BELLE DEL SESTO
Screenwriting - Directing - Producing
Directorial Work
Examples of Belle's directorial work, from early High School to now.
MANTIS
Writer, Director
Summer 2023
Directed at the Chain Theatre, an off-Broadway theatre in Midtown, Manhattan.​
Mo and Bee
Director, Casting
Summer 2022
Directed at the Chain Theatre.
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Won 3rd in Audience Choice Awards out of 33 shows.
12 Angry Jurors
Director, Casting, Light Design
Challenges:
A play with no entrances or exits, the simulation of a real room, overlapping dialogue and orchestrating crescendos of energy.
Fall 2018
Baskerville
Director, Casting, light design, Sound Design
Spring 2019
Challenges:
Understanding a director's place in guiding actors toward comedy.
Designing and organizing sound to create illusion of a beast in the room. A finale of 16 cues per 30 seconds for 3 minutes.
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Bye Bye Birdie
Co-director
Spring 2017
Challenges:
Gag comedy, stunts, on-stage crowd control, simultaneous scenes, working with co-director toward unified vision.
Cinderella
Director
Spring 2019
Challenges:
Making old material feel fresh for the audience, large cast and crew, quick set changes, on-stage transformations.
Serenade in Blue
Director, Writer, Cinematographer
Summer 2017
Film made to apply to film school, with the challenge of no sound.
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Shot in Chinatown, San Francisco.
Morning Doves
Director, Writer, Storyboard
Summer 2017
Produced at New York Film Academy's week-long summer program.
Other Directed Works
Radium Girls
Metamorphoses
The Mystery of Edwin Drood