Robert Press
169 Sullivan Street, #18 AGMA/ACM-SIGCHI
New York, New York 10012 www.cs.cmu.edu/~robpress
917.328.6462
Director in performance, film/video and web with 15 years national experience as producer, director, editor, writer and choreographer. Numerous National Endownment for the Arts grants and Artistic Director of experimental arts company in NYC. Assisted Peter Sellers, Jonathan Miller, Judith Malina, Eric Simonson, and William Forsythe.
Founder/Artistic Director – Measured Breaths Theatre Co. Inc. – NEA, NYSCA & ART/NY grants
Literary Manager – The Living Theatre
Apprentice Program Scenes Director Santa Fe Opera
Three Americanisms/Land of Fog and Whistles (Wellman) Theatre X, Milwaukee
Or, and Therefore (Bernard) The Living Theatre
We Should… (A Lie) (Bernard) The Living Theatre
More Stories from the Pagan Pagoda (Eng) Dixon Place
Cages (Lavazzi) La Mama
Those Fabulous Americans (Rameau) Measured Breaths Theatre Company
The Representation of Body & Soul (Cavalieri)/
He Who Says Yes (Brecht/Weill) Measured Breaths Theatre Company
Amadis (Lully) Measured Breaths Theatre Company
The Madrigals of Love and War (Monteverdi) Measured Breaths Theatre Company
Tamerlano (Handel) Measured Breaths Theatre Company
Embrace My Soul Video – New Fiction Writer/Director/Editor
Everything Music Video, Band: PUSH Director/Editor
Julius Caesar (Handel) Dir: Peter Sellars Theatredes Amandiers, Paris/
DEFA Film Studios, Berlin
Mozart/Daponte Trilogy Dir: Peter Sellars Pepsico Summerfare
The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi) Dir: Jonathan Miller Glimmerglass Opera
Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Dir: Jonathan Miller Opera de Monte-Carlo
Invisible Film (New Ballet) Chor: William Forsythe Ballett Frankfurt
Murmurs of Earth (Ping Chong) Dir: Ping Chong Seattle Group Theatre
Xerxes (Handel) Dir: Stephen Wadsworth Santa Fe Opera
The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken (Weill) Dir: Jonathan Eaton Santa Fe Opera
German Requiem (Bentley) Dir: Judith Malina The Living Theatre
As You Like It (Shakespeare) Dir: Eric Simonson Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago
Creative Director and Information Architect, IBM Glohal Services. Main Client: The New York Stock Exchange. Designed and maintained public site www.nyse.com, NYSEnet.com and Institutional XPress, resulting in $4million annual billing, high end-user satisfaction and exceeded expected customer subscription levels. See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robpress/writeup.html
2001 Merit Award, International One Show Interactive Competition – Internet Broadband Design
1993-94 TCG/National Endowment for the Arts Career Development Grant - Directing
Drama League of New York -- Director’s Grant
Invited Lecturer, MBA program for e-commerce, Carnegie Mellon University
Lecturer, theatre/opera production and history, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Yale
M.S. Computer Sci./Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon; B.A. Physics, Univ. of Chicago
Coursework completed for M.A., Theatrical History and Criticism, Cornell University
Computer Experience: AVID Media Composer, Final Cut Pro; Own Camera (Sony PD150)
Software: Director, Microstation, Photoshop, C++, Visio, Visual Basic, SoundEdit, Pro Tools