VALENTINA FRATTI is a New York-based theatre professional who most recently directed a film/theatre project, VIRTUE by Emily Bohannon, featuring Margaret Colin, Tony-nominated Joshua Henry, and Paten Hughes, during the first months of the pandemic. She is primarily a theatre director and educator. Recent credits include the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman’s A Woman of the World starring Kathleen Chalfant, at 59E59, Adam Seidel’s Williston, and They Promised Her the Moon by Laurel Ollstein. Other credits include: the NYTimes' Critics Pick, Catch the Butcher by Adam Seidel (Cherry Lane Theatre); Snow Orchid, (Lion Theatre), R.U.R., (Beckett). Charles Duncombe’s Patriot Act (Castillo Theatre); Jeff Daniels’ Apartment 3A; Young Playwrights Festivals at the Cherry Lane Alternative and the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons. 

Developmental workshops and readings include The Day of the Picnic by Russell Davies (PlayPenn); Ginna Carter’s Traffic School with Elaine Stritch and Carla Cooks the War with Lynne Cohen and Kathy Kates; The Other Day by Mark Jason Williams (Robert Moss Theater); The Green Manifesto by Anne Berlin and Andy Cohen (Minetta Lane, fringenyc); By the same team, Revolution, Love Stinks (SPF Abridged Festival, Public Theatre); Little Drummer and Rocky’s First Christmas and Pocket Change. Howling Hilda by Anne Berlin and Andrew Bleckner (Robert Moss Theatre and the York Theater with Mary Testa) and The Pigeon Boys also by Berlin and Bleckner (Barrow Group NYMF); The Lemonade Stand by Matthew Fowler (IATI Cimientos Play Development Series)

She co-founded the Miranda Theatre Company, a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to developing and producing original work, inspiring hope withing stories of struggle and cpnfrontation. Directing credits for Miranda Theater Co, credits include The Book of Wren, Innocent Thoughts, Prostitutki and Near Normal. 

Valentina has authored a number of plays: Unearthed, The Male Appetite, Jerusalem Mountain, and Shooting Medea. 

Her work with commercial producer Jane Harmon led her to the position of assistant producer of the Broadway premiere production of Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo, which won a Tony Award for Best Play. 

Valentina graduated from Barnard College, studied at Circle in the Square Theatre’s two-year program, and attended private classes and workshops with Nikos Psacharopoulos and Joseph Chaiken.  

She has been on the faculty at the New School for Drama and received the Alice Kaplan Guest Artists Residency at Northwestern University. 

She is a member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers, The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and has served on the Board of Directors of the League of Professional Theatre Women for six years.