Marjorie Hayes

Ms. Hayes directed Brecht/Weill’s socio-political musical Happy End for Teatr Wybrzeze, one of Poland’s professional state theatres. She was awarded an Artslink Grant for this site-specific production staged in the factory at the Gdansk shipyard where the Solidarity movement started. Subsequently, her co-translation of Happy End was produced and ran for a year at the Polish National Theatre and is now playing at the Theatre of the Baltic. Her production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost in Czech Republic was nominated for Best Theatre Production of 1999 in the major Czech theatre journal "Divadelni Noviny." In 1998, Ms. Hayes was awarded a United States Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Poland, where she had been an apprentice at Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Theatre Laboratory. This time she directed Three Tall Women at Teatr Wspolczesny. In the DFW metroplex, Ms. Hayes’ production of The Food Chain at the Circle Theatre in Fort Worth was chosen as one of the "Top Ten Productions of 2000" by the Dallas Morning News. In 1995, she was the recipient of the Austin Circle of Critics Award for Best Director-Drama. In the U.S. she has directed at Shakespeare festivals and other regional venues. As an actor, she has worked Off-Broadway, in regional theatres and in TV and commercials. In the DFW area she appeared in Buried Child at Kitchen Dog Theater, sang the title role in Always, Patsy Cline and played Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! for Casa Manana at Bass Hall. She studies Voice with John Wilkerson. She studies Song Interpretation with Betty Buckley in her Fort Worth master class.