Florie Seery came to DGSD/Yale Rep in 2020 as Associate Dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, the only graduate -level professional conservatory in the English-speaking world to offer training in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, playwrighting, stage management, technical design and production and theater management. The three-year program includes over 200 students and over 100 faculty and staff, who train and produce 14 plays at the school annually. Florie is also the Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, a LORT D theatre, which currently produces five productions a year. Recent productions include “Macbeth In Stride” by Whitney White and “Eden” by Steve Carter. Upcoming productions include Zora Neale Hurston’s “Spunk” and “Furlough’s Paradise” by ak payne. The School and the Rep work together like a medical school and a teaching hospital and have a long history of championing diverse voices. Florie is a professor in theater management. Florie is a Tony Nominator. She was a judge for the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award. She serves on the Board of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). She is a fellow at Jonathan Edwards College.
Prior to coming to Yale, Florie spent 15 years as general manager of Manhattan Theatre Club, producing work on and off Broadway, where she supervised business and production in three venues, on and off Broadway, with a $27 million budget. Significant productions include The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Ink by James Graham, August Wilson’s Jitney, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, and Ruined by Lynn Nottage, among others. She worked at Disney Theatrical Productions and Stuart Thompson Productions. Florie began her career on the long running Broadway play, I’m Not Rappaport by Herb Gardner, working for producer Jim Walsh whom she regards as her mentor. She is a member of A.T.P.A.M. She is a trustee of the Camphill Foundation and graduate of Smith College.