Gigi Buffington

Director, The Maids

Director of Voice & Text; Voice & Text Coach, Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Voice & Text Bio

Ana Cristina (Gigi) Buffington, AEA, SAG/AFTRA, VASTA

Director of Voice & Text
The Merchant Of Venice, Five Hundred Year Anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto, and Four Hundred Year Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Venice, Italy, co-production by Compagnia de Colombari and Ca Foscari; Coriolanus, Red Bull Theater Co, Michael Sexton, Dir; King Lear, (equity workshop), Bedlam Theatre Co, Eric Tucker, Dir.

Steppenwolf Theater Company Resident Vocal Coach: Mary Page Marlow, (world premiere), by Tracy Letts, Anna Shapiro, Dir., Visiting Edna, (world premiere), by David Rabe, Anna Shapiro, Dir; The Christians, by Lucas Hnath, K. Todd Freeman, Dir; Linda Vista, by Tracy Letts, Dexter Bullard, Dir; HIR, Taylor Mac, Hallie Gordon, Dir.  
APT: An Illiad, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello The Seagull, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra. 
Broadway: Patrick Stewart, A Life In The Theater; 
Downtown: The Tempest (with RegE Cathay), I Killed My Mother, LaMama, Etc; Scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Shakespeare Society, with James Shapiro, Eric Tucker, Dir.; Love’s Labour’s Lost, Public Theater; The Greene Space/WNYC: Alan Ayckbourn’s, A Small Family Business, Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations, and Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror; 
Royal Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (David Tennant and Patrick Stewart), Love’s Labour’s Lost (David Tennant), New Castle tour: The Merchant Of Venice (Angus Wright), The Taming Of The Shrew (Michele Gomez and Stephen Boxer); 
Associate Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.