SDC’s Executive Board consists of 34 directors and choreographers working across the country. Twenty-nine Board Members serve at-large and five Board Members serve as Regional Representatives, charged with serving the interests of their region as part of their Executive Board service. Regional Reps are voted on by the entire Membership. SDC’s regions include Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Central.

Katie Spelman

Katie Spelman (she/her) is a choreographer and director, who will be making her Broadway choreography debut this season with The Notebook. Recent credits include Cabaret (Barrington Stage Company); the world premiere of ...

Shelley Butler

Shelley Butler has over forty Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional credits to date and has worked extensively with writers on new plays and musicals. She has directed and developed work across the ...

Annie-B Parson

Annie-B Parson is a choreographer and the artistic director of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning Big Dance Theater, and with her company has created over 20 large-scale works for BAM, The ...

Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer has worked in a broad spectrum of media from theatre and opera to television and film. His Broadway credits include the Broadway revival of Funny Girl starring Lea ...

Annie Yee

Annie Yee is a Los Angeles based and award-winning choreographer. Most recently Annie choreographed An Octoroon at the Fountain Theatre directed by Judith Moreland. Other choreography includes M. Butterfly at ...

Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd is Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater and a Tony-nominated (The Color Purple) and Bessie Award-winning (The Minstrel Show) choreographer. He has worked with the SDC Diversity Task ...

Tamilla Woodard

Tamilla Woodard is the co-Artistic Director of Working Theater, former BOLD Associate Artistic Director at WP Theater, and the co-founder of PopUP Theatrics. She also served as the associate director …

Maria Torres

Maria Torres is a world-renowned director-choreographer with an extensive career that transcends theatrical and commercial industries. Torres’ Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban heritage inspires her artistry and led to the cultivation …

Susan Stroman

A five-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer most known for Crazy For You, Contact, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Producers. Her work has been honored with Olivier, Drama Desk, ...

Seema Sueko

Seema Sueko is a freelance director and the 2022 recipient of the TCG Alan Schneider Director Award. She has directed across the U.S. on stages, outdoors, in generative non-traditional spaces, …

Leah C. Gardiner

Leah C. Gardiner is an Obie Award-winning director known for the “incisive clarity” (The New York Times) of her work with physicality and text. She has directed in the U.S. and internationally, including …

Saheem Ali

Saheem Ali is a New York-based theater director focused on new work. Recent credits include Dangerous House (Williamstown Theater Festival), Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC), Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep), Where Storms …

Lisa Portes

Lisa Portes is a director, educator, and leader dedicated to expanding the circle of people reflected in 21st century American theatre. She is a co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) and serves ...

Desdemona Chiang

Desdemona Chiang is a director and writer based in Seattle, WA and Ashland, OR. She directs in a variety of genres, including new plays, Shakespeare, and musicals. She is known ...

Lonny Price

Lonny Price directed Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard on Broadway and at the English National Opera, Sweeney Todd starring Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel at the ENO and Lincoln Center, …

Jo Bonney

Jo Bonney has directed the premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Hilary Bettis, Eric Bogosian, Eleanor Burgess, Hammaad Chaudry, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Isaac Gomez, Danny Hoch, Ariel ...

Rachel Chavkin

Rachel Chavkin is a director, sometime writer (and sometimes funny) artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective, the TEAM (www.theteamplays.org) whose work has been seen all over New York, the U.S., …

Kathleen Marshall

Kathleen Marshall is an award-winning theatre, film and television director and choreographer.  A nine-time Tony Award nominee, she has won the award three times for Best Choreography for the Broadway ...

Robert O’Hara

Robert O’Hara has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies, and the Herb Alpert Award. Broadway: Slave Play …

Bartlett Sher

The New York Times has praised Bartlett Sher as “one of the most original and exciting directors, not only in the American theater but also in the international world of ...

Christopher Gattelli

Broadway credits include: Newsies (2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards), The Cher Show (Outer Critics nom), My Fair Lady (Tony nomination, Outer Critics nom), SpongeBob Squarepants (Tony ...

Christopher Ashley

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.

Liz Diamond

Julie Arenal choreographed the original production of Hair on Broadway, which she later restaged in Europe, as well as Indians and Boccaccio.