's Sherwood, Sense & Sensibility, Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Fantasticks, Hello, Dolly!, Beautiful, Little Shop of Horrors and the world premiere of How to Break.

As head of Village's new works program, he has produced 10 developmental productions and four world premieres with other shows going on to receive further development and premieres at The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Seattle Rep and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. He produces the annual Festival of New Musicals, and is creator of three groundbreaking initiatives: The Beta Series (a second-stage season of developmental productions geared towards maximum flexibility with no pressures of critical success), the Writers Residency (week-long writer retreats for early stage development), and At The Table (a diversity and inclusion initiative to give New York-based development support to underrepresented writers).

As the Gregory Award-winning Artistic Director of Contemporary Classics, a Seattle-based musical theatre company dedicated to modern musicals, he produced Seattle premieres of The Last Five Years, john & jen, A New Brain, Zanna, Don't!, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Next to Normal, the world premiere of The Yellow Wood, numerous concerts, and the popular New Voices songwriter showcase series giving early voice to such prolific writers as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Michael R. Jackson, Joe Iconis, Zoe Sarnak, Ryan Scott Oliver, Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, and many more.

For four seasons he was on the artistic staff at The 5th Avenue Theatre as Assistant to the Artistic Director, Casting Director (casting pre-Broadway runs of A Christmas Story, Catch Me If You Can, SHREK, Aladdin, and Memphis), and Artistic Projects Manager producing and directing events and touring programming for the theatre.