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Illana Stein

Illana Stein is a New York-based director. NYC credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queens Players/Secret Theatre), The Offering (Network Festival, Best Play), or what she will (FringeNYC’12, Directing Award), Stop Kiss (Sanguine Theatre Company), The Matthew Portraits & No Stranger There (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival), Pearl Theatre Company Readings/Pick Your Poison. Director for NYC Companies: NY Madness (Resident Director), Writopia Lab, UglyRhino:TinyRhino, Fresh Produce’d, Working Theater Directors Salon. Assistant directing: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, Hangar Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Theatre for a New Audience (Tamburlaine the Great, NY Times Critics Pick). Member of 2012 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. www.illanastein.com 

Does Freedom of Speech Include the Right to Offend?
Essay

Does Freedom of Speech Include the Right to Offend?

6 May 2015

Illana Stein reports on the perceived and projected possible ramifications of burning the Quran on stage during a production of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great.