Karen Azenberg (President) was just named Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City where she has directed and/or choreographed productions of RENT, NEXT TO NORMAL, MISS SAIGON, and LES MISERABLES. Most recently she directed A CHRISTMAS MEMORY for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival her previous work there has included choreography for PETER PAN, A CHRISTMAS CAROL-THE MUSICAL, and BEEHIVE. . In New York she directed and choreographed PROM QUEENS UNCHAINED, BLOCKS an early work by the Pulitzer Prize winning creator of RENT Jonathan Larson, and choreographed Richard Greenberg’s acclaimed THE DAZZLE at the Roundabout Theatre. Karen’s other credits include national tours of CAROUSEL and BRIGADOON and 15 productions of WEST SIDE STORY. She directed the regional theatre premiere of LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR at the Geva Theatre in Rochester NY, OKLAHOMA (Ordway Theatre, California Musical Theatre), THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND (Cape Playhouse), I DO I DO!(Birmingham Theatre), BILOXI BLUES (Indiana Repertory Theatre),THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Augusta Opera) and MY FAIR LADY(Michigan Opera Theatre). She has received the Hollywood Dramalogue Award for outstanding choreography, Indianapolis’ Corbin Patrick award for outstanding direction and a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination in Chicago. Karen is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School and the President of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Karen can be reached at KAzenberg@SDCweb.org.
Doug Hughes’s (Executive Vice President) recent work includes Farragut North at the Atlantic Theater Company, Inherit the Wind (Tony nomination, best revival), and Mauritius at the Biltmore Theater. Doug directed Broadway productions of A Man for All Seasons and A Touch of The Poet for The Roundabout where he currently serves as Resident Director. He won the Tony Award for Best Director for his production of Doubt, and was nominated for the Tony for his production of Frozen. He has directed for The Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, MCC Theater, and at nearly every major resident playhouse in the U.S. Doug has twice won the Obie Award, once in 1996 for his production of The Grey Zone, and again in 2005 for sustained excellence. He has been nominated for The Drama Desk award four times, winning twice. Doug has twice won Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Callaway Award and has won The Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards.
Leigh Silverman’s (Vice President) Broadway credits include Lisa Kron’s Well. Her Off-Broadway credits include Liz Flahive’s From Up Here (world premiere, Manhattan Theatre Club; Drama Desk nomination), David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face (world premiere, co-production CTG/The Public Theater), Beebo Brinker Chronicles (world premiere, Hourglass Group/37 Arts); Brooke Berman’s Hunting and Gathering (world premiere, Primary Stages) and Well (world premiere, The Public Theater, The Huntington Theater and ACT, San Francisco). In the West End she directed Wit (Vaudeville Theatre). Other recent regional productions include The Road to Mecca (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Tanya Barfield’s Of Equal Measure (world premiere, Center Theatre Group); Bad Dates (Cleveland Play House) and How I Learned to Drive (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Leigh has several upcoming projects – the new musical Coraline with music by Stephen Merritt and book by David Greenspan (MCC/True Love), Lisa Kron’s Five Questions (co-production CTG/Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Daniel Goldfarb’s The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons).
Oz Scott (Secretary) is an award-winning television, theatrical and motion picture director whose credits span hundreds of television episodes and dozens of feature films, stage productions and made-for-TV movies. Oz’s directorial talents have contributed to the success of award-winning shows such as “The Cosby Show,” “The Jeffersons,” “Hill Street Blues, ” “Fame,” and “Northern Exposure.” His theater directorial credits include The Ballad of Emmett Till at the Goodman Theatre and Resurrection, which he staged at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, at Hartford Stage and again for Philadelphia Theatre Company. Oz has been nominated for a DGA award, and he has been the recipient of an NAACP Image Award, the Drama Desk Award, a Village Voice OBIE Awards for Off Broadway, a Genesis Award, and the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in LA, and on the Dean’s Council for California State University at Northridge’s (CSUN) College of Arts, Media and Communication.
Ethan McSweeny (Treasurer) made his Off-Broadway debut with the NY premiere John Logan’s Never the Sinner (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award) and his Broadway debut with the revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award). He has had the good fortune to direct more than 50 productions of new plays, classics, and revivals on preeminent stages around the country, including the Guthrie, the Old Globe, Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Alley, Denver Center, South Coast, Westport, Pittsburgh, San Jose, and George Street. Recent highlights include 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons) and 1001 (p.73), both named among the Top Ten of ‘07 by Time Out and Entertainment Weekly, Euripides’ Ion and Shaw’s Major Barbara (Helen Hayes Award nomination) in DC, Albee’s Virginia Woolf in Baltimore, Miller’s View from the Bridge & Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation (Star Tribune Award) in Minneapolis, the premieres of In This Corner and Body of Water (SD Critics Award) in San Diego, and revivals of Salesman, Cherry Orchard, and All My Sons for Chautauqua Theater Company, where he has spent the last five summers as Artistic Director, leading the Company through a phenomenal period of growth in attendance and national recognition.
Julie Arenal choreographed the original production of Hair on Broadway, which she later restaged in Europe, as well as Indians and Boccaccio. She has choreographed and directed such shows as Funny Girl in Japan and Jesus Christ Superstar in Sweden. Additionally Julie has choreographed for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Arena Theater in Washington DC, Shakespeare Festival LA and also for the NYC Opera, LA Opera, Michigan Opera and the San Francisco Opera. As director/choreographer of New York Express Hip Hop Dance Company, she toured China, Japan and Spoleto Festival Italy. Choreography for film credits include The Good Shepherd, Mistress and Great Expectations, and for PBS, American Family. Julie is one of the founders of East L.A. Classic Theatre. She was nominated for the Connecticut Critics Awards as Best choreographer, Best Director, and Best Ensemble for Hair and won Best Director and Best Ensemble. Her work is archived at NYPL at Lincoln Center.
Rob Ashford’s Broadway choreography credits include Cry Baby for which he won The Drama Desk Award, The Astaire Award, The Outer Critics Circle Award and received a Tony nomination; Curtains (Tony nomination); The Wedding Singer (Tony nomination); and Thoroughly Modern Millie for which he won The Tony Award in 2002 for Best Choreography. Rob has also worked in London’s West End. Credits include Parade at The Donmar Warehouse for which he received Olivier nominations for both Direction and Choreography; Evita (Olivier nomination); Guys & Dolls (Olivier nomination); and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Olivier nomination). At The National Theatre he did productions of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Once in a Lifetime. He recently choreographed Candide which originated at The Theatre du Châtelet in Paris and was remounted at La Scala and The English National Opera. He choreographed the film Beyond the Sea directed by and starring Kevin Spacey.
Christopher Ashley has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since October 2007. He has directed the Broadway productions of Memphis (Tony nomination direction), Leap of Faith, Xanadu (Drama Desk nomination direction), All Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), as well as the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Das Barbecu. Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died, Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others. At La Jolla Playhouse he has directed A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Restoration, Xanadu and Memphis. Other regional theaters include CTG, ART, Longwharf, Philadelphia Theater Company, Center Stage, Bay Street, Williamstown, Berkshire Theater Festival, and Intiman. He also directed the feature film Jeffrey and the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life for PBS. He is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship.
Walter Bobbie became a member of SDC in 1994 and was elected to the Executive Board in 2001. He has served on many committees and co-chaired SDC Broadway negotiations with the League. Walter directed the international hit Chicago, which won him the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and has become the longest-running revival in Broadway history. Other Broadway credits include White Christmas, High Fidelity, Sweet Charity, Twentieth Century, Footloose and A Grand Night for Singing. He has directed for NYSF, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, EST, Playwright Horizons, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Sundance, O’Neill Center, Goodspeed and served as Artistic Director for City Center’s acclaimed Encores! Series. Recent New York productions include David Ives’ New Jerusalem, Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette & Boo, and Evan Smith’s The Savannah Disputation.
Joe Calarco’s Off-Broadway credits include Shakespeare’s R&J (adaptor/director, Lucille Lortel Award, also the West End and Tokyo); Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky at Playwrights Horizons; Boy at Primary Stages; in the absence of spring (writer/director) at Second Stage; Sarah, Plain and Tall and The Summer of the Swans at The Lucille Lortel; The Audience (contributing book writer) at The Transport Group; and Fugitive Songs (Drama Desk nomination) at Dreamlight Theatre Company. He directed a national tour of Ring of Fire, and regionally his credits include Lincolnesque (world premiere) and The Glass Menagerie at The Old Globe; Assassins (Helen Hayes Award), Urinetown (Helen Hayes Award), Sideshow (Helen Hayes Award), Nijinsky’s Last Dance (Helen Hayes Award) and Nest (world premiere) at Signature Theatre; The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (bookwriter/director), The Burnt Part Boys at Barrington Stage Company; The Last Five Years (Barrymore Award Best Musical), Elegies (Barrymore nomination), M. Butterfly at Philadelphia Theatre Co.
Larry Carpenter’s New York directing credits include the Roundabout Theatre productions of The Doctor’s Dilemma, Light Up The Sky and Privates on Parade; Lady in the Dark for Encores!; Preston Sturges’ A Cup of Coffee at SoHo Rep and the Broadway production of Starmites!- for which he received a Tony nomination. Regionally, he was the Artistic Director of the American Stage Festival; the Associate Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare and McCarter theatres and Berkshire Theatre Festival. He’s directed for the Seattle Rep, Goodspeed Opera, Kansas City Rep and the American Conservatory, Huntington, Alliance and Pioneer theatres. He received his BFA from Boston University and a MA from New York University. Currently, Mr. Carpenter divides his time between theatre and the daytime drama “One Life to Live” – for which he has received multiple Emmy and Directors Guild of America awards.
Marcia Milgrom Dodge’s work as a director & choreographer has been seen throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and South Korea. She directed and choreographed the acclaimed Broadway revival of Ragtime after its sold-out run at The Kennedy Center (2010 Tony Award Nomination for Best Director of a Musical, Drama Desk Award nominations for direction & choreography, Astaire Award nomination for choreography and she received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction of a Resident Musical.) New York productions include Off Broadway’s Venus Flytrap, Seussical (Theatreworks USA, Lortel Award nomination), Cookin’, Radio Gals, Closer Than Ever, Romance In Hard Times (The Public) and The Music Man (New York City Opera.) Regional: Reprise, Maltz Jupiter, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Riverside, Bay Street, Music Circus, Goodman, Lyric Stage, Goodspeed, Huntington and Arena Stage. Exciting collaborations with Julie Andrews, Stephen Sondheim, Rupert Holmes, Robert Falls & John Logan and Des McAnuff. Television: Sesame Street and AMC’S Remember Wenn. Marcia is also a published and produced playwright. Faculty: AMDA. For more visit www.marciamilgromdodge.com
Sheldon Epps has been Artistic Director of the renowned Pasadena Playhouse since 1997. He also served as Associate Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre for four years. Mr. Epps has directed both plays and musicals at many of the country’s major theatres including Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Guthrie, Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, and Goodman Theatre. He conceived and directed the highly acclaimed musicals Play On! and Blues in the Night, which both received Tony Award nominations. Mr. Epps also has had a busy career as a television Director, helming episodes of shows such as Frasier, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Girlfriends, and many others. Earlier this year, he co-directed the Broadway production of Baby It’s You!
Michael John Garcés is the Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles where he directed Someday by Julie Marie Myatt, attraction by Page Leong and The Falls by Jeffrey Hatcher. He also wrote the play Los Illegals for the company. Other directing credits include plays at the Humana Festival such as Finer Noble Gases by Adam Rapp, dark play by Carlos Murillo, and most recently the break/s by Marc Bamuthi Joseph which co-premiered at the Walker Art Center and was also presented at the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater and REDCAT in LA. Other credits include New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage, INTAR, The Atlantic, Cherry Lane and Repertorio Español. Regionally he has worked at Hartford Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Huntington Theatre, The Children’s Theatre and Florida Stage. Michael is a recipient of the Princess Grace Statue, the Alan Schneider Director Award, and a TCG/New Generations Grant. He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
Christopher Gattelli was awarded the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies. (As choreographer) Broadway: South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin Short :Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidelity. Off Broadway: Dogfight , Altar Boyz (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk Nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award), 10 Million Miles, Adrift in Maco, tick,tick…BOOM!, I Love You Because West End/London: South Pacific, Sunday in the Park With George, tick, tick…BOOM! National/International Tours: Altar Boyz, Godspell, Grease, Pooh’s Perfect Day (World Premiere) Disney Theatricals. Sydney Opera House: South Pacific Regional: Little Miss Sunshine (La Jolla Playhouse), Kander and Ebb’s All About Us (Westport Playhouse), The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill Playhouse), Me And My Girl (Goodspeed Opera House) Tom Jones (North Shore Music Theater), O. Henry’s Lovers (Goodspeed’s Norma Terris). As director/choreographer, Off Broadway: Silence! The Musical (Time Magazine’s top 10 of 2011), world premiere of Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (Goodspeed Opera House), Radio Girl (Goodspeed’s Norma Terris), Departure Lounge at The Public for SPF’s Summer Series.
Liza Gennaro choreographed the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Most Happy Fella directed by Gerald Gutierrez and the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress starring Sarah Jessica Parker. She has choreographed Off-Broadway and in regional theaters across the country including: Roundabout Theatre, Actor’s Theatre Of Louisville, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, The Goodspeed Opera House, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Paper Mill Playhouse and The St. Louis “Muny” Opera. She collaborated with Stephen Flaherty and Frank Galati on their chamber musical Loving, Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein for the About Face Theater in Chicago and choreographed the 30th Anniversary tour of Annie. In addition to her choreographic career Liza has taught at Barnard College, Princeton University, Yale University and is currently on faculty at Indiana University. Her essay, “Evolution of Dance in the Golden Era of the American ‘Book Musical’” appears in The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical.
Wendy C. Goldberg is in her fifth season as Artistic Director of the National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Having re-established the conference as a national leader in the field, the O’Neill celebrated nine world premiere productions this past season of projects developed during Wendy’s tenure. Her directing credits include productions at Actors Theater Of Louisville, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center, Florida Stage, McGinn/Cazale, Paper Mill Playhouse and Signature Theatre. Upcoming work includes productions at The Goodman Theatre and The Guthrie. Wendy was Artistic Associate at Arena Stage from 2000-2005, has been a Member of SDC since 2000 and on the Executive Board since 2005.
Linda Hartzell has been the Artistic Director of Seattle Children’s Theatre and its Education Programs since 1984. She received her BA in Education from the University of Washington, and was a recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award from UW College of Arts and Sciences in 1994. Hartzell has directed more than 45 plays for SCT, over 35 of which were world premieres, including Busytown, Addy: An American Girl Story, Goodnight Moon, When I Grow Up I’m Going to Get Me Some Big Words, Peter and the Wolf, and Holes. Other theatre credits include: The Grapes of Wrath (Intiman Theatre), the Australian premiere of Afternoon of the Elves (Adelaide’s Windmill Performing Arts and the Sydney Theatre Company). Other recent honors include: the Gregory Falls Sustained Achievement Award from Theatre Puget Sound, Seattle’s Mayor’s Arts Award, and ArtsFund’s Outstanding Achievement in the Arts award. Hartzell has been instrumental in developing Connecting Stories, a cross-cultural exchange program with theatre artists in the U.S., The Netherlands, Syria and Iran.
Moisés Kaufman is a Tony and Emmy nominated director and playwright. His most recent play, 33 Variations was nominated for 5 Tony awards including Best Play. Previous to that, Mr. Kaufman directed the Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning play I Am My Own Wife, earning him an Obie award as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations. His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project have been among the most performed plays in America over the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also directed the film adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO, ( opening night selection – 2002 Sundance Film Festival, National Board of Review Award, Humanitas Prize, Special Mention for Best First Film at the Berlin Film Festival.) The film also earned Mr. Kaufman two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer. He is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. He is the recipient of the Joe Callaway award. Other credits include Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo (Mark Taper Forum); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Public Theater); This Is How It Goes (Donmar Warehouse); Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Rep.)
Dan Knechtges Broadway – Lysistrata Jones (Direction & Choreography), Xanadu (directed by Chris Ashley, Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination), Sondheim on Sondheim (directed by James Lapine), 110 in The Shade (starring Audra McDonald) and The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee (directed by James Lapine.) Off-Broadway – The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee at Second Stage, which earned him a Lucille Lortel Award nomination,Merrily We Roll Along for Encores! at City Center (directed by James Lapine), Vanities at Second Stage and Lysistrata Jones for the Transport Group. International credits include Der Schuh Das Manitu (Berlin, Germany). Regional theatres include – Goodspeed, Dallas Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Papermill Playhouse, Baltimore Centerstage, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Hangar Theatre. Indianapolis Opera, Opera Illinois, Surflight Theatre. TV/Film credits include Palindromes, Dark horse and White Collar, and the 2011 TV Land Awards with Liza Minnelli. Dan also choreographed FatboySlim’s #1 music video “It’s a Wonderful Night.” Dan is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and holds a BFA in theatre from Otterbein College.
Mark Lamos Artistic Director: California Shakespearean Festival, Arizona Theater Company, Hartford Stage (17 seasons), currently Westport Playhouse. Productions: Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Old Globe, Washington Shakespeare Theater, Yale Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, A.C.T. (San Francisco), Canada’s Stratford Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. New York: Second Stage, Primary Stages, Signature Theater, Playwright’s Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Public Theater/Central Park, Acting Company, The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm, Our Country’s Good (Tony nomination), Seascape (Tony nomination, Best Revival), Cymbeline, The Rivals, Measure for Measure (Lortell Award), Tiny Alice (Lortell Award). Opera: Met Opera, NYC Opera, Glimmerglass, Santa Fe, San Francisco, etc. Actor: Broadway, Off-Broadway, Guthrie, Old Globe, Stratford (Connecticut), etc. Film: Longtime Companion. TV: Great Performances (Emmy), Live From Lincoln Center. Teaching: Yale School of Drama (Beinecke Fellow), U. of Michigan, U. of Miami, Southern Methodist (Meadows Chair).
Paul Lazarus has directed over eighty plays and musicals (mostly new work) in such theaters as The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Rep, The Actors Studio, La MaMa ETC, Huntington Theater Company and The Goodspeed Opera House. He served as Artistic Director of the historic Pasadena Playhouse in California. Highlights include: receiving a Drama Desk nomination for the Off-Broadway musical Personals; the Lincoln Center Institute production of Antigone; serving as Associate Director for the celebrated concert version of Follies at Avery Fisher Hall and the world premieres of Camping with Henry and Tom, The 24th Day, Life Class, Epic Proportions and Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller. Since moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Lazarus has also been directing many prime time television series including “Samantha Who?,” “Ugly Betty,” the new “90210, ” “Friends,” “L.A. Law,” “Melrose Place” and “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
Rick Lombardo is a twenty year Member of SDC and is in his fourth season as Artistic Director at San Jose Repertory Theatre, where he most recently staged the world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Love in American Times. For the previous 13 years, he led New Repertory Theatre into becoming one of New England’s leading mid-size theaters. He was awarded the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence from the Boston Theatre Critics Association for his body of work there. At New Rep his award-winning productions included: The Clean House, Sweeney Todd, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ragtime, Waiting for Godot, The Weir. His world premiere of Bill W. and Dr. Bob enjoyed an extended run Off-Broadway at New World Stages. He was honored to serve for ten years as the President of NEAT, the Association of New England Area Theaters, as well as serving on the boards of both StageSource and ArtsBoston. A New York native, in his early career he directed at Musical Theater Works, the Ohio Theater, and the New Amsterdam Theatre Company at Town Hall, in addition to assisting on several Broadway productions.
Tom Moore’s Broadway credits include ‘night, Mother, (Pulitzer Prize and Tony nomination); the original Grease (8 years), Over Here (Tony nomination); Once in a Lifetime, Division Street, Moon Over Buffalo, Octette Bridge Club and Frankenstein. At the Mark Taper Forum/Ahmanson Theatre he directed The Royal Family, Division Street, A Month in the Country, Henceforward and A Flea in Her Ear. Credits at American Conservatory Theater include Three Sisters, Little Foxes and Hotel Paradiso. At Williamstown Theatre Festival he directed Hay Fever, Madwoman of Chaillot and Our Town. He has also worked at the Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Santa Fe Stages, Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage and American Repertory Theatre. His extensive television credits include “E.R.” (Emmy nomination), “L.A. Law” (Emmy nomination), “Mad About You” (Emmy nomination), “Huff,” “The Court,” “Cheers,” “Ally McBeal,” and “The Wonder Years” (Humanitas Prize) and the Disney musical Geppetto. He also directed the film of ‘night, Mother.
Amy Morton is a director, actor and member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. At Steppenwolf she has directed: Dublin Carol (also at Trinity Rep), The Pillowman, Love-Lies-Bleeding, The Dresser, Topdog/Underdog (also at the Alley Theatre in Houston), We All Went Down To Amsterdam, Glengarry Glen Ross (which toured to the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Toronto Theatre Festival), The Weir and Mizlansky/Zilinski. Other directing credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Alliance Theatre and Our Country’s Good at Remains Theatre. As an actor, she has most recently performed in August: Osage County on Broadway and in London.
Robert Moss ran the Edward Albee Playwrights Unit from l970 to 1971. Then from 1971 to 1981 he simultaneously founded and ran Playwrights Horizons, The Queens Theater in the Park, and helped develop Theater Row on West 42nd Street. In 1982, he became the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca and ran it until he took over Syracuse Stage from 1996 to 2008. He served on the board of OOBA (now ART/NY) for five years and during the same time period sat on the Equity Showcase Code Committee. He has been a Board Member of the SDC Foundation, TCG, the Drama League Directors Project, and a panelist for both the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His extensive directing contracts include LORT, SPT and University. His teaching credits include initiating the undergraduate directing program at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (affiliated with NYU) and The Lab Company at the Hangar. Prior to all this, he culminated an active stage manager career as PSM with the touring APA Repertory Company in residence for four years in L.A., Toronto, Ann Arbor, and at the Lyceum on Broadway.
Sharon Ott began her 25-year American theater career in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she worked with the experimental theater ensemble, Theatre X, and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, winning an Obie Award for production design for A Fierce Longing. She also directed the world premiere of Amlin Gray’s Obie Award-winning How I Got That Story for Milwaukee Rep. In 1984 she became Artistic Director of Berkeley Repertory Theater, and for the next 13 years built that company from a small regional theater to a major national institution. She later became the Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre where she oversaw the initiation and completion of a 15-million-dollar endowment fund. She has directed across the country at theaters including the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons and many others, as well as San Diego Opera, Opera Colorado and Seattle Opera. She is currently a Professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.
Lisa Peterson has done extensive work on new plays and classics in theaters across the country. In New York, her work has been seen at NYTW, Vineyard, Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC, Women’s Project, Ma-Yi Theater, Playwrights Horizons and the Young Playwrights Festival. Regionally, she has worked at Mark Taper Forum (where she was Resident Director for ten years), La Jolla Playhouse (where she was Associate Director for three years), Berkeley Rep, Intiman, California Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Theater, Guthrie, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dallas Theater Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage, McCarter, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, and Huntington Theatre. She has developed plays at New Dramatists, Playwrights’ Center, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and Sundance Theater Lab. Lisa is the recipient of an Obie Award, numerous Drama-Logue Awards, a Callaway nomination, a Drama Desk nomination, and an NEA/TCG grant. She is a graduate of Yale College and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Lonny Price most recently directed Patti LuPone in the Ravinia Festival production of Gypsy. Earlier this year he directed Audra McDonald in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and the premiere of Michael John LaChiusa’s Send(who are you? I love you) for the Houston Grand Opera. On Broadway he co-wrote, directed and appeared in A Class Act, which was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Musical. His other Broadway credits include Master Harold… and the Boys starring Danny Glover, the musical Urban Cowboy, and Sally Marr…and Her Escorts (co-written with Joan Rivers and Aaron Sanders.) Stage and television credits include Passion for Lincoln Center’s Songbook Series and PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center (Emmy award), and for PBS’s Great Performances, Sweeney Todd in Concert (Emmy Award) and Candide (Emmy nomination.) Off-Broadway shows include Visiting Mr. Green, Athol Fugard’s Valley Song, and Mary Pat Gleason’s one-woman play Stopping Traffic for the Vineyard Theatre. He has also directed the Encores! concerts of Pal Joey, Can-Can and last season’s Kismet.
John Rando is the ‘02 Tony and Outer Critic’s Circle Award-winning director of Urinetown, The Musical. Other Broadway credits include: The Wedding Singer, A Thousand Clowns, Dance of the Vampires, and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. With City Center Encores! he has directed several highly acclaimed productions: On The Town, Damn Yankees, Face The Music, Of Thee I Sing, Pajama Game, Do Re Mi, Strike Up The Band and upcoming Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. His 2009 production of The Toxic Avenger Musical garnered the Outer Critic’s Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. Off-Broadway credits include: Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Class Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Theaterworks USA, and The Acting Company among many others. He has worked extensively in the American regional theater including: American Conservatory Theater, Alley Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Old Globe Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Signature Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Company, Cleveland Playhouse, and Virginia Stage Company among many others. In 1992, he was a Drama League Directing Fellow. He has served on the advisory board of both the Drama League Director’s Project and The Acting Company. His professional accomplishments were recognized by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television with the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Susan H. Schulman’s Broadway credits include the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden as well as its highly-successful national tour (Drama Desk nomination), the revival of Sweeney Todd at the Circle in the Square (Tony Award nomination), the revival of The Sound of Music (Tony nomination Outstanding Revival) and Little Women, the musical and its recent national tour. For her direction of the highly-acclaimed Violet (The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical), Susan received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Director. She received an Obie Award for directing Sondheim and Furth’s musical Merrily We Roll Along at the York Theatre. Susan directed the national tour of Sunset Blvd, and has directed 6 productions for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada and three productions for City Center Encores including Boys from Syracuse. Susan is a graduate of the Yale Drama School, Hofstra University and New York’s famed High School of Performing Arts. She heads the Graduate Program in Directing at Penn State University.
Seret Scott has directed a dozen productions at the Old Globe Theatre as an Associate Artist . Off-Broadway she premiered Mujeres Y Hombres at New Victory Theatre, and directed Birdie Blue and Zooman and The Sign for Second Stage Theatre, Yohen for Pan Asian Rep. Regional credits: Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, South Coast Rep, Tribute Productions, Geva Theater, Studio Arena, ACT-SF, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Actor’s Theatre- Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare, George Street, McCarter (outreach), Crossroads, Alliance, Indiana Rep, Alley, Philadelphia Theatre Co, National Black Theatre, New Mexico Rep, among others. She directed workshops for Roundabout Theatre, Pacific Playwright’s, O’Neill Theatre Center, NY Stage and Film, Sundance, New Harmony and is a former Director in Residence at New Dramatists. Seret authored Second Line, produced by NJ’s Passage Theatre and DC’s Atlas Theatre and is a Drama Desk Award winning actress. Her directing nominations include Beverly Hills’ NAACP, Connecticut Critics Circle and Helen Hayes.
Bartlett Sher Lincoln Center Theater Resident Director: Blood and Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards/also directed current London and Australia productions), Awake and Sing! (Tony nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). New York: Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Horizons); Cymbeline (Callaway Award for best Director, first American Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company), Waste (Best Play Obie Award), Don Juan and Pericles (TFANA). Artistic Director of Seattle’s Initiman Theater (2000 – 2009), credits include plays by Chekov, Wilder, Shakespeare, Goldoni, Tony Kushner, Ibsen, as well as world premieres by Craig Lucas, and an adaptation of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich; formerly Resident Director of the Guthrie Theater where he directed the world premiere of Femi Osofisan’s Many Colours Make the Thunder King and Associate Director of Hartford Stage Company. Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le Conte Ory (Metropolitan Opera); Romeo et Juliette (Salzburg Festival and La Scala); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera and New York City Opera); Two Boys (ENO and Metropolitan Opera). Upcoming: a new production of the Odets classic “Golden Boy” for Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway.
Chay Yew’s directing credits include the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Huntington Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cornerstone Theater, East West Players, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Ma-Yi Theater Company, National Asian American Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Highways Performance Space, Walk & Squawk, Theatre Rhinoceros and Singapore Repertory Theatre. He has directed world premieres by Jose Rivera, Naomi Iizuka, Julia Cho, Robert O’Hara, David Adjmi and Jessica Goldberg, and plays by David Henry Hwang, Philip Kan Gotanda, Sunil Kuruvilla, Karen Hartman, Moises Kaufman, Thornton Wilder, Chekhov and Lorca. His opera credits include the world premieres of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar (co-production with Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Rob Zuidam’s Rage D’Amors (Tanglewood). A playwright and an alumnus of New Dramatists, he is also a recipient of the Obie and Drama-Logue Awards for Direction.