For Nerve Tank Media – Co-founder & Artistic Director
All pieces conceived and written by co-founder Chance Muehleck and developed with the company unless otherwise noted.
Saturn's Return – co-produced with and presented by Tompkins Corner Cultural Center August 2021
The Attendants 2020 - commissioned & co-produced by Arts Brookfield for their online series June 2020
How To Explain Theater to a Dead Audience – co-produced with and presented by Perform @ Chinatown Soup
Project Woyzeck – co-produced with and presented by The Performance Project at University Settlement June 2017
(Adaptation by Melanie Armer, Additional text by Chance Muehleck)
The Maiden – co-produced with LaMama ETC in The Club April 2014
Glory Road (interactive installation) - commissioned & co-produced by Arts Brookfield at the Grace Plaza November 2013
10% Nation- presented at Dixon Place 2012
The Attendants (interactive installation) - commissioned by Arts Brookfield & presented at the Arts World Financial Ctr 2011
Opal - presented at Incubator Arts Project 2011
Pitch! (or something sexy) - commissioned by The Tank, 2010
LIVE/FEED - produced by The Nerve Tank in residence at The Brooklyn Lyceum 2010
bauhaus the bauhaus - produced by The Nerve Tank in residence at The Brooklyn Lyceum 2009
A Gathering - produced by The Nerve Tank in residence at The Brooklyn Lyceum 2009
In the Heart of a Chinese Curse - produced by The Nerve Tank at Grethe Holby Studio 2007
For The New Circle Theatre Company – co-Artistic Director 2017-2019
Betsy Ross Lies – by Ed Valentine at the Michael Warren Powell Creative Center as a part of the Sandbox Series April 2019
Consumption – by Ed Valentine at the Gene Frankel Theatre as a part of the Inferno Series: Lust & Gluttony June 2018
Tooth of Winter - by Ed Valentine at The Playroom as a part of the Inferno Series: Limbo June 2017
NEW YORK CITY – Independent Theater
My work in the NYC “indie theater” scene began with the Circle Rep Theater Company where I directed over 25 fully staged productions for Michael Warren Powell's Lab as well as readings and workshops of many plays. Working with writers as a dramaturg became an ongoing feature in my work with both established and developing writers. I was also affiliated with the Ensemble Studio Theater for a short time, and directed many productions in the NYC Fringe. The list below is a sampling of the work I have done in 25 years of working in this community. Most of these works are world premieres.
For A Girl To Disappear by Larissa Kiel at HERE Arts Center
Scout’s Honor! by Ed Valentine for 2007 Fringe NYC at the Players Theater
Laundry Service by Beth Novick for The 2006 Samuel French Festival (finalist)
System Eternal by Chance Muehleck for 2005 Fringe NYC at the SoHo Playhouse
Kicking & Screaming (& additional book) by Jennifer Jiles for Workshop Theater Co. & Ars Nova 2003
Tagging April by Chance Muehleck at The Danny Kaye Playhouse 2003 & The Flux Theater festival in Pittsburgh
Our Father’s House by Chance D. Muehleck at Milagro Theater for Screaming Venus 2002
The Last Nickel by Jane Shepard, at Theater for the New City for 2002 FringeNYC
Eating the Dead by Jane Shepard at Center Stage for LIVE Theater Company 2002
The Honeypot Redux & Devil Fingers by Chance Muehleck at CAP 21 for LIVE Theater Company 2001
The Honeypot Redux by Chance Muehleck at The Turbulence Theater Co. 2001
Floating by Catherine Gillette at Vital Theater Co. 2001
Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson by Rich Orloff for Word of Mouth at Greenwich House 2000
The Pain In The Poetry by Glenn Alterman for The Turnip Theater Festival 1998
Falling Grace by Mark Scharf atThe Kraine Theater 1998
Flamenco by Shawn Hirabayashi at Circle-In-the-Square for Circle East 1998, Theater 22 for Circle East 1998
& NYSSSA at Adelphi University 1998
Babylonian Tony by Timothy Mason at The INTAR Theater for Circle East 1998, Circle-in-the-Square for Circle East 1998
& The Carmel Performing Arts Festival 1998
Voices by Kim Anderson at The Ensemble Studio Theater 1997
A Rage Of Chaos by Jane Shepard (featuring Circle Rep Artistic Director Michael Warren Powell) at The Westbank Theater
for Circle East 1996, Judson Memorial Church 1996, NYSSSA at Adelphi University 1996, One Dream Theater 1997,
The Duplex for Circle East 1997, Carmel Performing Arts Festival 1997, INTAR Theater 1998
Last Lap by Nancy Donahue at Circle-in-the-Square for Circle East 1996 & The Westbank 1996
Cats in The Sun by Nancy Donahue at Circle-in-the-Square for Circle Rep 1995, The Westbank Theater 1995 & NYSSSA
at Adelphi University 1995
The Man Who Couldn’t Dance by Jason Katims at Circle-in-the-Square for Circle Rep 1995
REGIONAL THEATER
Terminal Lucidity by Amy Bernstein at Baltimore Theater Project –Baltimore, MD 2018
Hamlet: See What I See for Rebel & Misfit Productions at the Barnett on Washington, St Louis MO 2016
The Cay by Gayle Cornelison at Prime Stage – Pittsburgh, PA 2005
As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane at Open Stage Theater – Pittsburgh, PA 2005
A Gathering by Chance Muehleck at Open Stage Theater –Pittsburgh, PA 2004
Tagging April by Chance Muehleck for Bare Bones Productions –Pittsburgh, PA 2004
Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson at Open Stage Theater - Pittsburgh, PA 2004
The Man Who Tried to Save the World by Artistic Director Gerome Davis based on the book by Scott Anderson:
A development workshop for the Burning Coal Theater - Raleigh NC 2003
UNIVERSITY THEATER PROJECTS
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare at The Mansion on Post Campus – Long Island University Undergraduate
program, April 2022
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury at The Little Theatre on Post Campus – Long Island University Graduate program, Nov. 2019
UBU ROI by Alfred Jarrey at The Little Theatre on Post Campus – Long Island University Undergraduate program, October 2018
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (adapted for five players) – Long Island University Graduate program, May 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott – Assistant Director to Leonard Foglia on the 1998 Broadway revival with Stephen Lang,
Marisa Tomei and Quentin Tarrantino at The Brooks Atkinson Theater
Cheat by Julie Jensen – Assistant Director to Joan Vail Thorne for the Women’s Project 2002
The Louis Slotin Sonata by Paul Mullin – Assistant Director to David Moore at Ensemble Studio Theater 2001
A Sense of Place by Lanford Wilson – Assistant Director to Michael Warren Powell 1998 Original Workshop Production
with The Cape Cod Theater Project
RADIO/PODCAST
Saturn's Return by Chance Muehleck, Podcast for Nerve Tank Media 2022
Dreamland by Chance Muehleck, Podcast for Nerve Tank Media 2019
Save Me by Ty Adams for National Public Radio, September 1999
TEACHING POSITIONS
Adjunct Professor, Theater Department, Point Park University 2005
Associate Professor, Dance Department, Marymount Manhattan College 2002
Playwriting Teacher/Mentor in S.T.A.C Advanced After-School Program, Long Island school system 2002
Academic Advisor at Western New England College; directed Skin Of Our Teeth by Thorton Wilder 1991
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Artistic Director and Co-founder of Nerve Tank Media, 2006-current
Co-Artistic Director of New Circle Theatre Company, 2017-2019
Managing Director of Open Stage Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004
Alumnus of Lincoln Center Directors Lab (2006) & Director's Lab West (2018)
Founding Member of Circle East – formerly Circle Repertory Lab
EDUCATION
B.A. Theater, University of Massachusetts (Co-founder and president of Student Valley Productions)
Poetics Precision Workshop (Lecoq derived technique) Elena Zucker, 2009
Noguchi Gymnastics Workshop with Butoh Master Mari Osanai, 2008
Workshop with Butoh Master Ko Morobushi, 2007
Master Class with Lawrence Sacharow Alaska Summer Conference, 2004
Master Class with Joseph Chaikin, 2000
Shakespeare and Company Intensive taught by Tina Packer, Kristen Linklater and Kevin Coleman
REFERENCES
By request