Erica Schmidt

Personal Information
Directing credits include: Humor Abuse (co-creator, MTC); Rent (Tokyo); Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer and Copland’s The Tender Land (all at Bard Summer Scape); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Carnival (The Paper Mill Playhouse); Trust (The Play Company, Callaway Award nominee); As You Like It (The Public Theater/NYSF, chashama and New York International Fringe Festival 2000 Winner for Best Direction); Debbie Does Dallas (wrote the adaptation and directed Off-Broadway at the Jane Street); Spanish Girl (Second Stage Uptown); Romeo and Juliet (Outdoor Garage). College and University work includes: Buried Child and R&J (The Juilliard School); Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (The McCarter’s Berlind Theater, Princeton University); Top Girls (Fordham University). Upcoming: The Burnt Part Boys (The Vineyard, New York Stage and Film and Playwrights Horizons.)
 
Credits

Director
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 LUCY Minetta Lane Theatre 02/06/2023 Director
2 Cyrano Daryl Roth Theatre 11/07/2019 Director
3 Mac Beth Lucille Lortel Theatre 05/19/2019 Director
4 A Month in the Country East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 01/29/2015 Director
5 Taking Care of Baby New York City Center/ Stage II 11/19/2013 Director
6 Humor Abuse New York City Center/ Stage II 03/10/2009 Director
7 People Be Heard Playwrights Horizons 09/23/2004 Director
8 As You Like It Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 04/07/2003 Director
9 Debbie Does Dallas Jane Street Theatre 10/29/2002 Director

Author
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 LUCY Minetta Lane Theatre 02/06/2023 Playwright
2 Cyrano Daryl Roth Theatre 11/07/2019 Adaptation
3 Mac Beth Lucille Lortel Theatre 05/19/2019 Adaptation
4 Humor Abuse New York City Center/ Stage II 03/10/2009 Creator
5 Debbie Does Dallas Jane Street Theatre 10/29/2002 Adaptation

Designer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 As You Like It Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 04/07/2003 Costume Designer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2020 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Mac Beth Adaptation
2 NOMINATED 2020 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Director of a Play Mac Beth Director
3 WON 2009 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Solo Show Humor Abuse Creator