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Maura Krause (Director)
Maura Krause is an award-winning director, creator, and producer of new work. She was the Artistic Director of Barrymore Award-winning company Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first producing playwrights collective, as well as a National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence at InterAct Theatre Company. She is currently proud to be an Associated Artist with Applied Mechanics. Maura has also worked with the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, EMP Collective, PlayPenn, Arcadia University, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and Tiny Dynamite, among others. Selected recent projects include Boycott Eshter (Azuka Theatre), Red Ash Mosaic (Cleveland Public Theatre), Breathe Smoke by Douglas Williams (Orbiter 3), Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please (The Greenfield Collective), This Is On Record (Applied Mechanics), and Now More Than Ever by Val Dunn (independently produced).