Bio
Serge Seiden is the Managing Director of Mosaic Theater Company of DC which he helped found in 2015. Seiden has led the Company from start-up, through the pandemic and through a successful leadership transition to new Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas.
From 1990 to 2015, Seiden held many positions at Studio Theatre (also in Washington, DC) including Stage Manager, Literary Manager, and Producing Director. Seiden was a key player in Studio’s 1996 and 2004 expansions, developments crucial to the re-emergence of 14th Street NW as a DC cultural hub. Seiden is a member of the faculty and a Board member of the Studio Acting Conservatory where he has taught for over 25 year. He is also a director. For Mosaic he most recently directed Birds of North America and Eureka Day. Other Mosaic credits include Ulysses on Bottles and Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies, which received the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play in 2017. In 2013, Seiden received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director/Resident Musical for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris... at MetroStage. His production of Bad Jews at Studio Theatre was nominated for four 2015 Helen Hayes Awards including Outstanding Director and was remounted in 2016. Seiden also directed Studio’s acclaimed The Apple Family Cycle. For 25 years, Seiden has been a member of the faculty of the Studio Acting Conservatory, where he trained as an actor and director. More recent directing credits include When January Feels Like Summer at Mosaic Theater, Everett Quinton’s A Tale of Two Cities at Synetic Theater, Freud’s Last Session at Theater J, and Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! at Olney Theatre Center. Other Studio Theatre credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Golden Dragon, Superior Donuts, In the Red and Brown Water, Grey Gardens, My Children! My Africa!, Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, and Old Wicked Songs. His productions at Adventure Theatre MTC--A Little House Christmas and Charlotte’s Web—were both nominated for Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Production/ Theatre for Young Audiences. |