Andrei Belgrader

Associate Professor of Theatre Practice

Teacher and director Andrei Belgrader has been a master teacher of acting and directing at Yale University, a professor at UCSD, and head of the directing department at the Juilliard School. Former students include Frances McDormand, Angela Bassett, John Turturro, Tony Shalhoub, Charles Dutton, Patricia Clarkson, Liev Shrieber, Kate Burton, Chris Noth, Jane Kaczmarek and Ricardo Chavira. He received his MFA from the Institute of Theatre and Film in his native Bucharest, Romania.

His directing credits at Yale Repertory Theatre include Scapin, Troilus and Cressida, Moon Over Miami, The Miser, What The Butler Saw, About Face, Ubu Rex and As You Like It. For American Repertory Theatre, he directed Loot, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Imaginary Invalid, Ubu Rock, Servant of Two Masters, Rameu’s Nephew, The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, Measure for Measure, As You Like It and Waiting for Godot, which received Best Play and Best Director awards from the Boston Theatre Critics Circle. He has also directed Happy Days at the Goodman Theatre, King Stag at Seattle Repertory Theatre and Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. On television, he has directed numerous episodes of Monk, as well as Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Coach.

As an actor, he has appeared in the films Men of Respect with John Turturro, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle; Trusting Beatrice with Irene Jacob and Steve Buscemi; The Contenders directed by Tobias Meineke; Big Night with Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm and Isabella Rossellini; and Joe Gould’s Secret with Stanley Tucci and Ian Holm.

His adaptations for the stage include Rameau’s Nephew with Shelley Berc from Diderot’s “Le Neveu de Rameau”; Scapin with Shelley Berc from Moliere’s “Scapin”; Servant of Two Masters with Shelley Berc from Goldoni’s “Servant of Two Masters”; The King Stag with Shelley Berc from Carlo Gozzi’s “Il Re Cervo”; The Little Prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “Le Petit Prince” Bucharest, Romania; Ubu Rock with Shelley Berc from Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi,”; The Imaginary Invalid with Shelley Berc from Moliere’s “The Imaginary Invalid”; and Just As If with Shelley Berc.