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Christopher Diercksen

Christopher Diercksen is a director, developer of new plays, and the Artistic Director of Team Awesome Robot. Directing credits include: That True Phoenix by Daniel John Kelley (Team Awesome Robot); Rush by Callie Kimball (Team Awesome Robot); Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (NY Opera Exchange); The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens by Kari Bentley Quinn (The Secret Theatre); By Rights We Should Be Giants by Nadia Sepsinwol and Tim Van Dyck (Lunar Energy Productions); The Seagull by Anton Chekhov translated by Graham Schmidt (Wandering Bark Productions). He previously served as Managing Director for the New Voices Project at the Secret Theatre, Literary Manager for Lunar Energy Productions, and Associate Technical Director for the New York Neo-Futurists. Christopher is a graduate of Albright College and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

Essay

Producing Advice from the Company that Named Themselves Team Awesome Robot

Part Three

31 March 2017

Team Awesome Robot wraps up their series on producing independent theatre in New York City.

Essay

Producing Advice from the Company that Named Themselves Team Awesome Robot

Part Two

16 October 2016

The second dispatch from Team Awesome Robot on producing independent theatre in New York City.

Essay

Producing Advice from the Company that Named Themselves “Team Awesome Robot”

Part One

6 June 2016

In the kick-off to this new series, Christopher Diercksen, Artistic Director of Team Awesome Robot, share’s the company’s process for producing their second show. 

Series

Team Awesome Robot producing series 

Theatre company Team Awesome Robot documents their production timeline.

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