Michole Biancosino is a director, producer, writer and performer. Her artistic home has been with Project Y Theatre Company, which she co-founded and is currently the co-Artistic Director. With Project Y she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and internationally. She’s the creator and a Producer of Project Y’s yearly Women in Theater Festival, now entering its 11th year in NYC. Michole has directed many original shows that have toured regionally and abroad. Her directing work spans from new play collaborations with playwrights; to interactive and immersive new work works; to creating new forms of theatre for children and families; to new (often comedic) musicals; to (an extensive list of) solo theatre works; to big cast classic plays revisited and reimagined for today. She is a recipient of the SDC Gielgud Fellowship for classical directing. Her work has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation, ART/NY, NY Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), The Dramatists Guild, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Middlebury College.
As an actor, she is currently touring Lia Romeo’s Yoga With Jillian as well as her own new work, PowerSuits, created with dancer Lida Winfield. This year she was also supposed to be developing a brand new children’s show at the Kennedy Center but….. well, just look at your news feed, a lot is happening right now.
Directing credits included the long-running shows, Trump Lear (co-created and directed) and the award-winning, David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (co-created and directed), both of which toured regionally and performed at Edinburgh Fringe, as co-productions with Richard Jordan Productions (UK), The Pleasance, and Underbelly. She directs solo artist Peter Michael Marino’s long-running solo shows, Show Up Kids! now running in Spanish- and Japanese-language versions. Other work includes both the digital and on-stage versions of the Infallible Award-winner PLANET OF THE GRAPES LIVE FROM NYC (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh 2021) and the cosmic raga opera, Waves of Gravity with Neel Murgai (LaMama CultureHub).