Oskar Eustis

Oskar Eustis (born July 31, 1958) is the Artistic Director at The Public Theater at Astor Place and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country.[1]

Career

Oskar Eustis has served as the Artistic Director of The Public Theater since 2005. He came to The Public from Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI where he served as Artistic Director from 1994 to 2005. Eustis served as Associate Artistic Director at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum from 1989 to 1994, and prior to that he was with the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, serving as Resident Director and Dramaturg from 1981 to 1986 and Artistic Director from 1986 to 1989. He started the Red Wing Company when he was sixteen with Stephan Muller. [2]

At The Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff’s Compulsion and The Ruby Sunrise, as well as Larry Wright’s The Human Scale, and the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet. At Trinity Rep, he directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home and Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul, both recipients of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production. While at the Eureka Theatre, he commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum.

He was a professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. He also served on the faculty of The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Eustis is currently a Professor of Dramatic Writing and Arts and Public Policy at New York University, and has held professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College, and Brown University.[3]

Filmography

Year Title Medium Role Notes
2007 Working in the Theatre TV series Himself Episode 29.6
2010 Made Here TV series documentary Himself
2011 Stage Left: A Story of Theatre in San Francisco Documentary Himself
2011-2012 Charlie Rose TV series Himself 2 episodes
2012 Gossip Girl TV series Himself Episode 6.2
2013 Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus Documentary Himself

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.publictheater.org
  2. ↑ Bogart, Anne. Conversations with Anne: Twenty-four Interviews. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2012. Print.
  3. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/22/100322fa_fact_mead
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1539000/

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