The Board of Directors
A Bi-monthly interview series with the world’s leading theatre directors, exploring how they navigate their artistry both inside and outside the rehearsal room, creating an international platform for dialogue on directing practice, leadership, and the evolving role of the director in contemporary theatre, expanding access to professional knowledge-sharing, and fostering community among emerging and established directors worldwide.
Episodes
22 episodes
The Board of Directors International Monthly Meet-Up Reminder
We invite you to this month’s International Directors’ Meet-Up, our monthly gathering of directors and theatre makers from around the world.It’s a space to share experiences, trade advice, and find support in what can often be a...
BoD Episode 18: Bill Rauch
Bill Rauch is the inaugural artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts Center. His work as a theater director has been seen nationwide, from low-income community centers to Broadway, including the Tony Award-winning production of Robert ...
BoD Episode 17: Chong Tze Chien
Tze Chien is a core member of The Finger Players and an award-winning playwright and director. He is the recipient of the Singapore Dramatist Award and multiple The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards, with his play Oiwa: The Ghost of...
The Board of Directors International Monthly Meet-Up Reminder
We invite you to this month’s International Directors’ Meet-Up, our monthly gathering of directors and theatre makers from around the world.It’s a space to share experiences, trade advice, and find support in what can often be a...
BoD Episode 16: Anne Hamburger
Anne Hamburger is the Founding Artistic Director of En Garde Arts, which she established in 1986. Widely credited with pioneering the site-specific theatre movement in the United States, Hamburger has spent four decades redefining how and where...
BoD Episode 15: Bryan Doerries
Bryan Doerries is a writer, director, and translator who currently serves as Artistic Director of Theater of War Productions, a company that presents charged performances of seminal texts, led by acclaimed actors, for audiences with something a...
The Board of Directors International Monthly Meet-Up Reminder
We invite you to this month’s International Directors’ Meet-Up, our monthly gathering of directors and theatre makers from around the world.It’s a space to share experiences, trade advice, and find support in what can often be a...
BoD Episode 14: Mikhael Tara Garver
Mikhael Tara Garver is a pioneering force in immersive storytelling and fandom-driven experience design, shaping how audiences gather, participate, and imagine together at the intersection of live experience, technology, and culture. For over t...
BoD Episode 13: Matt Torney
Matt Torney is an Irish-born theatre director and the Artistic Director of Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, where he leads one of the Southeast’s most respected regional theatre companies, Theatrical Outfit. Originally from Belfast, ...
BoD Episode 12: Adriana Baer
Adriana Baer has been an arts professional for over 20 years. She has held leadership roles at Profile Theatre (Executive Artistic Director) and Cutting Ball Theater (Associate Artistic Director), and has worked with companies including Oregon ...
BoD Episode 11: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Lizards Lying in the Sun/Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol is a collective of artists. They work in theater, create books, radio programs, videos, and educational projects.Since 2003, they have been developing projects to connect work and li...
BoD Episode 10: Brian Kulick
Brian Kulick is a director, writer, producer, educator, and current Chair of the Graduate Theatre Program at Columbia University. He has been the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company, where he directed Galileo with F. Murray Abra...
BoD Episode 9: Kareem Fahmy
Kareem Fahmy has directed and developed plays at theatres including MCC, The Atlantic, The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, The Civilians, Writers Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, The Magic, Conte...
BoD Episode 8: Alvin Tan
Alvin Tan is the founder and artistic director of The Necessary Stage, one of Singapore’s most respected theatre companies, and the co–artistic director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. A central figure in the evolution of devising i...
BoD Episode 7: Suman Mukhopadhyay
Suman Mukhopadhyay’s films deal with the socio-political realities and engage in a critical assessment of the contemporary. His explorations into the subaltern lives and histories have lent a distinction to his filmmaking and theatre pro...
BoD Episode 6: Pirronne Yousefzadeh
Pirronne Yousefzadeh (She/Her/Hers) directs theatre that speaks to the moment and uplifts Global Majority communities with buoyancy, joy, and theatrical magic. She is a director, writer, and educator, serving as Associate Artistic Direct...
BoD Episode 5: Acadia Barrengos
Acadia Barrengos (she/her) is a New York-based director whose work excavates lost histories and engages audiences viscerally. In addition to NYC, she has worked in Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and New Jers...
BoD Episode 4: Joe Deer
Joe Deer is the award-winning director and choreographer of over 200 productions - from Off-Broadway to London, regional to summer stock, international, and university stages. His projects vary from new works in Matera, Italy, to operas,...
BoD Episode 3: Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo (they/them) is a queer immigrant from Singapore, an artistic leader, theatre maker, and educator whose work bridges the intersections of the artistic, the civic, and the contemplative. As a director, deviser, and dramaturg, T...
BoD Episode 2: Shaun Patrick Tubbs
In this episode, director and actor Shaun Patrick Tubbs joins us to talk about his journey through the worlds of theatre, opera, and new play development. This path has taken him from Wright State to Juilliard, from Miami to New York, fr...
