Marjorie Hayes

Respected international director, actress and singer Marjorie Hayes creates performances that engage and excite audiences in the U.S. and Europe. In 2017, Hayes was an Institute of the Arts Fellow and created The Women Who Compose for Broadway, celebrating the few women composers who have broken the glass ceiling of Broadway in the last 100 years.... The show premiered at the Triad Theatre, NYC, and will be produced by Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Dallas, in March 2020. Ms. Hayes was awarded an Artslink Grant in 2005 to direct a site-specific production of Brecht/Weills socio-political musical Happy End for Teatr Wybrzeze, one of Polands professional state theatres. It was staged at the Gdansk shipyard, the exact factory where the Solidarity movement started, and her production employed out-of-work shipyard workers as chorus. Later, her co-translation of Happy End was produced and ran for a year at the Polish National Theatre and subsequently received another production at the Theatre of the Baltic. Her production of Shakespeares Loves Labours Lost in Czech Republic was nominated for Best Theatre Production of 1999 in the major Czech theatre journal Divadelni Noviny. In 1998, Ms. Hayes was awarded a United States Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Poland, where she had been a journeyman actor at Jerzy Grotowskis Polish Theatre Laboratory for several years. This time she directed Three Tall Women at Teatr Wspolczesny. In Seoul, Korea she completed pre-production for her production of Killer Joe with Ka Byun Theatre. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Ms. Hayes production of The Food Chain at the Circle Theatre was chosen as one of the Top Ten Productions of 2000? by the Dallas Morning News. In 1995, she was the recipient of the Austin Circle of Critics Award for Best Director-Drama for Fuente Ovejuna. She directed My Sister in This House for Wingspan Theatre, which was cited by two reviewers at one of the top productions of 2009. She was cited by Alexandra Bonifield, Criticalrant.com, as one of six directors in the ...Read More