Bridgette Dunlap

Bridgette Dunlap is a writer, theater director and the Artistic Director of the Ateh Theater Group. For the Ateh, she directed her adaptations of Kelly Link’s The Girl Detective, Aimee Bender’s The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Judy Budnitz’s Long Distance and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Other productions include The Odyssey (The Loft Theater); The Frog Prince, The Little Prince and her adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Grimms’ Tales (Atlantic for Kids); This is the Rill Speaking, A Dopey Fairy Tale, Sure Thing and Shut Up (Atlantic Conservatory); her adaptation of Milorad Pavic’s The Dictionary of the Khazars and Now Here by Rachel Hoeffel (Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop); The Vagina Monologues (NYU); Bobby Gould in Hell (Shuvi Productions); A Slant of Sun and her adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (FringeNYC). Bridgette is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Atlantic Theater Company and with the Sfumato Theater in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab. Bridgette wrote for Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service as their liasion to the New York Times for the past three Neediest Cases Campaigns. She is a Script Analysis instructor at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.