SARna LAPINE (director)

Sarna is a New York-based director and developer of new work. Upcoming: Annie Get Your Gun (Bay Street Theater) and the West Coast premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Berhardt/Hamlet (Geffen Theater). Recent work includes: The Rape of Lucretia (Boston Lyric Opera); Noises Off (Two River Theater); Into the Woods (Juilliard); Frost/Nixon (Bay Street Theater); You Are Here, a new musical (Goodspeed Musicals); Photograph 51, Japan premiere; Sondheim on Sondheim with the Boston Pops and the L.A. Phil; and the critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park With George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. Additional regional credits include: Tribes by Nina Raine, Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz, Hope and Gravity by Michael Hollinger, Waiting For Lefty by Clifford Odets, and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Sarna directed the second national tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific and was Associate Director of The National Theatre’s WarHorse (North American Tour and Japan production). She began her New York career at Lincoln Center Theater as Bartlett Sher’s assistant director on The Light in the Piazza. She continued her work with him on the Tony-award winning revival of South Pacific, as well as the new Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! She holds an MFA from Columbia University.