Maria Mileaf
{{short description|American theater director}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Maria Mileaf
|birth_name = Maria Joy Mileaf
|birth_date = c. {{bya|1965}}
|birth_place = New York City
|death_date =
|death_place =
|education = Yale College {{small|(BA)}}
UCSD {{small|(MFA)}}
|spouse = Neil Patel
|children = 2
}}
Maria Mileaf (born {{circa|1965}} in New York City) is an American theater director.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theatrealliance.org/barrymores/2005_awards.html |title=Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia :: 2005 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre :: Nominees and Award Recipients |access-date=2009-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603181608/http://www.theatrealliance.org/barrymores/2005_awards.html |archive-date=2008-06-03 |url-status=dead }} She grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/492892134/|title=Here & There|date=1986-04-21|work=Daily News|access-date=2021-07-12|via=newspapers.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/nyregion/jersey-footlights.html|last=Falkenstein|first=Michelle|title=JERSEY FOOTLIGHTS|date=2006-01-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2021-07-12}}
Mileaf received a BA in literature from Yale College and received an MFA in directing from University of California, San Diego in 1990.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/177259617|last=Churnin|first=Nancy|title='Faith, Hope and Charity' and a Lot of Dedication'|date=1992-04-02|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=2021-07-12|via=newspapers.com}} In 1994, she was awarded a Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowship from the Williamstown Theatre Festival.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/545429103|title='Stepin Fetchit' topic of WTF Special Event|date=2004-07-20|publisher=North Adams Transcript|access-date=2021-07-12|via=newspapers.com}} She lives in NYC with her husband, set designer Neil Patel,{{Cite web |url=http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/Oct07/mileaf.cfm |title=American Theater Magazine |access-date=2009-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619185718/http://tcg.org/publications/at/Oct07/mileaf.cfm |archive-date=2010-06-19 |url-status=dead }} and their two children.
Theater directing credits
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Company ! scope="col" | Venue |
|---|
| scope="row" | 1990 |
| scope="row" | 1992
| Faith, Hope and Charity: A Little Dance of Death in Five Acts | Sixth Avenue Playhouse | Sixth Avenue Playhouse |
| scope="row" | 1993
| Cucaracha Theatre Company | Cucaracha Theatre |
| scope="row" | 1994
| Scar | Perishable Theatre | Perishable Theatre |
| scope="row" | 1996 |
| scope="row" | 1996
| New Georges | Walkerspace |
| scope="row" | 1997
| Laugh I Thought I'd Die | | PS 122 |
| scope="row" | 1998
| Art | | Royal George Theatre |
| scope="row" | 1998 |
| scope="row" | 1998
| Coal Bin Theater |
| scope="row" | 1999
| Life Under 30: Ten-Minute Plays |
| scope="row" | 1999 |
| scope="row" | 1999
| MAID | |
| scope="row" | 2000 |
| scope="row" | 1999-2000
| Lobster Alice |
| scope="row" | 2000 |
| scope="row" | 2000
| Wit |
| scope="row" | 2001 |
| scope="row" | 2002
| Cherry Lane Mentor Project |
| scope="row" | 2003
| Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran | The Play Company |
| scope="row" | 2004
| Private Jokes, Public Places | |
| scope="row" | 2004 |
| scope="row" | 2004 |
| scope="row" | 2005 |
| scope="row" | 2005 |
| scope="row" | 2005 |
| scope="row" | 2005
| Sakharam Binder{{Cite news|url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=&tols_title=Sakharam%20Binder%20(Play)&pdate=20041103&byline=Jonathan%20Kalb&id=1098953824821|title = Theater|newspaper = The New York Times}} | The Play Company |
| scope="row" | 2005 |
| scope="row" | 2005 |
| scope="row" | 2006-2007 |
| scope="row" | 2006 |
| scope="row" | 2007 |
| scope="row" | 2007
| Third |
| scope="row" | 2008
| Women's Expressive Theater |
| scope="row" | 2008 |
| scope="row" | 2009
| Blood from a Stoner |
| scope="row" | 2009
| Ninety |
| scope="row" | 2010
| MazelTov Cocktail... an explosive family comedy | Jamie M. Fox (one-woman show) |
| scope="row" | 2011
| F2M |
| scope="row" | 2011
| Ruined |
| scope="row" | 2012 |
| scope="row" | 2013 |
| scope="row" | 2013 |
| scope="row" | 2014 |
| scope="row" | 2014
| Detroit |
| scope="row" | 2015 |
| scope="row" | 2015
| HA | Akim Funk Buddha |
| scope="row" | 2015
| Abyss | The Play Company | TheaterLab |
| scope="row" | 2016
| |
| scope="row" | 2016
| Feeding the Dragon |
| scope="row" | 2017
| |
| scope="row" | 2018
| Feeding the Dragon | Primary Stages Theater, Hartford Stage | Hartford Stage, Cherry Lane Theatre |
| scope="row" | 2019
| Here I Lie |
Film directing credits
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Writer ! scope="col" | Notes |
|---|
| scope="row" |
| The House in Capricorn | Chantal Billadeau | Short musical film |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" | Award ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Show |
|---|
| scope="row" | 2000
| Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater | Outstanding Direction of a Play | Wit |
| scope="row" | 2005
| Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater | Outstanding Direction of a Play |
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070909093235/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Maria&middle=&last=Mileaf Maria Mileaf] at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150612055958/http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm/ Lortel Off-Broadway database]
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Category:American theatre directors
Category:American women theatre directors
Category:University of California, San Diego alumni