BRANDON IVIE

Director / Producer / Dramaturg

NEWS:

Come From Away wins Best Musical and Best Director at Seattle's Gregory Awards

Lizard Boy nominated for

three Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical

CURRENT:

Artistic Producer, Center Theatre Group

RECENT:

Come From Away, Seattle Rep

Lizard Boy by Justin Huertas, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Alone and Alive by Joel Waggoner,

Williamstown Theatre Festival

About

BRANDON IVIE

Director / Producer / Dramaturg

BRANDON IVIE (he/him) is an LA-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 received three Drama Desk nominations including Best Musical. He has directed at such theaters as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Paper Mill Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Goodspeed Musicals, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Barrington Stage, in NYC at Ars Nova, 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. He is currently the Artistic Producer at Center Theatre Group, which oversees the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre. He is formerly Associate Artistic Director of Village Theatre in Seattle, overseeing one of the country's largest new musical development programs, Casting Director and Artistic Project Manager at The 5th Avenue Theatre, and the Gregory Award-winning Founding Artistic Director of Contemporary Classics. He has directed or developed work by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt, Michael R. Jackson, Frank Wildhorn, Rinne Groff, Will Aronson, Zoe Sarnak, Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis, Zack Zadek, Sammi Cannold, Ryan Scott Oliver, Hunter Foster, Adam Gwon, Sarah Hammond, Michael Kooman, Christopher Dimond, Sam Salmond, Jenny Stafford Michelle Elliott, Danny Larsen, David Darrow, Will Van Dyke, Josh Halloway, Emily Kaczmerak, Cheeyang Ng, Khiyon Hursey, Kit Yan, Melissa Li, Joel Waggoner, Preston Max Allen and many others. Drama League Directing Fellow, Charles Abbott Directing Fellowship, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. UW School of Drama.

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COME FROM AWAY

Seattle Rep

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

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Village Theatre

JASPER IN DEADLAND

SEATTLE PREMIERE The 5th Avenue Theatre

ALONE & ALIVE

Williamstown Theatre Festival

STRING

WORLD PREMIERE Village Theatre

CINDERELLA

The 5th Avenue Theatre

Gallery

A CHRISTMAS STORY

Paper Mill Playhouse The 5th Avenue Theatre

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

RAZIA'S SHADOW

The Public Theater/Joe's Pub

NEXT TO NORMAL

SEATTLE PREMIERE Contemporary Classics

PRODUCING

Brandon is the newly-appointed Artistic Producer at Center Theatre Group in LA, specifically focusing on new musical development where he was a producer on the LA-premieres of David Byrne's Here Lies Love, Eboni Booth's Primary Trust directed by Tony nominee Knud Adams, Karen Zacarías' Destiny of Desire, and the world premiere of Zack Zadek's The Turning at the Mark Taper Forum, as well as The Baby-Sitters Club: A New Musical and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish directed by Oscar winner Joel Grey at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Brandon is formerly the Associate Artistic Director at Village Theatre, a $13+ million company just outside Seattle. As head of Village's new works program, he 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 produced the annual Festival of New Musicals, and was creator of three new initiatives: The Beta Series (a second-stage season of developmental productions ), the Writers Residency (retreats for early stage development), and At The Table (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, Will Aronson, Mark Sonnenblick, 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.