“Life is Theatre. Theater is life. If we’re showing what life is, can be, we must do theatre.”
~ Fefu and her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes
About
I am a director, producer, and arts administrator passionate about building inclusive and equitable theater spaces.
I direct complicated, mysterious, thrilling, charming narratives that break open biases and uplift traditionally devalued stories.
I value joy in the rehearsal room, cultivate each performer’s unique point of view, and find the little flaws in live performance beautiful.
I uncover and develop new works to reclaim and reshape the canon.
I create art rooted in community—both artist and patron.
I nurture and hold dear the artists of tomorrow, today.
In a time of cultural reckoning and increasing polarization, I believe theater must act as both mirror and balm—a space where complexity is embraced.
MILWAUKEE, WI >>> CHICAGO, IL
Bio
Mallory is Co-Artistic Director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry and was formerly Renaissance Theaterworks’ Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development where she founded Br!NK. Select directing credits: L’Appartement, Sex with Strangers, The Drowning Girls, The Understudy (Renaissance Theaterworks), All of the Everything, Lucky Numbers (Samuel French OOB), Anne of Green Gables (Constellation Stage & Screen), The Effect of Gamma Rays… (Splinter Group), Fefu and Her Friends, The Thanksgiving Play, Ring Round the Moon, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, The How and the Why (The Theatre School), These Shining Lives (Umbrella Group), and new works at the arc theatre, Forward Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Milwaukee Metropolitan Voices, Renaissance Theaterworks, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and Third Avenue PlayWorks. MFA in Directing from DePaul University. MalloryMetoxen.com
EDUCATION
MFA in Directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
BA in Theatre and Business from Cardinal Stritch University