Stage Director, Theatre Director, Musical Theatre - Gerald vanHeerden
Director of Musical Theatre - Gerald vanHeerden
Contact Information - Gerald vanHeerden

REVIEWS &
FEATURES

The Hippo -
October 2001
Manchester NH
Feature on "Boomers"

The Village -
November 1996
Feature on "A Show of Hands"
(PDF - 26KB)

 

BIOGRAPHY - THEATRICAL CREDITS

PROFILE

A professional theater director with leadership credibility through an attention to detail, process and vision in realizing the theatrical endeavor.

ASSOCIATIONS

DIRECTOR

  • "Once On This Island" - 2006
    Black Spectrum Theatre
    Queens, NYC
  • "M.S. 911-A Middle School Story" - 2006
    By Frumi Cohen
    Black Spectrum Theatre
    Queens, NYC
  • "And Then There Were None" - 2006
    Pawling Theater Company
    Pawling, NY
  • "Amy Crockett - MVP" - 2005
    A new musical play
    Black Spectrum Theatre
    Queens, NYC
  • "Babes In Arms" - 2004
    Black Spectrum Theatre
    Queens, NYC
  • "Torched" - 2004
    A musical play
    Downtown Urban Theater Festival
    Harry du Jur Theater, NYC
  • "The Music Man" - 2004
    Applause Performing Arts Center
    Paramus, NJ
  • "Background" - 2003
    A new play
    CUNY Graduate Center Theater
    NYC
  • "The Wizard of Oz" - 2003
    RSC version- Artistic Director
    Applause Performing Arts, NJ
  • "Bowery Follies" - Off-Broadway
    A new musical comedy
    Sharon Barnett - Book, Lyrics, Music
    Fourteenth Street Y Theatre, NYC
  • "Baby Buddha . . . Downtown Dysfunctionals II"
    Off-Broadway (Music In a Box)
    Director of Dysfunctional Development
    Zipper Theater, NYC
  • "Boomers . . . Promises Made Not Kept" (production photo)
    A new musical
    Derryfield Theater, NH
  • "Sessions"
    A new play
    Greenwich Street Theater, NYC
  • "Downtown Dysfunctionals"
    Off-Broadway (Music in a Box)
    A serial musical
    Cabaret 1050, NYC
  • "Consumer Behavior"
    A new pop musical
    Henry Street Settlement
    Abrons Arts Center, NYC
  • "Road Trip"
    By Tina Posterli
    The Duplex-Cabaret Theater, NYC
  • "A Show of Hands"
    A new musical
    By Frumi Cohen
    Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater, NYC
    1997 First Place Award Winner
    The Festival For Contemporary Musical Theater, CO
  • "What Kind Of Promise?"
    A new musical
    Conceived & Developed
    Thirteenth Street Repertory Company, NYC
  • "The Vampyre"
    By John Polideri
    Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center, NY
  • "Ten Percent In Maple Grove"
    By Mark Dunn
    Elm Road Bible Baptist Church
    Theater Studio Inc., NYC

CORPORATE

  • "Hagstrom Map and Travel Center"
    Opening: Wall Street
    Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc., NYC
  • "The Wonderful Wizard of L"
    Industrial: Doral Park Avenue
    Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc., NYC

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

  • "Always . . . Patsy Cline"
    Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA
    Ted Swindley - Director
  • "All God's Chillun Got Wings"
    New Day Repertory
  • "After The Fair"
    York Theater - Observer
  • "Take This Show And Shove It!"
    Phil Oesterman - Director
ASSISTANT TO AND STAGE MANAGER
  • "Democracy"
    A new musical
    BroadwayUSA / NMTN
  • "Mystery Repeats Itself"
    The Mask and Wig Club
    Philadelphia, PA
  • "Hit Or Mrs."
    The Mask and Wig Club
    Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • The Boston Conservatory, BFA
    Major: Musical Theater
    Boston, MA
    May 1984

 

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