Victoria Townsend

Director

Victoria Townsend is a Boston-based director, teaching-artist and occasional performer who has been working with CSC since 2011. Directing Credits: For CSC: Stage2: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2024), ARC: Richard II (2024), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023), As You Like It (2022) and several Boston Theater Marathon pieces; Emerging Playwright’s Festival (Wheelock Family Theater), Cosi Fan Tutte (New England Conservatory’s UGOS Program), The Memorandum (Flat Earth Theater). Assistant Directing Credits: Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, Kiss me Kate, Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare and Leadership (CSC) and L’Egisto (NEC/UGOS). She has also served as a teaching-artist for Watertown Children’s Theater and Live Arts Education. Victoria is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College in Vermont with degrees in Theatre and English Literature and holds a certificate in Social Impact Management and Leadership from the Institute for Nonprofit Practice & Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.

Productions at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Production Role
As You Like It
Assistant Director
Apprentice Repertory Company Performances 2024
Director, Richard II
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Stage2 2024
Director
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Stage2 Student Matinees 2024
Director
Apprentice Repertory Company Performances 2023
Director- "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Apprentice Showcase 2022
Artistic Programs Manager/ Director of As You Like It
Stage2: Romeo & Juliet 2015
Assistant Director
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Assistant Director
The Boys From Syracuse
Artistic Programs Coordinator

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