Ulrika Brand
Ulrika Brand, she/her (Assistant Director) is a director and playwright. Her play, Yours, Isabella, tells the story of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s drive to collect art and build her Boston museum. It was performed last year at Wistariahurst Museum, supported by the Mass Cultural Council. As a member of the cooperative Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble, in Venice, CA, Ulrika directed Molière’s The Misanthrope, Strindberg’s Crimes and Crimes, and Lee Blessing’s Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music. In New York City she joined Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab and translated and directed Strindberg’s Playing with Fire for LCT’s American Living Room series (her translation was later produced by the Negro Ensemble Company). She co-directed a production of The Vagina Monologues at Columbia’s Miller Theatre and was co-organizer of the Boston Strindberg Centennial Festival and the affiliated symposium at Harvard University, where she presented and directed her translation/adaptation of Strindberg’s Crimes and Crimes. She is delighted to be working at Central Square Theatre for the first time!