Director, The Three Musketeers
At OSF: The Comedy of Errors. Kent Gash is the Artistic Director of The Acting Company, which returned to National Touring in 2022 with a World Premiere adaptation of The Three Musketeers by Kirsten Childs, conceived and directed by Mr. Gash, centering Alexandre Dumas and the Black imagination responsible for the classic swashbuckler, in rep with Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Gash directed the World Premiere of Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue at the Public Theatre and is co-author and director of Langston in Harlem, (2010 Audelco Awards Best Musical.) New York productions include Cori Thomas’ Lockdown for the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the virtual co-production with WP Theater, Broke-ology at the Juilliard School, the Off-Broadway premiere of Miss Evers’ Boys for Melting Pot Theatre Co., the York Theatre presentation of Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday and the Off-Broadway revival of Samm-Art William’s HOME. Future projects include Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live For, about the life of jazz icon Billy Strayhorn, at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Fall 2023. Among nearly one hundred regional productions are Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue for City Theatre, “Master Harold”… and the Boys at Arizona Theatre Co., Guys and Dolls at the Guthrie, The Wiz at Ford’s Theatre (Washington Post Ten Best, Broadway World Best Musical Award, Three Helen Hayes Awards) and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at South Coast Rep (LA Times Ten Best), The Mountaintop, Topdog/Underdog (Elliot Norton Award-Best Director), Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Trinity Rep, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Wig Out for Studio Theatre, DC., Choir Boy at the Studio Theatre in DC, Marin Theatre Co. (Bay Area Critics Award for Best Production) and the Jeff Award–winning production at Steppenwolf. Mr. Gash is the former Associate Artistic Director of the Tony Award–winning Alliance Theatre (2001-2009) and The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (1999–2001), and is an Arts Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where he is Founding Director of the New Studio on Broadway. Mr. Gash is a graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama (BFA in Acting) and UCLA (MFA in Directing for Theatre and Television).