LEAR

By William Shakespeare

Adapted & Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova

A small secluded community has sworn off the rest of the world and built their own perfect haven in the woods. In this land of sacred hymns and mystical rites, matriarch Lear demands complete submission, but it's a small price to pay for utopia. When Lear decides to pass the reins to her daughters and a prodigal son returns, lines between cult and culture blur. As society strains under the weight of the old guard’s expectations and the new guard’s machinations, everyone's true self will be revealed.

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Elizabeth Dinkova (she/her) is a Bulgarian director, adaptor, and collaborative creator who explores alternative realities at the intersection of theater, film, and music in pursuit of communal transformation. She has previously worked with Shakespeare in the Woods directing & adapting Coriolanus and Hamlet. Elizabeth is the Artistic Director of Washington D.C.’s award-winning Spooky Action Theater. In 2021-22, she was an Associate Artistic Director of 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta's hub for boundary-pushing international theater. She is an alum of the Alliance Theatre’s Artistic Leadership fellowship, the Studio Theatre's Artistic Apprenticeship, and a graduate from the MFA Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, where she served as a Co-Artistic Director of the Yale Summer Cabaret and received the Julian Milton Kaufman prize for Directing. Recent projects include Richard Strauss’s opera Salome with Heartbeat Opera (NYT Critics’ Pick), Theater J’s The Berlin Diaries, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s Dead Inside (Associate Director), Spooky Action’s The Dragon, Professor Woland’s Black Magic Rock Show (also Book Co-Writer), Frontiéres Sans Frontiéres, Sonnets for an Old Century and workshop of Syrena, Rage, a play with music inspired by Stephen King's eponymous novel, the visual album TIT, inspired by Titus Andronicus and co-written with Jesse Rasmussen, at the NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, The Seagull at Serenbe Playhouse, and the opera Orfeo ed Euridice at Bel Cantanti Opera Company. Elizabeth has taught acting, directing, devising, and musical theater at the Toronto Metropolitan University, University of California Riverside, Quinnipiac University, and Queens College CUNY.