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Daniel Elihu Kramer
Assistant Professor
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Daniel Elihu Kramer teaches directing and acting at Smith College. Much of his recent work
has focused on new play development and adaptations, and on contemporary production of Shakespeare,
including film. In 2009, he completed his first feature film, Kitchen Hamlet, a contemporary
setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet. He received a 2007 Elliot Norton Award (the Boston
area theatre awards) for Outstanding Production for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Boston
Theatre Works. In 2008, his production of The Pillowman at the Contemporary American
Theatre Company received awards for Best Production and Best Direction.
Kramer's play Coyote Tales, based on traditional Native American stories, is published by Samuel French, and has been produced by numerous theatre companies. His adaptation of James Thurber's Many Moons was commissioned and produced by Phoenix Theatre Company in 2009. He is currently writing a stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for Available Light Theatre. His play Love Suicide was workshopped in a residency at Cleveland Public Theatre and at Boston Theatre Works. He was a visiting artist at the Wexner Center for the Arts, which supported the editing of Kitchen Hamlet.
Kramer holds an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama and a BA from Haverford College, and is a member of the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC). He has been artistic director of Salt Lake Shakespeare, Associate Artistic Director of Spiral Stage, and assistant to the artistic director of Circle Repertory Theatre. Kramer was also drama editor for the Kenyon Review. As a director, dramaturg, and musician, he has worked with playwrights including Bekah Brunstetter, Wendy MacLeod, Julia Cho, Julian Sheppard, Elizabeth Wong and Bill Cain. Previous teaching includes Kenyon College (where he was chair of Dance and Theatre), Bowdoin College, Fordham University at Lincoln Center and the University of Utah.
