Colton Pometta
DIRECTOR
Stage Director
Colton Pometta coltonpometta@gmail.com
INTERNATIONAL THEATER
ORDINARY DAYS (Argentina Premiere) Director Teatro Border (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
ORDINARY DAYS (French Premiere) Director Broadway au Carré (Paris, France)
THE TALE OF SALLY MCLAUREEN (U.K. Premiere) Director Edinburgh Fringe (Edinburgh, U.K.)
ISLAND SONG (French Premiere) Director Broadway au Carré (Paris, France)
FIFTH REPUBLIC (French Workshop) Director Broadway au Carré (Paris, France)
NEW YORK/TOURS
WANDA’S WORLD Director-Choreographer East Coast Tour & Off-Bway
HE SAID/SHE SAID Director National Tour
FABULOUS! Resident Choreographer Off-Bway, FabCo Productions
ALL FALL DOWN Director Write Act Repertory
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Director Primary Stages, Emerging Writers at Cherry Lane
REGIONAL THEATER
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, William Shakespeare (2023) Director Sun Valley Shakespeare
SOMETHING'S AFOOT, Vos, McDonald and Gerlach Director-Choreographer Maples Repertory Theater
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, William Shakespeare Director Sun Valley Shakespeare
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, William Shakespeare. Director Sun Valley Shakespeare
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, John Patrick Shanley Co-Director with Paul Lazar Argyros Performing Arts Center
THE WEIR, Conor McPherson (Cancelled due to COVID-19) Director Argyros Performing Arts Center
BUYER AND CELLAR, Jonathan Tolins Director Laughing Stock Theater
SOUTH PACIFIC, Rodgers and Hammerstein Choreographer Maples Repertory Theater
WANDA’S WORLD, Eric Weinberger and Beth Falcone Director-Choreographer The Charles R. Wood Theater
THE SECRET GARDEN, Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon Choreographer Townsend Opera Players
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, Gilbert and Sullivan Choreographer Townsend Opera Players
OPERA
CARMEN, Georges Bizet Choreographer New York Opera Exchange
HANSEL AND GRETEL, Engelbert Humperdinck Choreographer Townsend Opera Players
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, Giuseppe Verdi Choreographer Townsend Opera Players
THEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
PETER PAN Director-Choreographer Surflight Theater
THE WIZARD OF OZ Director Surflight Theater
ANANSI THE SPIDER Choreographer Circle in the Square & New World Stages
ROSE RED Director Maples Repertory Theater
SELECT CONCERTS, CABARETS, SOLO SHOWS & EVENTS
FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK Director Feinstein's/54 Below (NYC)
THE SONGWRITERS’ SALON Conceived and Directed Times Square Arts Center/The Triad (NYC)
(Features Broadway talent & award-
winning composers once a month.)
BROADWAY AU CARRÉ Director Carré Parisien (Paris, France)
MY STORY, Video Series by Early-Career Playwrights Director Second Stage Uptown (NYC)
A CARNER AND GREGOR CHRISTMAS Director Stage 72/The Triad (NYC)
SELDA AND DEREK AT ROCKWELL Producer and Director Rockwell Table and Stage (Los Angeles)
SAM WILLMOTT LIVE IN PARIS Director Comedie Nation (Paris, France)
EMILY KOCH in EMUL BOY 5 Director Feinstein's/54 Below (NYC)
MILES MYKKANEN: CROSSROADS Director, Co-Writer Historic Ironwood Theatre (Ironwood, Michigan)
STAGED READINGS AND WORKSHOPS
EIFFEL Director 29-Hour Industry Reading
by Marc Deren, Translated by Jessica Moss
ONE NIGHT AT THE PALACE ESCORIAL Director 29-Hour Industry Reading
by Nadav Wiesel
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Director Cherry Lane Theater
by Monica Keaton and Brough Hansen
FUNKY FRESH FAIRY TALES Director American Theatre of Actors
by Andrew Sotomayor and M.X. Soto
#MEDEA Director Skeleton Rep
by Joshua Young
BACK BEFORE I REALIZED Director Primary Stages
by Michael Brennan
WANDA'S WORLD Director BMI Musical Theater Workshop
by Beth Falcone and Eric H. Weinberger
UNIVERSITY THEATER
SARAH CREWE: Director/Adjunct Professor Concordia College
a new musical based on "The Little Princess"
TRAINING and EDUCATION
Circle in the Square Theatre School Graduate
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Study Abroad Semester
Primary Stages ESPA - Advanced Directing
Teachers: Leigh Silverman, Casey Childs, Lisa Rothe, Trip Cullman, Jen Wineman
Interlochen Arts Academy Graduate
Jon Shear's Take Action Workshop - Film Directing
Directors Lab West at Pasadena Playhouse
SPECIAL SKILLS
Dramaturgy (Shakespeare, Chekhov, Opera, Contemporary Theater, Musical Theater, Adaptations), Dialect Coaching Experience, Period Movement,
Clown Training, Lecoq, Suzuki and Laban Movement, IPA, Advanced Music Theory, Certified Stage Combat, Professional Teaching Artist, Horseback Riding, Conversational French, Basic Spanish, Basic American Sign Language
SELECT WRITING CREDITS
CLASS PRESIDENT: an election musical Librettist with Derek Gregor and Selda Sahin Published by Broadway Licensing's Stage Rights, 2022
National TYA Tour, 2016
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, William Shakespeare Additional Music and Sound Design Sun Valley Shakespeare, 2022
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, William Shakespeare Additional Lyrics, Music by Anthime Miller Sun Valley Shakespeare, 2019
THE TALE OF SALLY MCLAUREEN Adaptation and Translation (originally in French) Edinburgh Fringe, 2017
LOVE IS IN THE HAIR Libretto and Lyrics, Music by Anthime Miller Concordia College, 2017