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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 

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.

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