Giselle Boustani-Fontenele recently completed the 2017-18 Artistic Direction Internship at Marin Theatre Company (MTC), where she associate directed Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (dir. Morgan Green), wherein she lead a high school cast of understudies to their own performance on MTC’s mainstage. At MTC, she also assistant directed Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew (dir. Jade King Carroll) and Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men (dir. Morgan Gould). Her directing credits include Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (Pentameters Theatre, London) and Dustin Lance Black’s 8 (Avery Schreiber Playhouse, Los Angeles). She was the Artistic Associate for Caesar Maximus with Bay Area site-integrated theatre company We Players and spent ten weeks with The Pasadena Playhouse’s Artistic Department as its Community Organizer Summer Intern. Giselle is a 2017 graduate of Boston University (BU), where she majored in Anthropology and Religion and completed a rigorous Theatre Arts minor at the BU College of Fine Arts. At BU, she studied dramaturgy and dramatic literature under dramaturg Ilana M. Brownstein and British contemporary theatre under British theatre critic Aleks Sierz. Giselle enjoys spoken word, trying not to fall off her skateboard, and is fascinated by the power of communal art.