I make smart, thoughtful, entertaining, socially aware theatre. I am dramaturgically prepared; my tablework is thorough; my productions are powerful. My particular strength is in directing language-driven plays, from the Elizabethan to the contemporary.
In rehearsal / in production
In late July / August 2011, I directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the 2011-2012 Almost Blasphemy tour at the American Shakespeare Center. It was a pure joy to do so. The production will tour the southeastern United States through the end of March, then play on the mainstage at ASC from April til June 2012.
In January 2012, I am team-teaching an Intro to Acting workshop at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. You can read about it here.
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In June 2011, I directed Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car, featuring the lovely Sandy Duncan, at Theatre Aspen in Colorado. You can read the advance articles on BroadwayWorld and the Denver Post.

With Sandy Duncan, Jeffrey Correia, Autum Hurlbert, Heather Lee & David Ledingham on opening night at Theatre Aspen
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Since mid-2009, I have worked as a facilitator, teacher and director with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison north of New York City. In addition to collaborating with Jeff Glaser on his production of Starting Over in spring 2010, I have team-taught two directing workshops at the prison. This spring, I have directed Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts at Sing Sing; we performed the play for the population and for an invited civilian audience May 11,12 and 13, 2011.
I invited actor Michael McKean, who created the role of Arthur at Steppenwolf and then on Broadway, to come speak to the men at Sing Sing. You can read the article about his late April visit here and see additional photos of his visit here. You can read the post I wrote for 2am theatre here.
Director's Notebook
- Humanity 101
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Law & Order: Denmark
- Nay, answer me
- Putting it together
- And I have found Midsummer, like a jewel …
- Gimme five
- Behind the scenes, behind bars
- … like you were walking onto a yacht …
- Friday night fights
- Listen to a silenced voice
- Maximum security casting
- Headshots: brilliant image or fuzzy concept?
- The strip of (textual) terror
- Theatre behind the walls
- Like an old tale still
- Talking amiss of her: speech, silence and shrewishness in The Taming of the Shrew
- Open stage to empty space: the Granville-Barker inheritance











