David Bridel

About David

• Visiting Assistant Professor

Biography

David Bridel is a stage director, choreographer, playwright and teacher of acting.

For Academy Award winner William Friedkin, he has choreographed “Ariadne Auf Naxos” (Los Angeles Opera), “Salome” and “Das Gehege” (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich). For the MFA theater program at UCLA, he wrote and directed “I Gelosi” (2006), and “The Death of Mayakovsky” (2007).

For the Franklin Stage Company, where he is co-Artistic Director, he has directed “A Doll’s House,” “What the Butler Saw,” “Hedda Gabler,” “Eurydice,” “Dog in the Manger,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Lesson & The Chairs,” “Uncle Vanya” and co-directed “The Tempest.”

He has written and directed “The Heretic Mysteries” and “The Legend of the Dead Soldier.” Other directing credits include “Medea” (Cal Rep), “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Ivanov,” “No-one Knows How” (New York), “Fortinbras” (Crossroads New Jersey), “The Tower,” “The Mill on the Floss,” “The Misanthrope,” “As You Like It” (Tel Aviv), “Rhinoceros” (London), and “The Taming of the Shrew” (Bloomsbury Theater, London, and European Tour).

His other plays include “The Last Girl,” “Shreds & Fancies” (London New Play Festival), “Death of an Actress” (Southwark Playhouse), “100 Years of Enchantment” (Oval House and Union Chapel), “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Mainbrace Theatre), “The Story of Peter Vanicek” (Nitra International Theater Festival, Slovakia), and “The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon.”

Mr. Bridel has taught and directed for many of the leading actor-training programs at drama schools and universities across the United States including SUNY Purchase, USC, Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, Rutgers University, NYU (the Atlantic School), and The Actors Center in New York. He is co-founder and master teacher of Studio Six, LA’s first Clown School.