In 18 seasons at OSF: Artistic director, 1995-2007. Director: 27 productions including Paradise Lost; A View from the Bridge; The Cherry Orchard (also adapted); The Tempest; The Winter's Tale (2006, 1990); Bus Stop; Richard III;Richard II; Macbeth; Saturday, Sunday, Monday; The Trip to Bountiful; Three Sisters; Henry V; Hamlet; Measure for Measure; Uncle Vanya; King Lear; The Magic Fire (also at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts); The Merchant of Venice;Enrico IV (The Emperor); The Seagull (Portland).
Other theatres: Intiman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New Mexico Repertory, The Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and the Alabama, Colorado and Kern Shakespeare Festivals.
Other credits: artistic director, Indiana Repertory Theatre 1992-1996; dean and artistic director, School of Theatre at the California Institute of the Arts; head of the acting program at California State University, Long Beach; wrote Mask Characterization: An Acting Process; created and produced Inter/Face: The Actor and The Mask (video); co-author with Michael Flachman of two plays, Shakespeare's Women and Shakespeare's Lovers; OSF-commissioned new adaptations (from literal translations from Russian to English by Alison Horsley)of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters.
Education: honorary doctorates from Southern Oregon University, University of Portland and Willamette University; M.A., Northwestern University; B.A., University of Michigan.
Awards: Kennedy Center 2010 Stephen and Christine Schwartzman Legacy Award for Excellence in the Theater.
Website: www.chekhovplays.com