Brooke O’Harra

Brooke O’Harra (she/her) is a professional theater director and an artist.

She was co-founder of the NYC based company The Theater of a Two-headed Calf and has developed and directed all 14 of their productions including the OBIE Award winning Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (2007),Trifles (2010), and the opera project You, My Mother (2012/13).

Brooke conceived, directed, wrote for, and performed in the Dyke Division’s live serial Room for Cream (Four seasons — 28 episodes) at La Mama, ETC 2008-10 and at the New Museum 2017.

She wrote, directed and produced a nine-part research and performance project titled I am Bleeding All Over the Place: Studies in directing or nine encounters between me and you. The project culminated in a book of essays on directing titled Who is in the Room? (Routledge EDI Series released Sept. 2024).

Current projects include an upcoming tour a large-scale performance project titled Be Holding with poet Ross Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, and the new ensemble Yarn/Wire.