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Marcela Lorca
- Office Phone: 612-225-6087
- E-mail: marcelorca@aol.com
Marcela Lorca became Movement Director for the Guthrie Theater in 1991, and has since coached more than 100 plays. She is also Head of Movement for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training program. At the Guthrie she has choreographed over 20 plays including The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Merrily We Roll Along, Blood Wedding, Sweeny Todd, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can’t Take It With You, Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Lysistrata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and A Christmas Carol.
Her directing credits include Blood Wedding at the Guthrie Lab and Missouri Repertory Theater, Confluence at the Guthrie Dowling Studio, Bring Love to My Doorstep at the Guthrie Lab, Bye Bye Margarita by Gavin Lawrence, In Darkness by Kevin Kling, If You Could Only touch My Heart, Raw and Walking Around at the Southern Theater, and co-direction of The Long Walk and I Keep Walking on Sinking Sand with Thomas Prattki at the Guthrie Lab.
Most recently she directed/choreographed Found at Mixed Blood Theater, Antigone at the University of Minnesota, choreographed The Winters Tale at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Persians at Washington Shakespeare Theater, A Light in the Piazza at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, and Pericles at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
She has also worked at the National Actor’s Theater and Signature Theater in New York City, Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, National Opera of the Dominican Republic, Grupo del Centro-Chilean Dance Company, and US/European tours with Jonathan Stone’s Dinner.
She has taught at New York University, US conferences, the London International School of Performing Arts and the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training. She is a recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artist, and a McKnight Choreographic Fellowship.