Justin Emeka is the Resident Director for the Pittsburgh Public Theater where he has directed productions  Two Trains Running, Sweat, American Son and a virtual production of Romeo n Juliet.  He has worked at many theaters around the country including:  Yale Rep, Old Globe, Karamu House, Seattle Rep, Syracuse Stage, Langston Hughes Performance Center in Seattle, Philadelphia Theater Company, Seattle Theater Group and Classical Theater of Harlem. Some of his favorite directing projects include:   Detroit ’67, Sunset Baby, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wedding Band, The Bluest Eye, Death of a Salesman, Paradise Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Macbeth.   He specializes in culturally reimagining classic plays and has authored the chapter “Seeing Shakespeare through Brown Eyes” in the best-selling Black Acting Methods.  He also a tenured professor of Theater and Africana Studies at Oberlin College.