Donald Byrd

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., and internationally (including festivals across Europe, Australia and …

Desdemona Chiang

Sheldon Epps

Sheldon Epps has been Artistic Director of the renowned Pasadena Playhouse since 1997.  Before beginning his tenure at the Playhouse he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre for four years.  He was also a co-founder of …

Valerie Curtis-Newton

Northwest Regional Rep

Liz Diamond

Liz Diamond is a Resident Director at Yale Rep and Chair of Directing at Yale School of Drama. Productions at Yale Rep include Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Lucinda Coxon’s Happy Now? (also at Primary …

Justin Emeka

Central Regional Rep

Lydia Fort

Southeast Regional Rep

Lydia Fort is a director and educator whose credits include Nina Simone: Four Women (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Jump (Actors Express), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Theater Emory), The Mountaintop (Perseverance Theatre), Bright Half Life (Diversionary Theatre ), RIP.TIED

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 the premieres of two Pulitzer Prize finalists, …

Christopher Gattelli

Jon Lawrence Rivera

Katie Spelman