Jef Hall-Flavin

Jef is a Minnesota-based director with a varied career in theatres large and small. His most recent freelance directing projects include a world-premiere Tennessee Williams one-act play, The Parade, which he staged for the first annual Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Park Square Theatre in his home town of St. Paul, Minnesota. Jef served as Associate Producer for the Great River Shakespeare Festival in 2006, and prior to that, served for two years as the Associate Director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where directed As You Like It in a co-production with the Kennedy Center in February of 2005.

In the summer of 2005, he restaged Mark Lamos’ production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Shakespeare Free-For-All at the Carter-Barron Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park, and in Colorado for the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival. He also directed ReDiscovery readings (Lorenzaccio, Nathan the Wise), and has served as assistant director to Michael Kahn on Macbeth and Cyrano, Mark Lamos on Midsummer, and Bill Alexander on Henry IV Parts 1 and 2.

In 2003, Jef developed and directed a touring production commissioned by the Guthrie Theater called The Stuff of Dreams. He served on the staff of the Guthrie Theater for several years, and was also the artistic director of Outward Spiral Theatre Company in Minneapolis from 1998 - 2003, where he directed a critically acclaimed production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2002. Other Outward Spiral productions include Falsettos, In the Heart of America, Dog Opera, and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. He was assistant director on the world premiere of Thief River by Lee Blessing, as well as several Guthrie Theater credits: Antony and Cleopatra (Mark Lamos), Side Man (Ethan McSweeny), The Invention of Love (Joe Dowling), and Sweeney Todd (John Miller-Stephany).

In addition to directing, Jef has been an instructor, curriculum developer, and guest lecturer at many venues, including the University of Minnesota (BFA program), Concordia University, Stages Theatre Company, Hofstra University, Hamline University, Stephens College, and George Mason University.