Guest Directors and Designers

(Representative List)

Paul Barnes, Director Othello, Tartuffe
Founding/Producing Director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota. Regional credits include Alley Theater, Pioneer Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Clarence Brown Theatre, and the Alabama, California, Idaho, Utah, and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals.

DREW BARR, Director The Taming of the Shrew
Director for Portland Stage Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and University of Washington’s School of Drama.

PETER BENNETT, Director A Doll’s House, The Learned Ladies
Director for Long Wharf Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theatre, George Street Playhouse, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Theatre by the Sea, Playmakers Repertory Company, New Globe Theatre, Carolina Theatre Company, New Jersey Theatre Forum, Barter Theatre, Riverside Theatre, American Stage Festival, Pope Theatre Company, Two River Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Northern Stage Company, Florida Repertory Company, and Unicorn Theatre. New York City: the original production of Passion of Dracula, which ran for two years, earned a Drama Desk nomination for "Outstanding Direction," and won the Soho News Annual Arts Award for "Best Direction". He also staged the national tour of that play and the television production, which won the Ace Award for "Best Dramatic Production."

WILLIAM BROWN, Director The Beaux Strategem
Director for American Players' Theatre, Writer's Theatre Chicago, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.

ELIZABETH COVEY, Costume Designer Cyrano De Bergerac,
A Flea in Her Ear
Costume Designer for A.C.T. in San Francisco, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena, Hartford Stage Company, McCarter Theatre, Denver Center Theater Company, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Folger Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pearl Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Olney Theatre Center, and the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

CHARLES CONWELL Fight Choreographer Peter Pan, Cyrano De Bergerac
Member of the Society of American Fight Directors and a Professor of Theater at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Directed fights for the Metropolitan Opera, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Delaware, the Walnut Street Theater, the Philadelphia Company, Hartford Stage, the McCarter Theater and the Pennsylvania Ballet.

WALTER DALLAS Director, TopDog/Underdog
Producing Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s New Freedom Theatre. Director for Yale Repertory, McCarter, Long Wharf, Westport Country Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Center Stage, Goodman Theatre (world premiere of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, named one of the Top Ten Best Theatre Events of the year by Time Magazine.)

NICK EMBREE, Scenic Designer Flea in Her Ear, Mary Stuart
Head of the Design and Technology BFA Program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Designed for Lantern Theater, Freedom Theatre, Interact Theatre, and the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

REBECCA G. FREDERICK, Lighting Designer A Streetcar Named Desire, The Taming of the Shre, Savages, Christians and Other Homo Sapiens
Lighting Designer for Delaware Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse, Interact Theatre Company, and Brandywine Baroque.

BARRY G. FUNDERBURG, Sound Designer
Sound Designer/Composer for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Kansas City Rep: Arizona Theatre Company, City Theatre Company (Pittsburgh), Center Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, L.A. Theatre Works, and Indiana Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre, Next Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, and Lookingglass. Received three Chicago Equity Jefferson Award nominations and the 1996 Jefferson Award for Sound Design.

JOHN GOING, Director Translations, A Flea in Her Ear
Director for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Indiana Repertory, Hartford Stage, Pioneer Theater Company, Asolo Theatre, Barter Theatre, Alley Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Cleveland Playhouse, Wilma Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Olney Theatre Center. During the inaugural season of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, he served as assistant to the late Sir Tyrone Guthrie. Currently, he is the Associate Artistic Director of Maryland’s Olney Theatre Center.

JOSEPH HANREDDY, Director Mary Stuart
Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Previously held similar positions at the Madison Repertory Theater and the Ensemble Theater Project in Santa Barbara, California.

HELEN Q. HUANG, Costume Designer Mary Stuart
Costume Designer for theatres including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Disney Creative Entertainment, Arizona Theatre Company, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and Boston Lyric Opera, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Theatre of First Amendment. Ms. Huang won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design and the 2005 Ivey Award. Huang’s designs have also awarded with inclusion in the United States National Exhibit to the Prague Quadrennial 2007. Ms. Huang is a professor at the Department of Theatre, University of Maryland at College Park

MARK LAMOS, Director Peter Pan
Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatres including Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, Primary Stages, Public Theater, Former Artistic Director of Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Canada's Stratford Festival, Moscow's Pushkin Theater, McCarter, Old Globe, The Shakespeare Theater, California Shakespearean Festival, San Francisco's A.C.T, Metropolitan Opera, NYC Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Gothenburg, Sweden's Stora Teatern, Munich's Biennale, and Toronto's Canadian Opera.

TED LEFEVRE, Scenic Designer Tartuffe
Designer and Associate/Assistant Designer for Broadway (Grease, Coram Boy, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray tour, Lincoln Center Theatre’s The Invention of Love, Aida, Wedding Singer, All Shook Up, Wicked, Beauty and the Beast), Surflight Theatre, Williamstown, the Santa Fe and Glimmerglass Operas.

ETHAN MCSWEENY, Director Misalliance
Director for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Alley, Berkeley Rep, the Folger, the George Street Playhouse, the Guthrie, Old Globe, the Pittsburgh Public, Primary Stages, the Prince, the Shakespeare Theater, South Coast Rep, Westport Playhouse, and the Wilma Theatre.

CHARLES MOREY, Director Count of Monte Cristo
Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company since 1984. Directed for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Meadow Brook Theatre, the American Stage Festival, PCPA Theatrefest and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. His adaptations and original plays have gone on from their PTC premieres to successful productions at professional theatres across the country including the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Asolo Theatre Company, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Meadow Brook Theatre, the PCPA Theaterfest, the Peterborough Players, the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, the Elm Shakespeare Company as well as numerous amateur and university productions.

FITZ PATTON, Composer/Sound Designer A Streetcar Named Desire, The Taming of the Shrew
Composer/Sound Designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional theaters including Second Stage, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, ACT (San Francisco), Dallas Theater Center; The Acting Company, American Players Theater, and Philadelphia Theater Company.

CLAUDE PURDY, Director The Plays the Thing
Extensively staged the works of August Wilson. Director for ACT in San Francisco, the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Alley Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Intiman Theater, Mark Taper Forum, San Jose Repertory Theater, GeVa Theatre, Arizona Repertory, Guthrie Theatre, and Penumbra Theatre.

C. DAVID RUSSELL, Scenic and Costume Designer Ah Wilderness, Travesties, Tartuffe
Design work includes costumes for Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Enchantment Theatre Company, Theater Works, Barrington Stage Company, and Williamstown Theater Festival. Mr. Russell is a Props Craftsperson at The Santa Fe Opera, where he has been a staff member since 1992. He has also worked as a craftsperson for Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey and Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Head of the Costume Crafts Technology Program and an instructor of costume design at Ohio University.

LEE SAVAGE, Scenic Designer Peter Pan, Cyrano De Bergerac
Scenic Designer for Yale Repertory Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theater of Washington, D.C., Dallas Theater Center), Philadelphia Theater Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Linhart Theater, Theater 5, HERE, Urban Stages, New York International Fringe Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival,

ED STERN, Director A Streetcar Named Desire
Producing Artistic director for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Director for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Cleveland Play House, Missouri Repertory Theatre and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Co-founded the Indiana Repertory Theatre and served there as Artistic Director for eight years. Mr. Stern was on the directing faculty at Rutgers University, as well as the acting faculty for the William Esper Acting Studio in New York.

J.R. SULLIVAN, Director Arms and the Man
Director for Off-Broadway and regional theaters including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Pearl Theatre Company, American Players Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre.

TADASHI SUZUKI, Director Oedipus
Creator of the Suzuki Method of Acting. Chairman of the Japan Performing Arts Center, which sanctions the Toga International Arts Festival, and the Toga Actor’s Training Program. Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed SPAC (Shizuoka Performing Arts Company). Director for Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

FONTAINE SYER, Director The Millionairess
Former Artistic director, Delaware Theatre Company. Director for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alliance Theatre, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Meadowbrook Theatre in Michigan, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Co-founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Project Company in St. Louis , MO from 1975-1989.