Pascale Florestal

Pascale Florestal is a Director, Educator, Writer and Collaborator based in Boston, MA. Her recent directing credits include; Back The Night by Melinda Lopez at Boston College, We Are Proud to Present… by Jackie Sibblies Drury at Brandeis University, Marie & Rosetta by George Brant at Greater Boston Stage Company, Code Listen by Shaw Pong Liu at The Millenium Stage of The John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, Shrek The Musical! (Greater Boston Stage Company), and An Education in Prudence (Open Theatre Project). Pascale is a lover of new play development working as the Boston Project Coordinator with SpeakEasy Stage 2018-2019. She has also directed several staged readings of new plays by Michael Hisamoto, Marcus Gardley, Obehi Janice, Phaedra Michelle Scott, Greg Lam and others. As an Assistant to the Director she has worked with Kimberly Senior, Liesl Tommy, Billy Porter, Paul Daigneault and M. Bevin O'Gara. Pascale is also a dramaturg, recently working on Pass Over by Aniontte Nwandu with SpeakEasy Stage co-produced with The Front Porch Arts Collective. She also serves as the Education Director for Front Porch Arts Collective where she created the Summer Reading Series and The Young Critics Program, an educational program that strives to foster and incubate the next generation of arts critics. Her ten minute play Blended premiered at the Open Theater Project Slam in December 2019. She currently works as the Massachusetts Municipal Arts Response Coordinator with the Barr Foundation and Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture with the City of Boston. She is an Assistant Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory where she teaches Devised Theatre.