Jonathan Vandenberg
Jonathan Vandenberg is a director and educator whose work focuses on ancient and modern global classics, as well as new work. In the John Wells Directing Program, he leads the practice courses Foundations of Directing, which explores Ancient Greek Tragedy, Text to Stage: Modern Drama, and the seminar Global Theatre Traditions.
Selected directing work: Restless Night in Late Spring; The Exile from Ayodhya; The Nest; Hanjo; The Suppliants; Iago: Images Unseen; Winesburg, Ohio; Oresteia; Axis mundi; The Crossing of the Visible; The Kingdom; Tantalus; No Such Thing; Far Away; Landscape; and Amnesiac. His work has been presented by Classic Stage Company, Mabou Mines, Magic Theatre, Center for Performance Research, NYU Graduate Drama, Cutting Ball Theatre, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Theatre Jeock (Seoul), Representation Theatre (Taipei), and Rainshadow Studios (Singapore).
He was the founding Theatre Programme Coordinator at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, a liberal arts college co-founded by Yale University and the National University of Singapore. Previously, he was on the faculty of Vanderbilt University, where he led the Acting track, and Middlebury College. He received his MFA in Directing from Columbia University and additional training in Japan with the Suzuki Company of Toga.