LARRY CARPENTER
61 Jane Street #5B, New York, NY 10014
Home: (212) 929-7595 - Fax: (212) 691-8261 - Cell: 917-318-1247
Email:comlarry@gmail.com - Website: Larry-Carpenter.com
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARD: Best Daytime Director
One Life to Live – 2010, 2008, 2007 and 2003
DAYTIME EMMY AWARD: Best Direction
One Life to Live – 2008 and 2007
As the World Turns – 1993
TONY AWARD NOMINATION – Best Director: Starmites! – Criterion Theatre
DRAMA CRITIC'S CIRCLE AWARD – Best Foreign Play: Privates on Parade w/ Jim Dale & Simon Jones – Roundabout Theatre Company
OBIE AWARD - Best Play – Producer: K, Impressions of Franz Kafka's The Trial
Lion Theatre Company
OBIE AWARD – Best Play – Producer: Music Hall Side Lights w/Kathy Bates –
Lion Theatre Company
INDEPENDENT REVIEWERS OF NEW ENGLAND – Best Director: The Mikado
–Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
BOB HOPE SCHOLARSHIP - Southern Methodist University
HAROLD C. CASE SCHOLARSHIP - Boston University: Cum Laude
LEADERSHIP
ONE LIFE TO LIVE – ABC, NY – Production Team: 2005 - present
AMERICAN STAGE FESTIVAL, Milford, NH – Artistic Director: 1981-99
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE THEATRE, Stratford, CT – Associate Artistic Director: 1973-75
MCCARTER THEATRE, Princeton, NJ – Associate Artistic Director: 1974-75
LION THEATRE COMPANY, NYC – Managing Director: 1977-79
HAROLD CLURMAN THEATRE, NYC – General Manager: 1980
BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL, Stockbridge, MA – Artistic Associate: 1998
SDC: Stage Directors and Choreographers Society – Executive Vice President; Chairperson, 50th Anniversary Initiative: 2001 - present
DGA: Directors Guild of America– Political Action Committee: 2009 - present.
THEATRE ROW DEVELOPMENT CORPORTATION: Task Force for HUD project to redevelop 42nd Street Theatres Off-Broadway: 1978-79
FEDAPT: Foundation for the Extension & Development of the American Professional Theatre: Member of extended training program: "Producing for the Professional Theatre” 1983
GOWER CHAMPION: BROADWAY – Associate for 42nd Street w/ Jerry Orbach & Tammy Grimes; The Act w/Liza Minnelli; Rockabye Hamlet w/Meatloaf & Beverly D’Angelo 1975-80
TELEVISION DIRECTOR
ONE LIFE TO LIVE - ABC, Frank Valentini, Gary Tomlin; Executive Producers: 2001- present
AS THE WORLD TURNS - P&G Christopher Goutman, Felicia Minei Behr, Laurie Caso, John Valente; Executive Producers: 1990 - 2001
ALL MY CHILDREN - ABC, Jean Dadario Burke, Executive Producer: 2001
GUIDING LIGHT – P&G, Paul Rausch, Executive Producer: 2001
THEATER DIRECTOR - HIGHLIGHTS
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY—Moss Hart’s Light up the Sky w/Peggy Cass & Jason Alexander; Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma
ENCORES! @ CITY CENTER: Lady in the Dark w/Christine Ebersole & Joe Morton
PLAYWRIGHTS’ HORIZONS – Anything Goes, The Mousetrap & Martin Sherman’s Cracks.
PAPERMILL PLAYHOUSE – My Fair Lady w/George Irving & Simon Jones
HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY & ALLIANCE THEATRE – Animal Crackers received the cover of American Theatre Magazine and was extended for a record run.
SOHO REP & PASADENA PLAYHOUSE – Preston Sturges’ A Cup of Coffee; World Premiere
KANSAS CITY REP & HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY – Company w/ Davis Gaines and Karen Mason
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
TRANSFERS AND TOURS: American Stage Festival productions of Starmites!, Lend Me a Tenor, Almost an Eagle, and Corpse transferred to Broadway. Feathertop was produced Off-Broadway. Sullivan and Gilbert, Peg O’ My Heart, and Squabbles have toured and been often produced regionally.
ADAPTATIONS: Huntington Theatre: Ostrovsky’s The Diary of a Scoundrel, Feydeau’s Lady from Maxims. Boston’s Wilbur Theatre: a musicalized version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Clive Revill; then Paul Benedict. Merrimack Repertory, Nickerson Theatre and Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre: A small-theatre version of A Christmas Carol – 8 seasons. Goodspeed Opera: a new libretto of Strauss’ The Chocolate Soldier. For the American Stage Festival and Asolo Theatre: A Tale of Two Cities.
FIGHT DIRECTOR: For the American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, CT: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure and Julius Caesar. For the New York Shakespeare Festival: Zastrozzi (Andre Serban) Merry Wives of Windsor (John Pasquin); For the Julliard School: Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Michael Kahn).
TEACHING
JUILLIARD SCHOOL – Drama Division; NEW YORK UNIVERSITY – Tisch
School of the Arts; AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE – Training
Program; RUTGERS UNIVERSITY – Mason Gross School of the Arts
SUNY PURCHASE – School of Theatre Performance
EDUCATION
BOSTON UNIVERSITY – School of Fine Arts – BFA: Directing & Acting
NEW YORK UNIVERISTY – MA: Individualized Study in 19th Century British Theatre
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY – Graduate Study: Directing & Acting
