Michael Dove is a US-based producer, director, dramaturg, and arts organizer who specializes in new work with a particular interest in socio-political themes and experimental styles. He was the founding Artistic Director of Forum Theatre (which recently ended production after 14 seasons) where he produced over 60 theatre, dance, and performance art productions and garnered 13 Helen Hayes Awards nominations, winning 4.
Michael Dove is a Washington DC-based producer, director, dramaturg, and arts organizer who specializes in new work with a particular interest in socio-political themes and experimental styles. He was the founding Artistic Director of Forum Theatre (which recently ended production after 14 seasons) where he produced over 60 theatre, dance, and performance art productions...
Michael Dove is a US-based producer, director, dramaturg, and arts organizer who specializes in new work with a particular interest in socio-political themes and experimental styles. He was the founding Artistic Director of Forum Theatre (which recently ended production after 14 seasons) where he produced over 60 theatre, dance, and performance art productions and garnered 13 Helen Hayes Awards nominations, winning 4.
Michael Dove is a Washington DC-based producer, director, dramaturg, and arts organizer who specializes in new work with a particular interest in socio-political themes and experimental styles. He was the founding Artistic Director of Forum Theatre (which recently ended production after 14 seasons) where he produced over 60 theatre, dance, and performance art productions and garnered 13 Helen Hayes Awards nominations, winning 4. Recently, he co-produced the Digital Eye festival, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut and various European Embassies in DC and was the Artistic Director of the city-wide Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival, working with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. He is a regular attendee of the TESZT Euroregional Theatre Festival in Timișoara, Romania, reporting for the Center for International Theatre Development, and has traveled all over the world, participating in festivals in South Korea, Sweden, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Scotland, Italy, and France. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern European theatre, particularly in Hungary and Romania.
He recently directed Cary Churchill's LOVE AND INFORMATION, I CALL MY BROTHERS by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and he has directed the NNPN Rolling World Premieres of PLUTO and BLACKBERRY WINTER, both by by Steve Yockey, as well as the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Robert Schenkkan's BUILDING THE WALL. Other Forum credits include the World Premiere of HOLLY DOWN IN HEAVEN by Kara Lee Corthron as well as PASSION PLAY, AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP, CHURCH, MAD FOREST, SCORCHED, ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA, AMAZONS AND THEIR MEN (co-directed), dark play or stories for boys, MARAT/SADE, ANTIGONE (Anouilh), VALPARAISO, ROCKABY and ROUGH FOR RADIO (for the DC Beckett Centenary Festival), THE MEMORANDUM, HAMLETMACHINE, and BECKETT: THE SHORTER PLAYS. His other credits include SEMINAR at PlayMakers, BLACKBERRY WINTER at Orlando Shakes, 4000 MILES at Vermont Stage Company, SIDE MAN, WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING, and DOUBT at 1st Stage, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at Cape Fear Regional Theater, SNOW ANGEL for the Imagination Stage Conservatory, LA CORBIèRE at Solas Nua (co-directed), DATED and THE RELATIONSHIP OF ARCHIBALD AND AMITY for the Source Festival, THE WATER ENGINE and METAMORPHOSES at Montgomery College and the world premiere of HUMAN CAPACITY by Jennifer Barclay at the University of Maryland. He is a Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the National New Play Network.