Ted Gorodetzky has staged numerous plays and musical productions, including premieres at Long Leaf Opera Festival, NYWIFT, Theatre 80, Adelphi University, and Rising Sun Performance Company. He is a founding member of The Lab, a multidisciplinary production company, and the arts collective ToteM GamBol, with which he has written numerous works.
Full Director Bio ↓
Director/Writer Bio
As a director, Ted has staged numerous plays and musical works, and brought his talents behind the camera as well.
Recent directorial work includes Masks at The National Opera Center, Vultures with Rising Sun Performance Company, The Survival Show at Theater 80 at St. Marks, several titles for the Works in Progress series for New York Women in Film and Television, Chance, at the Porch Light Theatre, and the original chamber theater piece, Mercury Falling, which premiered at the Long Leaf Opera Festival in Raleigh, NC. Based on the life and death of renowned French sculptor Jean-Louis Brian, this unique show was met with critical success and enjoyed outstanding audience reception.
“The physical interaction of sculptor and statue is viscerally staged, adding nuanced dimensions to the concept, sensitively shaped by director Ted Gorodetzky. A confident, intriguing work.” —The News & Observer
For two separate productions, with the BEAT Festival in Brooklyn and for the AOP25 Living Composer concert at The Actors Fund Arts Center, he directed the provocative “Stop and Frisk” from the full-length opera Independence Eve. The much-discussed work has received high praise and a feature in The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town.
Original multimedia has also been integrated within the fabric of some of his stagings. Recent productions Ted both directed and designed the multimedia composition include Odes to Earth and Air, an original opera about Paul and Camille Claudel, at Adelphi University; Narkissos, a multimedia recital exploring the mythology of narcissism in contemporary America which premiered in NYC at The Tank and also with Queens New Music Festival; BQE, an Urban Cantata juxtaposing city builder Robert Moses and activist Jane Jacobs, at Queens New Music Festival; and the world premiere of Bruce Bailey, a dramatic cantata depicting the work and life of the infamous NY housing advocate, at Brooklyn Historical Society for the BEAT Festival.
As a writer, Ted’s work spans a variety of forms and includes screenplays, essays, articles and stage plays. He is a founding member of The Lab, a multidisciplinary production company, and ToteM GamBol, an arts collective, with which he has written and directed numerous plays for their Equity staged reading series and directed his short film, First Time. Other film works include Swinging Blindly, Marrying Men, Have Faith, and Secret Santa Secret, based on his play of the same title, currently in post-production.
Upcoming and ongoing projects include his collaborations with co-writer Daniel Neer on Barbed Wire Waltz, a biographical cabaret of the life of composer Robert Stolz, which he will also direct, and a series of short films for Haiku NYC, an experimental music video project.