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.
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.
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.
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