DIRECTOR RESUME
Justin Cimino
THEATER DIRECTOR and DEVISER
justincimino519@gmail.com
DIRECTOR
Everybody (Staged Reading)
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins | Gibney Dance | Upcoming, 2025
Bobbie Clearly
Alex Lubischer | Court Square Theatre | Upcoming, 2025
Stupid Fucking Bird (Staged Reading)
Aaron Posner | Gibney Dance | 2025
Saidah Gets Closure Devised Piece
Union Hall | 2025
You Got Older (Staged Reading)
Claire Barron | Gibney Dance | 2025
Dance Nation (Staged Reading)
Claire Barron | Terry Knickerbocker Studio | 2025
Cyrano de Bergerac (Staged Reading)
Martin Crimp | The Center at West Park | 2025
Pass Over
Antoinette Nwandu | The 14th Street Y | 2024
Remember You Must Die Devised Piece
3AM Theatre | 2023
In These Mountains Devised Piece
3AM Theatre | 2023
The Mountaintop (Staged Reading)
Katori Hall | Abrons Arts Center | 2023
EVE
Cat Cimino | MITU580 | 2020
Nothing Left To Do But Go Devised Piece
Chez Bushwick | 2019
Mary Stuart
Friedrich Schiller | Poulton The Center at West Park | 2018
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Devised/Directed pageant-style shows with children, teens, adults, and Senior Citizens in Alabama with theatre nonprofit Zara Aina (2018-2025)
Artistic Director of Zara Aina, a theater nonprofit bringing theater to at-risk youth in Madagascar, Alabama, and the tristate area (2018-2023)
Founder and Artistic Director of NYC-based theater company Pigeonholed (2016-2020)
Devised/Directed clown/dance piece with Smashworks Dance for The Tank’s Ladyfest and residency at TheatreLab (2019)
Devised/Directed a piece with Senior Citizens as a Queens Council on the Arts SUCASA Grant Recipient (2019)
Assistant Director, The Tempest, The Public Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2018)
Devised/Co-Directed King Lear w/ Stevie Walker-Webb and theater nonprofit Zara Aina in Madagascar (2017)
EDUCATION
BFA NYU Tisch: The Meisner Studio (Outstanding Achievement in Studio), RADA, Stonestreet Studios
A KICKIN'/ROCKIN' CHORUS
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SOLOS
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A BIG ENTRANCE WITH SOUND
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A BIG EXIT WITH SOUND
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BACK UP FOR THE SOLOISTS
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A MOMENT OF BEAUTY
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CHOREOGRAPHY
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A KICKIN'/ROCKIN' CHORUS • SOLOS • A BIG ENTRANCE WITH SOUND • A BIG EXIT WITH SOUND • BACK UP FOR THE SOLOISTS • A MOMENT OF BEAUTY • CHOREOGRAPHY •
TEACHER RESUME
Justin Cimino
Teacher of ACTING, MOVEMENT, CLOWN, and DEVISING
justincimino519@gmail.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Pace University, Sands College of Performing Arts
New York, NY | February 2022-Present
Teaching BFA Acting I, BFA Acting II, Movement I and IV, and Acting for Commercial Dance students. Incorporating Grotowski, Meisner, Clown techniques into these foundational acting classes meant to focus actors and dancers on physicality, imagination, creativity, and play. Led full devising process/ directed show for Movement IV. Scene study for Acting II.
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, The Meisner Studio
New York, NY | January 2015-Present
Teaching Play and Clown I and II to undergraduate students and Summer High School students in The Meisner Studio.
Terry Knickerbocker Studio
Brooklyn, NY | July 2019-Present
Teaching Clown Intensives, Clown I, Clown II, Clown III, and Clown IV as part of the Two Year Meisner Conservatory curriculum. Clown III and Clown IV incorporate solo and group devising techniques. Directing devised final project sharings for Clown III and Clown IV.
Designing and building Summer High School Program focused on HS students creating their own work.
Teaching Clown and Improvisational Creation as part of the Program and directing devised final sharing.
Terry Schreiber Studio
New York, NY | April 2021
Teaching “The Devising Actor”—a hybrid Clown and Devising Class incorporating the “Moment Work” of the Tectonic Theater Project—as part of the One Year Conservatory Program, and directing a final project sharing.
The Studio/NY
New York, NY | June 2016-January 2021
Teaching Clown I and Clown II in the Summer Intensive Program, and in the Nine Month Conservatory Program.
Teaching a Clown/Scene Study Combo Class.
Leading the Devising Process/Directing the culminating Devised Project for the Nine Month Conservatory Program.
OTHER TEACHING ARTIST EXPERIENCE
Zara Aina
New York, NY | May 2012-Present
Advisory Board Member, Former Artistic Director, and Teaching Artist for nonprofit that brings theater and clowning to at-risk youth in Madagascar, Alabama, and the tristate area.
EDUCATION
• Apprenticeships: Clown with Lucas Caleb Rooney and Bryce Pinkham
• Training: BFA NYU Tisch: The Meisner Studio (Outstanding Achievement in Studio), RADA, Stonestreet Studios
• Acting: Victoria Hart, Fritz Ertl, Robert O’Hara
• Clown: Frank Deal, Lenard Petit, Lucas Caleb Rooney, Bryce Pinkham, Jeremy Stockwell
