Welcome to the website of director Dev Bondarin
Photo by Erin Mayhugh.
Dev Bondarin is a New York-based freelance theater director and is the Associate Artistic Director of Prospect Theater Company.
Dev's directing credits include: Reefer Madness: The Musical (nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical) and The House of Blue Leaves with The Gallery Players, A Home Across the Ocean with MTWorks, Romeo & Juliet in Prospect Park with EBE Ensemble, Thucydides at the Samuel French Festival (winner–published February 2010), and Raised By Lesbians at the New York International Fringe Festival.
With Prospect Theater Company, Dev curates, directs, and produces the company's annual musical theater lab where writers are commissioned to write short musicals on a central theme. Past labs include: Rites of Passage (2012), Souvenir Stories (2011), Snapshots (2010), and Map Quest (2009). Dev also curated and co-directed Prospect's 2010 and 2011 Summer Teen Intensive Showcases and produced the company's Dark Night Series from 2006-2009.
Dev has developed new work and and directed readings with Davenport Theatricals, Abingdon Theatre, Luna Stage, Milk Can Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, American Globe Theater, and On the Square Productions and serves on the reading committees for the New York Musical Theater Festival, Estrogenius, and the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers. She has collaborated with many playwrights, lyricists, bookwriters, and composers and has assisted directors Kate Whoriskey, Jim Simpson, and Mary B. Robinson.
Dev holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College where she was the recipient of the Joel Zwick Prize for Excellence in Directing and a Buchwald Fellowship and graduated cum laude with a BA in Theater Arts (with highest honors) and Art History from Brandeis University. She has been awarded an SDC Observership and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and an Associate Member of SDC and the League of Professional Theatre Women.
To contact Dev, please email: dev@devbondarin.com.
(From L to R: A Home Across the Ocean with Mark Emerson, David Stallings, & Lavita Shaurice - Photo by Antonio Minino, Reefer Madness: The Musical with Greg Horton and Company - Photo by Bella Muccari, and On The Page, part of Snapshots, with Jennifer Blood and David Andrew Anderson.)
