Plays Directed

Productions

THE CHILDREN by Lucy Kirkwood
Next Act Theatre – 2025

OLD COMISKEY PARK by Peter Filichia
Within These Walls Monologue Festival, Forward Theater Co. – 2021

HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett
Renaissance Theaterworks – 2020

BOSWELL by Marie Kohler (co-directed with Laura Gordon)
Edinburgh Fringe Festival – 2019

DEAR ELIZABETH by Sarah Ruhl
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre – 2015

THE KREUTZER SONATA by Nancy Harris
Renaissance Theaterworks – 2015

HONOUR by Joanna Murray-Smith
Renaissance Theaterworks – 2012

A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT by Christopher Fry
Renaissance Theaterworks – 2012

Play Readings

THE CHILDREN by Lucy Kirkwood
Third Avenue Playhouse (via Zoom) – 2021

DUCK by Christine Kallmann
St. John's on the Lake – 2017 

DUCK by Christine Kallmann
Brink New Plays, Renaissance Theaterworks – 2016

TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell
American Players Theatre – 2016

FOG by Eugene O’Neill
American Players Theatre – 2016

CENSORED ON FINAL APPROACH by Phylis Ravel
Milwaukee VA Medical Center – 2013

BUS STOP by William Inge
Renaissance Theaterworks – 2008

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde
Renaissance Theaterworks – 2005

  • “Director Marie Kohler has mounted a remarkable production that always engages, and is, at times, extremely moving.”

    Shepherd Express, 2020, HAPPY DAYS

  • “Laura Gordon and Marie Kohler interpret the script thoughtfully, sometimes playfully, like expert codebreakers giving intention to the words…”

    OnMilwaukee.com, 2020, HAPPY DAYS

  • “One of the many things to like in the Chamber production is how Kohler and her cast reflected these changes through Bishop and Lowell’s respective dramatic arcs.”

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2015, DEAR ELIZABETH