MARGARETT PERRY is an award-winning director of new plays. She has directed and developed new work Off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the country as well as in Scotland and London.  Margarett directed the world premiere of John Jiler’s The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project at New Jersey Repertory Company last spring that went on to perform at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh and will be moving to Off-Broadway this summer. Last summer she also directed the world premiere of Shortlist by Brian Parks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Assembly Rooms) and will be returning this summer with two more world premieres, Polishing Shakespeare by Brian Dykstra and Plotters by Brian Parks. Other recent world premieres include:  the critically acclaimed world premieres of Born in East Berlin by Rogelio Martinez and Seared by Theresa Rebeck both at San Francisco Playhouse, The House by Brian Parks (US, London & Scotland), Education by Brian Dykstra (59e59), Banned from Baseball by Patricia O’Hara (Human Race) and Brian Dykstra’s Fringe First award-winning, Clean Alternatives that began Off-Broadway at 59e59 Theatres.  Margarett was the Resident Director at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca where she has directed over 25 productions including The Thanksgiving Play, Sunset Baby, Seminar, Cock, Private Lives, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Paloma, Old Times, A Marriage Minuet and world premieres by Brian Parks (The House), Rob Ackerman (Call Me Waldo), Rachel Axler (Archeology) and Brian Dykstra (The Two of You, Strangerhorse, Selling Out, Ho!). Other recent favorites include:  Shrek the Musical (Connecticut Rep), Used to Was/Maybe Did (Center Theatre Group), The Revolutionists (Human Race) and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Hudson Stage). During the shutdown, Margarett ventured into the short film and music video world for passion projects such as #Hashtag That-Say Their Name (from the musical Crazy Make Crazy), This Doesn’t Work written & performed by Darian Dauchan and Brian Dykstra and Time Passes for the Resident Acting Company. She also began exploring watercolor and her work was licensed by the New York Historical Society and was a finalist in 2020 Brush & Lyre Prize. Margarett was an Artistic Fellow with the Lark for years and considered it her theatrical home base. Drama League Alumni and proud member SDC.