Artist Profiles
Gigi Buffington
Gigi Buffington has worked at Steppenwolf Theatre Company as Company Vocal Coach for three seasons. Steppenwolf: Dance Nation, Lindiwe, The Great Leap, True West, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT, The Children, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Familiar, Downstate, The Doppelgänger (an international farce), Guards at the Taj, The Minutes, Hir, The Rembrandt, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe, East of Eden. Broadway: Linda Vista, Straight White Men, King Kong Live on Broadway, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage Theater); The Thin Place (upcoming), Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Noura (Playwrights Horizons); Pass Over (LCT3); Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (Bedlam); Coriolanus (Red Bull); The Tempest (La Mama); The Merchant Of Venice (Venice, Italy); Elizabeth R: texts & beheadings (BAM, The Folger); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Maids (director), Pericles, Othello, An Illiad, The Seagull, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III (American Players Theatre). Film: (currently) Spike Lee’s Prince of Cats. Buffington is an Associate Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. AEA, SAGAFTRA, VASTA.
Past Productions
- The Christians
- Linda Vista
- Pass Over
- Mary Page Marlowe
- Visiting Edna
- BLKS
- You Got Older
- Guards at the Taj
- Downstate
- Familiar
- A Doll's House, Part 2
- The Children
- True West
- La Ruta
- MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT
- The Great Leap
- Lindiwe
- Dance Nation
- Bug
- The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington
- King James
- Catch as Catch Can
- Choir Boy
- BUG