BEN TOSTADO
Director/Choreographer
DIRECTING & CHOREOGRAPHY CREDITS
The Great Pie Robbery…Or, We Really Knead the Dough
(Off-Broadway Production 2017)
Kiss Me Kate (concert w/Melissa Errico)
Spike
Sinking Star
Flicker and a FIrestarter (AEA staged reading & workshop)
Songwriters Showcase 2016
Midnight Cowboy (AEA staged reading)
The Great Pie Robbery…Or, We Really Knead the Dough
The Tiny Mustache (Workshop)
War, She Said Vashti! A New Musical
Mottel The Cantor’s Son
Sunshine (World Premiere)
Company (staged reading)
Diary of a Madman
Little Shop of Horrors
Orpheus and the Underworld
Godspell
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Assistant Director
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Asst. Choreographer
Asst. Choreographer
Choreographer
Playlight Theatre Company
Dir. Will Pomerantz; Bay Street Theatre
The Secret Theatre
Playlight Theatre Company
Playlight Theatre Company
Playlight Theatre Company
Playlight Theatre Company
Playlight Theatre Company
Playlight Theatre Comapny
The Gallery Players
Merkin Hall, The Kaufman Center
Merkin Hall, The Kaufman Center
Merkin Hall, The Kaufman Center
Ithaca College (student production)
Ithaca College (student production)
Ithaca College (mainstage production)
Ithaca College (mainstage production)
Starlight Amphitheatre, Burbank, CA
*Youth Prouductions available upon request.*
RELATED CREDITS
Playlight Theatre Company Founder/Artistic Director
The Peanut Gallery at The Gallery Players Teaching Artist/Co-Founder
Tada! Youth Theatre Teaching Artist/Director-Choreographer
Summer Stars at Astoria Performing Arts Center Director-Choreographer
Project Broadway at Playhouse on the Green Teaching Artist/Program Director
Lucy Moses Musical Theatre Workshop at The Kaufman Center Director-Choreographer
The Santaland Diaries at The Gallery Players General Manager
Grind, Mufti Series at The York Theatre Observer, dir. Annette Jolles
Also an active member of Actor’s Equity Association.
EDUCATION
Ithaca College, BFA Acting
Moment Work Training Lab, Tectonic Theatre Project
Manhattan School of Music, Professional Musical Theatre Workshop (with Paul Gemignani, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Carolann Page)
Terry Schreiber, Scene Study
Andrew Byrne, Voice
Gwen Hillier, Daytime Drama (General Hospital)
Julie Tucker, Primetime Drama (Law & Order: SVU)
Broadway Dance Center, Jazz, Hip Hop, Theatre
ACTING RESUME available upon request
TEACHING RESUME available upon request
REFERENCES available upon request