David Bridel
Director of Movement

Senior Lecturer

David Bridel is a stage director, choreographer, playwright and master teacher of acting. For Academy Award winner William Friedkin, he has choreographed Ariadne Auf Naxos (Los Angeles Opera), Salome and Das Gehege (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich). For the MFA at UCLA, he wrote and directed I Gelosi (2006), and The Death of Mayakovsky (2007). For the Franklin Stage Company, where he is co-Artistic Director, he has directed A Doll's House, What the Butler Saw, Hedda Gabler, Eurydice, Dog in the Manger, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Lesson & The Chairs, Uncle Vanya, and co-directed The Tempest. He has written and directed The Heretic Mysteries and The Legend of the Dead Soldier. Other directing includes Medea (Cal Rep), Glengarry Glen Ross, Ivanov, No-one Knows How (New York), Fortinbras (Crossroads New Jersey), The Tower, The Mill on the Floss, The Misanthrope, As You Like It (Tel Aviv), Rhinoceros (London), and The Taming of the Shrew (Bloomsbury Theater, London, and European Tour). His other plays include The Last Girl, Shreds & Fancies (London New Play Festival), Death of an Actress (Southwark Playhouse), 100 Years of Enchantment (Oval House and Union Chapel), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Mainbrace Theatre), The Story of Peter Vanicek (Nitra International Theater Festival, Slovakia), and The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon. Mr. Bridel has taught and directed for many of the leading actor-training programs at drama schools and universities across the United States including SUNY Purchase, UCLA, Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, Rutgers University, NYU (the Atlantic School), and The Actors Center in New York. He is co-founder and master teacher of Studio Six, LA's first Clown School.