Logan Vaughn

Episode:
THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT by Mfoniso Udofia

Logan Vaughn is a New York based Artist and Director of new work. In 2008 Logan was awarded the Goodman Theater's prestigious Joyce Arts Fellowship in Casting and subsequently worked as a casting director in the Tony Award winning theaters' casting department for five seasons. In addition to the Goodman she led casting for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory, Cardinal Stage and Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival.

Logan was Playwrights Horizons Director in Residence 2012-2013. In 2012. Logan was also named a Member of the Director's Lab, Lincoln Center. As a director she has worked with The Public Theater, MCC Theater, Sundance, Kansas City Rep Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Apollo Theater, Geva Theatre, Playwrights' Center, The Playwrights Realm, Mosaic Theatre, National Black Theatre and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work in film includes assisting the Academy Award winning producing team behind Precious and Monster's Ball as well as serving as head of casting for several award winning independents. Logan received a 2019 Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Direction of a Play for the New York Premiere of Loy A. Webb's The Light at MCC Theater and won Broadway World's 2019 Outstanding Play Production for the World Premier of America V. 2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro by Stacey Rose. And most recently directed the World Premiere of Legacy Land (The Kilroys List 2020) by Stacey Rose at Kansas City Repertory Theater. Logan is a Professor of Acting at the University of Missouri Kansas City. In 2019 she was named Associate Artistic Director of Ojai Playwrights Conference, and today serves as the Associate Director of the First National Broadway Tour of Ain’t Too Proud-The Life and Times of The Temptations.  

 In television she has shadowed the FOX Network (APB) and the Paramount Network (WACO Mini-Series). Logan trained professionally as a dancer for fifteen years with various companies including Gus Giordano and Visceral Dance. She has a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film from Columbia College Chicago and has been featured in national and international publications including Glamour, Essence, Lucky and Globetrotter Magazine. Logan is represented by Leah Hamos & Vern Co at Gersh and Louise Keshaviah & Chelsea Benson at Echo Lake Management.