Pascale Florestal , Director
Pascale Florestal
Director: I Am This Place
Pascale is a lover of new play development working as the Boston Project Coordinator with SpeakEasy Stage 2018-2019. She has also directed several staged readings of new plays by Michael Hisamoto, Marcus Gardley, Obehi Janice, Phaedra Michelle Scott, Greg Lam and others. Recent dramaturgy for Christina Anderson’s play The Resurrection of Michelle Morgan with Geva Theater, Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over with SpeakEasy Stage Co-Produced with The Front Porch Arts Collective and Breathe & Imagination by Daniel Beaty with Lyric Stage Co-Produced with The Front Porch Arts Collective. She is the Education Director and Associate Producer for The Front Porch Arts Collective where she created The Young Critics Program, an educational program that strives to foster and incubate the next generation of arts critics. She is an Assistant Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music and is the recent recipient of The Greg Ferrell Award for her excellence in teaching and serving young people.
Pascale currently serves as the Associate Director for The National Broadway Tour of Jagged Little Pill. Her recent production of Once On This Island received six Elliot Norton nominations including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Musical Production. Upcoming Directing credits: Spring Awakening at Brandeis University, Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury with SpeakEasy Stage, and No Child by Nilaja Sun at Kitchen Theater Company.