Mahayana Landowne+Brief Bio
Mahayana Landowne (Theater Director)
Impossible Country (Mudbone Collecive), Medea, Antigone and Tartuffe (Baruch), Fairytale Experiment (Rubulad), MIXED (Baruch), This is Way Beyond My Remote Control (Wild Project), Picasso Project (Luna Stage), The Heiress, (Mint), and Machinal (U. of Rochester). Favorite past productions include The Skriker, Antony and Cleopatra, The Seagull, brass logic, Streetcar Named Desire, Obgynt, King Lear, and Mud. NYU-BFA-acting Yale School of Drama-MFA-directing. She is also currently working on Lush Valley, as collaborator and dramaturg with Kristin Marting. Lush Valley is performance piece about the American Dream and how it shapes and twists our lives.
She leads Workshops in Creativity through Radiant Axis (Radiantaxis.com). For more info: mahayanalandowne.org. As a Director, she is using her skills to do creative grass roots organizing for social issues including Metropolis in Motion, working to overturn the Cabaret Laws, http://www.metropolisinmotion.org, the NYC Dance Parade which brings together over one hundred dance organizations to dance down Broadway. http://www.Danceparade.org, and many art action activities that promote participatory art culture. The next event on June 11th is womenstagetheworld.org.