Richard Caliban has worked as a playwright and director across the country and internationally. He was founder and artistic director of critically acclaimed, award-winning Cucaracha Theatre where he wrote and directed many of his plays, including Homo Sapien Shuffle at the Public Theatre; Performance Piece #27 (also at the Vineyard Theatre and the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan); Famine Plays (also at the Yale Cabaret, Triplex Theatre and Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles); Rodents & Radios (Best Play List 1990–Mel Gussow, The New York Times); Budd; and A Vast Wreck. Under Caliban’s directorship, Cucaracha received an Obie for its achievements as an emerging company. Caliban has also directed Will Scheffer’s Easter with Naked Angels and Odets’ Clash by Night. His piece MoM - A Rock Concert Musical won “Outstanding Musical” at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, and subsequently played at theaters including the Actors’ Playhouse and The Barrow Group Theatre. Caliban is now a faculty member of the National Theatre Conservatory at Denver Center Theatre, where he directs a play every year, and teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop. He received his education at Bard College, the Yale School of Drama, and the New York Film Academy.
Richard Caliban
Studios
Wood
Richard Caliban worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…