Toby Bercovicitobyvera@hotmail.com
Northampton, MA
Director
Toby Bercovici considers herself a radical deconstructionist theatre director, one who lovingly rips apart classical texts and stitches them back together, full of music, dance, and elements of the circus and the grotesque. Movement is of primary importance in her pieces, as is the continual casting of females in male roles.
Bercovici graduated from Smith College in 2006, where she was awarded the Samuel A. Eliot, Jr./Julia Heflin Award for Distinguished Directing. While there, she directed the darkly comedic "A Feast At Countess Kotlubay's," as well as her own adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House." She has spent the past two years living and working in New York City. She joyfully assistant directed "Imminence," a piece created by The Talking Band and performed at La Mama, E.T.C.; and "Old Comedy from Aristophanes' Frogs," a Target Margin show performed at Classic Stage Company. She also directed two one acts as part of The Looking Glass Theatre Writer/Director Forum, "Cardboard Box" and "Intimate Things," both of which received festival awards.
Bercovici is currently at-work on a film, tentatively titled "Playing Double: Deconstructing (Cross-)Gendered Performance." In the Fall, she will begin the MFA Directing program at UMass Amherst. There, she hopes to direct a Dadaist "The Winter's Tale."
