Carol Rocamora

Carol Rocamora

Dr. Carol Rocamora is an educator, translator, playwright and critic. Her three volumes of the complete translated dramatic works of Anton Chekhov have been published by Smith & Kraus. Her new play, “I take your hand in mine....,” based on the correspondence of Chekhov and Olga Knipper, premiered in September 2001 at the Almeida Theatre in London starring Paul Scofield and Irene Worth, and opened in Paris in October 2003 at Peter Brook’s Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, under his direction, starring Michel Piccoli and Natasha Parry. It subsequently toured Europe from 2003-2005, returned to Paris at the Theatre du Champs Elysees, and culminated at the Barbican Theatre in London. Now in her 19th year of teaching at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Dr. Rocamora has been the recipient of the David Payne Carter Award for Teaching Excellence. She also lectures on Chekhov and theatre history at the Juilliard School, the Yale School of Drama, and Columbia University. Formerly, she was the founder and artistic director of the Philadelphia Festival Plays at Annenberg Center. Dr. Rocamora’s new biography, Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel’s Life in the Theatre, was published in 2005. She has written about theatre for The Nation, The New York Times and The Guardian, and currently contributes to American Theatre and the Broad Street Review. She is a member of the Outer Critics Circle. She has recently completed “Rubles”, a collection of original plays inspired by Chekhov’s short stories. She is currently working on a biography entitled “Chekhov: Portraits”.

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Unpublished new plays:


Troika, an adapation of Sukohov-Kobylin’s trilogy, commissioned by NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Playwriting Program


Rubles, a collection of 15 new plays inspired by the short stories of Anton Chekhov, 2011.  (A Joke, The Bet, Sabatchka, Rothschild’s Fiddle,The Kiss, Enemies, There Came a Black Monk, The Witch, Savva’s Garden, Two Volodyas, The Overture, Mila the Healer, Romance with a Double Bass, An Equestrian Tale, Village Life, About Bliny)


Unpublished translations:


Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, a new translation by Carol Rocamora commissioned by the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, spring, 2007.


Vaclav Havel’s one act plays translated by Carol Rocamora and Tomas Rychetsky, 2005-2006.


Vaclav Havel’s The Conspirators, a new translation by Carol Rocamora and Tomas Rychetsky, commissioned by Tom Stoppard, 2003.


PRODUCTION history of new play “I take your hand in mine…”


Notable productions:


Theatres des Bouffes du Nord, Paris (a French language production) directed by Peter Brook, 2003 – 2005, with Natasha Parry and Michel Piccoli, opening in Paris at the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord and next at the Comedie des Champs Elysees; subsequently touring to Spain (Valencia, Barcelona); Italy (Rome, Perugia, Bari, Piacenza); France (Villlefranche, Reims, Amiens, Marseilles, Chartres, Namur, Chambery, Bourges, La Rochelle, Sete, Thanon Les Bains); Switzerland (Lucerne, Neuchatel, Zurich); Copenhagen, Brussels, Luxembourg, Athens; London (at the Barbican Theatre)


The Almeida Theatre, London, with Paul Scofield and Irene Worth, directed by Jonathan Kent.  September, 2001


The play has also had professional productions in Brazil, Sweden, China, Greece,  Denmark, Ireland, and throughout the United Kingdom and USA


(2005-present); and in 2012, in Prague (Vinohrady Theatre) and Istanbul (Istanbul International Theatre Festival, May 2012)


PRODUCTION history of translations of Chekhov’s major plays:


Dr. Rocamora’s translations of The Seagull,  Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard have received dozens of professional and university productions throughout the USA since their publication in 1996.


Most recent notable professional productions of Chekhov translations:


The Seagull,  Theatre J, Washington D. C.,  June-July, 2009


Uncle Vanya, Classic Stage Company, New York,  January – March


Most recent notable professional productions of Havel translations:


The Conspirators (Vaclav Havel), Orange Tree Theatre, London, August-October 2011


The Vanek Plays (Vaclav Havel).  Orange Tree Theatre, London, October – December 2008

PUBLICATIONS: books (beginning with most recent)


Anton Chekhov: A Life in Four Acts, a biography by Carol Rocamora.  (To be published by Smith & Kraus, 2012)


Chekhov In An Hour, a short biography by Carol Rocamora (Smith & Kraus, 2010)


Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel’s Life in the Theater, a biography by Carol Rocamora (Smith & Kraus, 2005)


“I take your hand in mine…”, a new play by Carol Rocamora  (Smith & Kraus, 2000)


Chekhov: The Early Plays, translated by Carol Rocamora  (Smith & Kraus, 1999)


Chekhov: The Vaudevilles, translated by Carol Rocamora  (Smith & Kraus, 1998)


Chekhov: Four Plays, translated by Carol Rocamora  (Smith & Kraus, 1996)


PUBLICATIONS: critical reviews/articles about the theatre:


2009 – present: Theatre Critic for The Broad Street Review (available on-line at www.broadstreetreview.com), regular feature writer on theatre for American Theatre Magazine


1999-2009: regular contributor about theatre to The New York Times, The London Guardian, American Poetry Review, AmericanTheatre Magazine


1999-2004: Theatre Critic for The Nation