Staff
Byam Stevens, Artistic Director
Victoria L. Braim, Business Manager
Victoria L. Braim, Business Manager
Artistic Director Byam Stevens has directed for CTC: the World Premieres of The Darlings, Home Fires Burning, The Plains of Ilion, and John and Teddy; also Random Acts for the Gateway Acting Company, CTC's educational outreach company. Other productions for MTC: The Nina Variations, Tea For Three, An Almost Holy Picture, Valley Song, The Interrogation of Nathan Hale, Shirley Valentine, the American Premiere of Sixteen Words For Water. Other directing credits include: the World Premiere of the Off Broadway hit Carbondale Dreams, The Underlings by Tom Fontana and the American Premiere of Beef by David Pownall. He is a member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC).
Byam's writing projects have ranged from the Civil War play Holdouts to American Letters, a stage adaptation of Andrew Carroll's acclaimed Letters of a Nation. For American Ballet Theatre, he wrote, produced and directed the film, Exactly As I imagined It, a tribute to choreographer Kenneth McMillan. He was an Associate Producer on HBO's LATIN KINGS: A STREET GANG STORY, directed by 11 time Emmy winner Jon Alpert.
As a Dramaturg, Story Editor, and Script Analyst, he has worked on over 150 projects in theatre (including Rosenthal Prize and Steppenwolf New Play Prize winners), film and television. His essays on new play development have been published in American Theatre, Theatre Times and The Dramatists Guild Quarterly.
He has taught at American Ballet Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HB Studio, Adelphi University, Bucknell University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School. With Susan Jaffe of ABT, he is the co-founder of DanceText, a curriculum designed to develop the acting and performance skills of dancers.
Byam's writing projects have ranged from the Civil War play Holdouts to American Letters, a stage adaptation of Andrew Carroll's acclaimed Letters of a Nation. For American Ballet Theatre, he wrote, produced and directed the film, Exactly As I imagined It, a tribute to choreographer Kenneth McMillan. He was an Associate Producer on HBO's LATIN KINGS: A STREET GANG STORY, directed by 11 time Emmy winner Jon Alpert.
As a Dramaturg, Story Editor, and Script Analyst, he has worked on over 150 projects in theatre (including Rosenthal Prize and Steppenwolf New Play Prize winners), film and television. His essays on new play development have been published in American Theatre, Theatre Times and The Dramatists Guild Quarterly.
He has taught at American Ballet Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HB Studio, Adelphi University, Bucknell University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School. With Susan Jaffe of ABT, he is the co-founder of DanceText, a curriculum designed to develop the acting and performance skills of dancers.
