Violet Woundy
MULTIDISCIPLINARY THEATER ARTIST
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About
I'm Violet Woundy (she/they), a director and stage manager based in New York City.I began my conservatory theatrical training at Walnut Hill School for the Arts (Natick, MA). It has continued at The New School (NYC), where I graduated with a BFA Dramatic Arts and an MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship.I’m passionate about developing new works in highly collaborative environments with writers, composers, actor, designers, stage managers and other multi-hyphenate theatre artists. I’m a detail oriented, creative problem solver, who relishes in the artistic impetus generated from challenges. Creating plenty of room for empathy, psychological safety, many perspectives and marginalized voices is the core of my philosophy.My work focuses on the normalization of all aspects of womanhood, queerness, trans, and chronically ill/disabled experience — where stories are not solely about the struggles of someone’s identity, but the fullness of their life beyond. I’m most excited by heightened language, fantasy and science fiction, and work that breaks gender binary roles. I bring a warm heart, lots of questions, and a sense of wonder and humor to everything I create.I strive to create immersive and accessible theatrical/new media experiences by casting from a race/gender/sexuality conscious, purposeful, equity-oriented lens; and keep my spaces physically and monetarily accessible through hybrid in-person and online work.Other passions of mine include tabletop and video games, cooking, and spending time with my kittens.
Directing
SELECTED WORKS
live theater
Given Circumstances
More information available at given circumstances.carrd.co
HANG'D LIKE A DOG
Premiered at The Glass Box in The New School, May 2022.
(The BFA Dramatic Arts Senior Thesis of Ava Burckhardt, Kate Parker-Lentz, Logan Riseling, and Violet Woundy.)Hang’d Like a Dog is a historical fantasy account of 18th century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. In only a year, becoming infamous for their their cunning ruthlessness surpassing that of their captain; terrorizing small merchant ships around Jamaica; disguising themselves as men and revealing their breasts before they killed; and a potential lovers’ relationship and nonbinary gender identity.
What you would do to be truly free?
Achieve bodily autonomy by any means necessary. Defy gender roles and heterosexuality. And use them to your advantage. Rage against dangerous prescriptions in toxically male dominated spaces. And especially explore the beauty of the platonic-romantic line in relationships of people raised female.Video available on request.Written/Devised by Kate Parker-Lentz, Logan Riseling, and Violet Woundy.
Directed by Violet Woundy.
Costume Design by Ava Burckhardt.
Sound Design by Kate Parker-Lentz and Logan Riseling.
Scenic/Props/Lighting Design by Violet Woundy.
You're Invited to: Jessica's 10th birthday bash!
Premiered at Limefest at The Tank, August 2021.Ten year old Willow is an anxious mess. She just moved to New Jersey from Wisconsin, her parents are divorced, and her precociousness makes it difficult for her to make friends her own age. She gets invited to the birthday party of Jessica, the coolest and meanest girl in her class. Jessica wields her power among the six girls present with malicious glee, as the party eventually ends in tears. We follow the girls after the night of that fateful party through middle school and eventually to the night of their high school graduation.
Anything can happen at Jessica’s house.Video available on request.Produced by B•tch C•llective.
Written by Molly Babos.
Directed by Violet Woundy.
Designed by Brandon Darcel.
Stage Managed by Anastasia Webb.
milo tries to figure out what love is
Workshopped at New School for Drama, April 2019.A documentary theater piece created through interviews with friends in the cast and artists' lives. Fully immersive, the audience was directly involved with the action of the play in the sleepover (sitting on blow-up mattresses, blankets and pillows with optional chair seating, sharing snacks, surrounded by posters, art made by the cast and crew.)In a mysteriously generated mind-scape, Milo and their Brain throw a retro 1990s-style sleepover, bringing together the most influential fellow nonbinary and transgender people in their life to attempt to answer the question: what is love, and specifically, can true love exist for those whose humanity is constantly called into question by society?Written by Milo O'Connell.
Directed and Co-Developed by Violet Woundy.
Designed by Missy Hamblet.
a lonely impulse of delight
Performed at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, February 2018, as a senior year thesis in the Student Directed Festival.Employed gender bent for increased casting equity in the department and to explore female friendships and lesbian love.In the early hours of the morning after a night out, two friends await the arrival of one's lover – a mermaid who lives in Central Park lake.Video available upon request.Written by John Patrick Shanley.
Directed by Violet Woundy.
Lighting & Set Design by Michael A. Miccuci.
out west
Performed at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, February 2018, as a senior year thesis in the Student Directed Festival.In a flurry of classic Wild West tropes, a cowboy enters a new town and the local rancher's daughter falls in love with him, to disastrous consequences.Video available upon request.Written by John Patrick Shanley.
Directed by Violet Woundy.
Lighting & Set Design by Michael A. Miccuci.
online theater
i'm just so bored
Premiered & Livestreamed for In the Works Play Festival, December 2020.A live-streamed ten minute play festival; first slot of the night.Over a series of video calls, Ivy dishes with her friends as they await the callback list for their school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – but what Mia, Kara, and Rachel don’t know is that their conversations don’t stay secret.Watch the full show here.Written by Molly Babos.
Directed & Designed by Violet Woundy.
PRODUCING
SELECTED WORK
producing intern
THE 24 HOUR PLAYS ON BROADWAY GALA 2022
Written, rehearsed, and performed in 24 hours (November 20-21) at The Town Hall, NYC starring celebrity artists of stage and screen.Artistic Director: Mark Armstrong
Associate Producer: Serena Berman
Producing Intern: Violet Woundy
General Manager: Madelyn Paquette
Production Manager: Michael Alifanz
Production Stage Manager: Patrick Anthony Surillo
Set & Props Designer: Courtney Kupferschmidt
Lighting Designer: Matt Konklan
Sound Designer: Julian Evans
Costume Designer: Katja Andreiev
Video and Projections Designer: Miranda Jean Larson
Photography: Austin Pogrob
Stage management
Contact
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Currently:
Working on my Master's Capstone for MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship, Given Circumstances.___________September 2021 on "Freshmen", Fringe Biscuit Magazine:
"We're pegging B•tch C•llective as a young company to watch based on the fun debut, Freshmen [at Thornhill Virtual Fringe Festival]."
"Shoutout to director Violet Woundy for the stories/snapchat-style montage which sets the tone for a fun-night-about-to-fall apart. #beenthere."
"...Effectively probes group power dynamics, with juicy conflicts & truthful portrayals of peer pressure from the dynamic cast."