Edgar Landa
Director, Producer, Actor
Edgar is the Managing Director of Son of Semele Ensemble that was profiled in the December 2004 issue of American Theatre Magazine. He has also acted in, directed and produced many SOSE shows and serves on the Board of Directors. Edgar is a member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA where he serves on the faculty as a Fight and Text instructor and has worked extensively in their nationally recognized education programs. He has led numerous workshops in theatre, Shakespeare, and Fight with students at middle and senior high schools around the country and has taught in the theatre departments of Florida State University, Chapman University and USC. In the fall of 2006 he joined the faculty of the new MFA Acting Program at USC.
As a director Edgar most recently directed the world premieres of King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free! by Aaron Henne and Preludes & Fugues by John Glore; guest-directed/staged violence for Titus Andronicus at Cal State University Long Beach; and guest-directed the premiere of La Ofrenda at Cal State University Los Angeles. Other directing credits include Romeo & Juliet (Arizona State University), Stand and Deliver (Cal State University Long Beach), Lalo (CTG/Ricardo Montalban Theater), The Comedy of Errors (Vox Humana Theatre), and Richard Foreman's Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good (Son of Semele Ensemble). He directed the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Animal Farm for Son of Semele Ensemble that garnered 2 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (out of 7 nominations) for Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical in a Smaller Theatre. At the Mark Taper Forum, Edgar has worked as a literary and directing assistant in The New Works Festival and served as the assistant to director Lisa Peterson on Culture Clash's Chavez Ravine.
Recent acts of violence include TheBrothers Karamozov at Circle X Theatre Company; Homebody/Kabul at the Mark Taper Forum; the West Coast Premiere of Nilo Cruz' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Anna In The Tropics at South Coast Repertory; King Lear at the MET Theatre; and Othello at Shakespeare Orange County (for which he received a 2004 NAACP Theatre Award nomination). He also recently appeared in and staged violence/special FX for The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Florida Studio Theatre.
Edgar is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab & the Directors Lab West and is a graduate of the USC School of Theatre. He serves on the Diversity Advisory Committee for Center Theater Group and on the Board of Directors for EdgeFest. Edgar currently works as a Foreign Levies Coordinator for the Writers Guild of America west.
