ABOUT
Red Lab Productions is an international collective dedicated to cultural diplomacy through art and performance. We have performed in New York, Tbilisi, Yerevan, and London, in galleries, opera halls, black boxes and historic theatres. A company driven by a commitment to cultural cross-pollination of artists and audience.
IRINA GACHECHILADZE | Artistic Director and Founder
Is a New York-based stage and opera director and choreographer. Recent productions include the world premiere of Boris Akunin's Hamlet. A Version (Red Lab), The Seagull (TheatreLab); The Breadbaker’s Apprentice, Nicholas and Alexandra, and High Above the City (all with Amios at the Kraine Theatre); and the operas Suor Angelica by Puccini and L’enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel at Westminter Choir College. International productions include Mozart’s Don Giovanni (National Armenian Opera in Yerevan); Eugene Onegin, after the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin (Marjanishvili Theater, Tbilisi, Georgia), and Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone (Salon Opera, London). A native of the Republic of Georgia, she holds a master’s degree in stage directing from the Russian Academy of Performing Arts (GITIS, Moscow). She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and also has extensive film and visual arts credits. Her films An Apple and Stigma received awards at the Kinoshok Film Festival in Anapa, Russia.