Pascale Florestal is a Freelance Director, Dramaturge, Educator, Writer and Collaborator based in Boston, MA.
As a lover of new play development Pascale has worked as the Boston Project Coordinator with SpeakEasy Stage in 2018-2019. She has directed several staged readings and has produced several new play readings in her role at The Front Porch Arts Collective. Pascale serves as the Associate Artistic Director of The Front Porch Arts Collective where she produces main stage shows, readings, community events and educational programming while Directing productions and readings. Pascale is an Assitant Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music she is the 2025-2026 Monan Professorship in Theater Arts at Boston College.
Her production of Once On This Island received six Elliot Norton Nomination and won Outstanding Choreography in 2022. Pascale's production of Fairview with SpeakEasy Stage was also nominated for two Elliot Norton Awards including Best Direction of a Play. In 2025 Pascale's production of Next to Normal won three Elliot Norton Awards including Outstanding Musical.
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Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Pascale is a first generation American from Haitian descent. She was introduced to theater accidentally in high school when she stumbled into the drama room looking to get community service hours for graduation. Since then she has been hooked on theatrical experiences that shed light on narratives of the global majority and the queer community. She graduated from Ithaca College with her Bachelors of Arts in Theater Studies. During her time in college she studied Theater in London through the IC London Program and spent a semester at the National Theater Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theater.
As an Assistant Director Pascale has worked with Timothy Douglas, Liesl Tommy, Billy Porter, Paul Daigneault, and M. Bevin O'Gara. She was the Associate Director to Kimberly Senior on the world premiere of Our Daughters, Like Pilars by Kirsten Greenidge at the Huntington Theater. Pascale was also the Associate Director to Gil Rose for The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis with Odyssey Opera.
Directing credits include; Top Girls with Boston University, No Child with Gloucester Stage, World Premiere Is This America? with White Snake Projects, Next to Normal with Central Square Theatre and The Front Porch Arts Collective, World Premiere Your Town with Central Square Theatre, MidSummer Kinda? with Suffolk University, DIASPORA! with New Repertory Theatre, Fairview with SpeakEasy Stage, Spring Awakening with Brandeis University, The Colored Museum with Umbrella Performing Arts Center, Once On This Island with SpeakEasy Stage, Everybody with Boston Conservatory, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing with Emerson College, I am this place with Plays in Place, La Divinia with Opera Del West, Deferred; An Episodic Radio Play with NorthEastern University, Virtual Attendance with The Huntington Theater Company; Dream Boston Audio Plays, Tam’s Two Dads with The Theater Offensive, Back The Night at Boston College, We Are Proud to Present.. at Brandeis University, Marie & Rosetta at Greater Boston Stage Company, Code Listen at The Millennium Stage of The John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, Shrek The Musical! with Greater Boston Stage Company, An Education in Prudence with Open Theatre Project and Kentucky with Pine Manor College. Pascale served as the Associate Director for The National Broadway Tour of Jagged Little Pill from 2022 to 2024..