Brooke Ciardelli

Brooke (Wetzel) Ciardelli is an American theater and film director, producer and writer. She founded the award-winning regional theater company Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont.

Brooke (Wetzel) Ciardelli was born in Manhattan, New York. Her father, Joseph A. Wetzel (1934 - ), founded Joseph A. Wetzel Associates, a museum design firm and is currently a photographer... Her mother, Joyce E. Dickson (1934-2001), was a corporate art curator for the collections of Terence J. Fox, Greenwich, CT.

After a competitive figure skating career, Ciardelli received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, with a concentration in theater. She subsequently worked at The Williamstown Theater Festival and the Broadway general managers/producers office of Gatchell & Neufeld.

In the 1990s, Ciardelli served as Co-Producer for A Stranger In The Kingdom starring Martin Sheen ; Producer for The Junior Defenders, starring Ally Sheedy; and Co-Writer and Creative Producer for Wedding Band (My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding Reception, starring Mo Gaffney and Debbie Gibson. She served as a Producer of Special Projects for Burlington City Arts and worked for a number of years with the Burlington Jazz Festival and the Ben & Jerry’s Festival, as well as providing management services to a number of bands and singer/songwriters, including Jon Fishman’s side project Spastic, the Martin G uigui Band, the Chad Hollister Band, and others.

Ciardelli founded the Northern Stage Theater Company (Washington Post, Jonathan Finer), a non-profit, regional theater, in Burlington, VT in 1994. In 1997, Ciardelli moved the company to the historic Briggs Opera House in White River Junction (as reported in the Vermont Standard and the Vermont Times).

Ciardelli led the company as Artistic Director and CEO from 1997-2012, during which time Northern Stage produced 111 main stage productions over 16 seasons, 52 directed or co-directed 52 by Ciardelli. (Boston Herald, Terry Byrne.), and won five Moss Hart Awards for Excellence in Theater from the New England Theatre Conference.

Ciardelli also won an Addison Award for The Shrew Tamer, which she adapted and directed, and an Owl Award for Best Artistic Director.

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