Gideon Lester

Gideon Lester (b. 1972) is the American Repertory Theatre's Acting Artistic Director. [ [http://www.amrep.org/history.html American Repertory Theatre's History] ]

He was born in London in 1972. Gideon Lester studied English Literature at Oxford University. In 1995 he came to the States on a Fulbright grant and Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship to study dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. He teaches dramaturgy at the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and playwriting at Harvard. [ [http://www.amrep.org/people/gideon.html Gideon Lester's biography on the American Repertory Theatre's website] ]

He was Associate Artistic Director [cite news |title=New Director Is to Lead American Repertory |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E0D6133DF937A15756C0A9679C8B63 |work=The New York Times |date=May 24, 2001 |accessdate=2008-09-29 ] from 2002 until 2006, and before that served as Resident Dramaturg for five years. His recent translations include Marivaux’s "Island of Slaves" (directed by Robert Woodruff at the A.R.T. in 2006) [cite news |title=A SPIN ON THE CLASSICS |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11195B110AB48E08&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Boston Globe |date=May 12, 2006 |accessdate=2008-09-29 ] and "La Dispute", Brecht’s "Mother Courage," [cite news |title='MOTHER' LODE |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDEA114707A13&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Boston Globe |date=February 16, 2001 |accessdate=2008-09-29 |format=fee required ] Büchner’s "Woyzeck," [cite news |title=`WOYZECK' CROSSES THE TABLOID WITH THE AVANT-GARDE |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDC8D226760CE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 26, 1997 |accessdate=2008-09-29 |format=fee required ] and two texts by the French playwright Michel Vinaver, "King" and "Overboard." His play "Amerika or the Disappearance," adapted from Franz Kafka’s first novel, was staged at the American Repertory Theatre in 2005, directed by Dominique Serrand. [cite news |title=DISCOVERING 'AMERIKA' |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10ACB49B59151B71&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Boston Globe |date=June 17, 2005 |accessdate=2008-09-29 ] His other adaptations include "Wings of Desire" (A.R.T. and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, 2006), [cite news |title=Foolishly, an Angel Falls in Love and Rushes In ... and Up |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/theater/reviews/05wing.html?pagewanted=print |work=The New York Times |date=December 5, 2006 |accessdate=2008-09-29 ] "Anne Frank" and "Enter the Actress", a one-woman show that he devised for Claire Bloom.

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