CORY EINBINDER  
New York City College of Technology
Adhesive Theater ProjectArtistic Director
Email     ceinbinder@gmail.com
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Education
 
Master of Fine Arts,   Performance and Interactive Media Arts    2009
Brooklyn College,   Brooklyn, NY
 
 
Bachelor of Fine Arts / Bachelor of Arts,   Theater Arts    1994
University of the Arts,   Philadelphia, PA
 
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorNew York City College of Technology    2010 – present
 
Entertainment Technology Department. Courses include:
Scenery Design – Covering the principles of research, script analysis, drafting, and model building.
Introduction to Entertainment Technology – an overview of backstage careers and working processes in the industry.
Health and Safety – surveying the hazards and safety codes related to working in live entertainment.
Stage Carpentry – covering tool training, mathematics, and fundamental carpentry and shop skills.
 
Adjunct LecturerNew York City College of Technology     2005 – 2010
 
Entertainment Technology Department. Courses as above.
 
Substitute Lecturer, Production Management – New York City College of Technology    2008
 
Entertainment Technology Department.
Full-time faculty position and production manager of in-house events.  Taught in collaboration with other faculty members a production class and oversaw student's technical work.  Served as guidance and mentor of student internship program.  Attended and participated in department meetings, planning and developing new curriculum.
 
Adjunct LecturerPace University     2005 – 2006
 
Theatre Department.
Acting I and II – Taught Core curriculum to first year acting majors; fundamentals in Stanislavski's System, and an understanding of the major techniques of the Twentieth Century.
 
Shop Supervisor / Lead CarpenterPace University     2004 – 2006
 
Theatre Department.
Lead students in the construction of sets for theatrical production as well as in house projects, teach the fundamentals of safety, shop etiquette, use of tools, and basic carpentry techniques for the stage.
 
Shop Supervisor / Lead CarpenterEdward R. Murrow High School     2004 – 2005
 
Similar responsibilities to those at Pace University.
 
Workshop LeaderHigh School for Leadership and Public Service     2000
 
Served as acting coach for High School students working on Shakespearian monologues.  Gave instruction on:  breath and voice for the stage, working with iambic pentameter, character development, and basic script analysis.
 
Teacher / SupervisorJKST, Camp for the Creative Arts     1996
 
Taught classes in masks, acting and puppetry to ages 8 – 12.  Developed a show every two weeks from writing to performance.  Each show was based on a different theme.
 
Theater EducatorPhiladelphia Drama Guild – Outreach program     1995
 
Taught in area schools to develop students' understanding and appreciation of theater.
 
Arts Direction
Founder / Artistic DirectorAdhesive Theater Project (www.adhesivetheater.com)  1999 – present
 
Artistic Director of 501(c)3 not-for-profit theater company.  Member of ART/NY.  Receive support from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Arts Council.  Develop events (productions and fundraisers) from conception to completion.  Direct and design all productions.  Work with core group of artists to develop new works and dynamic vision for productions and company.  Create proposals and press releases, design all media – posters, programs, and advertisements.  Oversee fiscal responsibilities.

Productions include:
  Erin Courtney's The Service RoadNYTimes Critics' Pick and TimeOutNY Best Bet
  Kalle Macrides' NOIR
  The premieres of the collaboratively written I, Object! and Kirby
  R.U.R.: A Futurist Folk Opera - Adhesive's original adaptation of
    Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots
  Jake Hooker's Les Mauvais Garçons and Hysteria: HYSTERIA!
  Edmond Rostand's Chantecler
  Odon von Horvoth's Figaro Gets a Divorce
  Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening
  Chikamatsu Monzaemon's The Battles of Coxinga
 
Founder / Artistic DirectorSite Installation Theater Ensemble (S.I.T.E.)   1994 – 1996
 
Duties similar to those of Adhesive Theater Project, but with performance sites chosen to reflect the performances' content.  We performed Daniel Therriault's Battery in an electric art installation, Chantecler at the Philadelphia Zoo, In The Boom Boom Room in a Go-Go Bar, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea in a Pub, and The Pitchfork Disney in an abandoned loft where a body was found under the floorboards.
 
Producer / DirectorAxiom PhiladelphiaCerberus:  A Tri-Media Event   1992
 
Coordinated various companies and talent for arts event.  Wrote and directed performance pieces.  Generated audiences, handled advertisements and press.
 
Directing Experience
 
NOIR
Voorhees Theater, NYCCT (CUNY)
Adhesive Theater Project
 
I, Object!
Film: A Theater Festival, Brooklyn
Adhesive Theater Project
 
R.U.R.: A Futurist Folk Opera
Spring Theaterworks, Brooklyn
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Hysteria: HYSTERIA!
Big Dance Theater Festival, Brooklyn
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Chantecler
Teatro La Tea, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Les Mauvais Garçons
HERE Arts Center, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Spring Awakening
Center Stage, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Kirby
Nada Classic, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
The Battles of Coxinga
Piano Store, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
A Drop in the Bucket
Tour, NY, NJ, CT
Italian American Rep.
 
The Pitchfork Disney
Attic, Philadelphia
S.I.T.E.
 
Battery
New Arts Salon, Philadelphia
S.I.T.E.
 
Chantecler
Philadelphia Zoo
S.I.T.E.
 
Cerberus
Gallery Axiom, Philadelphia
Self Produced
 
* Directing Resume
 
Set Design
 
Tea with Chachaji
Touring, NY & CA
Making Books Sing
 
Government Inspector
Westchester, NY
John Jay High School
 
NOIR
Voorhees Theater, NYCCT (CUNY)
Adhesive Theater Project
 
I, Object!
Film: A Theater Festival, Brooklyn
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Chantecler
Teatro La Tea, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Spring Awakening
Center Stage, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
The Battles of Coxinga
Piano Store, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Video Design
 
Tea with Chachaji
Touring, NY & CA
Making Books Sing
 
NOIR
Voorhees Theater, NYCCT (CUNY)
Adhesive Theater Project
 
I, Object!
Film: A Theater Festival, Brooklyn
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Chantecler
Teatro La Tea, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Fight Choreographer
 
NOIR
Voorhees Theater, NYCCT (CUNY)
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Playing Dreidel with Judah Maccabee
Looking Glass Theater
Untitled Theater Co. #61
 
Curate's Shakespeare As You Like It
Pelican Studio
Oberon Theatre
 
Tam Lin
Producer's Club & Theater Five
Mergatroyd Productions
 
Don Juan in Outer Space
Collective Unconscious
Moliere Players
 
Lysistrata 100
Under Water Theater
Untitled Theater Co. #61
 
Macbeth
A film
Bryan Enk Prod.
 
Romeo and Juliet
Charos House
Peter Brown Prod.
 
Les Mauvais Garçons
HERE Arts Center, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Richard III
Nada Theater
Untitled Theater Co. #61
 
The Battles of Coxinga
Piano Store, NYC
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Slasher
Short film
Dragon Prod.
 
Theater Performance
 
I, Object!
Office Worker
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Hysteria: HYSTERIA!
Ensemble
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Figaro Gets a Divorce
Figaro
Adhesive Theater Project
 
Lysistrata 100
Leader of the Men
Untitled Theater Co.#61
 
House of Trash
Tobias Maggot
HERE Arts Center
 
Larry and the Werewolf
Bill Bola
Todo Con Nada
 
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Harvey Green
Todo Con Nada
 
Painted Ladies
Jimmy Colter
Italian American Rep.
 
Death of a Salesman
Stanley
Arden Theater Co.
 
Escape from Happiness
Stevie Moore
Wilma Theater
 
Rendezvous with Reality
Little Collin
Wilma Theater
 
Chantecler
Manager, White Pile, Scops
S.I.T.E.
 
Winter's Tale
Dion, Mariner, Lord
Cheltenham Arts Center
 
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Fabulous Theater Co.
 
Cabaret Bebe Babillard
Mike Boy
Big Mess Theater
 
In The Boom Boom Room
Ralphie
S.I.T.E.
 
Unidentified Human Remains
Kane
P.A.R.T.
 
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
Potlatch Plays
 
Land Without Trees
Fireboy
Actor's Center
 
Aristotle Doesn't Live...
Schwartz
Actor's Center
 
Cerberus
Gargoyle
Gallery Axiom
 
Sweet Stuff
Scooch
Cynthia Belgrave Theater
 
Film & Television Performance
 
Enlightenment
Self
Affixing Shadows Prds.
 
King of the Gypsies
Young Dave
Paramount Pictures
 
Kids Just Kids
Host (Emmy Award)          
NBC
 
Madame Butterfly                
Son
PBS Channel 13, NYC
 
Publications
 
Article, How I Did That: Within a Frame in Live Design Magazine, November / December, 2009
 
Adaptation of The Battles of Coxinga and article, Staging Anime, in the book
    Performing Resistance in Dutch Formosa, Llyn M. Scott (Ed.), 2009
 
Two short stories, The 1/3rders and 8 ball, 2007
 
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
 
Selected for WNYC / National Public Radio's Star Initiative Program, 2006
 
Member of Lincoln Center Director's Laboratory, 2004
 
Best of American Living Room Series, for Les Mauvais Garçons, 2002
 
Finalist for F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist in Theater, Barrymore Awards, 1997
 
Emmy Award, Best Children's Programming for Kids Just Kids, 1984
 
Member of Association of Resident Theaters / New York (ART/NY)
 
Member of Screen Actors Guild
 
Member of Actor's Equity Association
 
Grants
 
New York State Council of the Arts / Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Recipient, 2008
 
JPMorgan Chase / Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Recipient, 2007 & 2008
 
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs / Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Recipient, 2006
 
References
 
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