Ed Sylvanus Iskandar

Ed Sylvanus Iskandar

Director, Head Over Heels

In two seasons at OSF: Resident Assistant Director on Hamlet, She Loves Me, Don Quixote, Henry VIII.

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: Conceiver-director, The Mysteries, collaborating with 50 American playwrights; Amy Freed’s Restoration Comedy; Sean Graney’s These Seven Sicknesses (The Flea); Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon (The Play Company). International: Memphis (Japan); Venus in Fur (Singapore). Other: As Founding Artistic Director of Exit, Pursued by a Bear, he has served 12,000 free home-cooked meals over the course of staging 8 Labs and 40 Salons. Also a Director and Officiant of weddings and ceremonies. 

Awards and Affiliations: 2014 Drama Desk Special Award for “visionary directorial excellence [and] bold and strikingly original imagination” (The Mysteries, The Golden Dragon); 2013 National Theatre Conference Emerging Professional Award, honored by Bill Rauch; 2011 & 2012 Drama Desk Nominee as Outstanding Director (These Seven Sicknesses & Restoration Comedy); New York Times Critics’ Pick (These Seven Sicknesses); TONY Critics’ Pick (The Golden Dragon). New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect; Artist-in-Residence at Singapore Repertory Theatre; Drama League Directing Fellow.

Education: MFA, Carnegie Mellon; BA, Stanford.