Adapter and Director, The Odyssey

In two seasons at OSF: Director, Guys and Dolls; director and adapter, The White Snake. 

Other theatres: Broadway: Director and adapter, Metamorphoses. Regional: The White Snake (Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe Theatre, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China); The Odyssey, Treasure Island, The Secret in the Wings, Arabian Nights, Metamorphoses, Argonautika (Lookingglass Theatre Company and others); Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass/About Face collaboration); Candide, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Silk, Journey to the West, Mirror of the Invisible World, The Odyssey (Goodman Theatre and others); Disney’s The Jungle Book (Goodman Theatre/Huntington Theatre Company). Director, Pericles (Shakespeare Theatre Company/Goodman Theatre); Measure for Measure, Henry VIII (The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival). 

Opera: Directed and wrote the libretto for Galileo Galilei, by Philip Glass (Goodman Theatre; Barbican Theatre, London); La Sonnambula, Rossini’s Armida, Rusalka (Metropolitan Opera); Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera and La Scala, Milan). 

Teaching: Professor of performance studies, Northwestern University. 

Awards: 1998 MacArthur Fellowship; 2002 Tony Award (Metamorphoses); other awards in Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Berkeley, New York. 

Education: BS, MA, PhD, Northwestern University.