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Jasson Minadakis

June 2006

Jasson Minadakis is currently the Artistic Director at Atlanta’s Actor’s Express Theatre Company. From 1994 — 2002 he was the Producing Artistic Director of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, which he co-founded as Fahrenheit Theatre Company. He studied at the Royal National Theatre International Directors Institute, and was profiled in American Theatre (October 1999) and Stage Directions Magazine (“Top Ten Young Theatre Makers in the Country,” January 2000). He currently serves as the Executive Secretary of the National New Play Network. He is currently directing Hamlet at Georgia Shakespeare and will be directing the regional premiere of Martin McDonough’s The Pillowman at Actor’s Express in the Fall of 2006. He was named Best Director of 2004 by The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing, and Southern Voice.

At Actor’s Express — Bug, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Echoes of Another Man, Killer Joe, Burn This, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Blue/Orange, Bel Canto. At Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival — Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Chagrin Falls, The Beard of Avon, Arcadia, Nocturne, Fuddy Meers, Lovers & Executioners, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Betrayal, The Weir, Waiting for Godot, The Misanthrope, A Chance of Lightning, The Three Musketeers, Dracula, The Color Wheel, and 19 productions of Shakespeare. Other Regional Credits — Hamlet at Georgia Shakespeare, Copenhagen at Playhouse on the Square, Bedroom Farce at Wayside Theatre.

Jasson Minadakis came to Atlanta from Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, which he co-founded as Fahrenheit Theatre Company in October 1993 and where he was the Producing Artistic Director for nine years. There, he directed 37 plays, commissioned 6, and produced 70. During his tenure at CSF, he led the theatre from an annual budget of $17,500 to $720,000 and garnered consecutive awards (1999 and 2000) for “Best Live Theatre” from Cincinnati CityBeat (Cincinnati’s largest free press paper). Jasson studied at the Royal National Theatre International Directors Institute, and was profiled in American Theatre (October 1999) and Stage Directions Magazine (“Top Ten Young Theatre Makers in the Country,” January 2000). He was also selected to participate in the National Arts Marketing Program in spring of 2002. He received his BA in Theatre and English Literature from James Madison University in 1992.