Directors Call Sheet
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Welcome to THE CALL SHEET, The Drama League’s monthly menu of the work being created around the globe by alumni of The Directors Project. We hope you’ll enjoy seeing and supporting this work.
And for Drama League Alumni: we want to fill everyone in on all the exciting things you’re working on! Please take a moment to fill out THIS SURVEY, so we can highlight your creative endeavors.
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FAYETTEVILLE, AK
- Damon Kiely – Director, In the Grove of Forgetting, TheatreSquared, April 16 – May 2, 2025
COSTA MESA, CA
- Zi Alikhan – Director, You Are Cordially Invited To The End Of The World, South Coast Repertory, April 5 – May 4, 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA
- Irvin Mason, Jr. – Associate Director, Two Trains Running (directed by Lili-Anne Brown), The Acting Company National Tour, January 19 – May 3, 2025
SAN DIEGO, CA
- Rachel Gita Karp – Director, How to Put on a Sock, WOW Festival at La Jolla Playhouse, April 2025
ATLANTA, GA
- Shelley Butler – Director, The Reservoir, Alliance Theatre, March 29 – May 4, 2025
BOSTON, MA
- David Mendizábal – Director, Don’t Eat the Mangos, The Huntington Theatre, March 26 – April 27, 2025
- Ilana Ransom Toeplitz – Director, Head Over Heels, Emerson Stage, April 17-19, 2025
ST. LOUIS, MO
- Larissa Lury – Director, Meet Me at Dawn, Upstream Theater, April 11 – 27, 2025
NEW YORK CITY
- Danny Sharron – Director, Hold Me in the Water, Playwrights Horizons, April 10 – May 4, 2025
- Jonathan Silverstein – Director, All the World’s A Stage, Keen Company, March 25 — May 10, 2025
- Whitney White – Writer & Performer, Macbeth In Stride (Assistant Director Rosalind Bevan), Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 15-27, 2025
GREENVILLE, SC
- West Hyler – Director, Listen, South Carolina Children’s Theatre, April 4 – 13, 2025
LUBBOCK, TX
- Jesse Jou – Director, The Nerve of Minerva, Texas Tech, April 2025
WASHINGTON, DC
- Michael John Garcés – Director, Fake It Until You Make It, Arena Stage, April 3 – May 4, 2025
TORONTO, CANADA
- Annie Tippe – Director, Life After, Mirvish Theatre, April 16 – May 4, 2025
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FAYETTEVILLE, AK
- Kendra Ware – Director, Play on Jodi! (Staged Reading) TheatreSquared, May 20 – 25, 2025
BERKELEY, CA
- Knud Adams – Director, The Aves, Berkeley Rep, May 2 – June 8, 2025
COSTA MESA, CA
- Gaye Taylor Upchurch – Director, The Staircase, South Coast Repertory, April 27 – May 18, 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA
- Shelley Butler – Director, The Reservoir, Geffen Playhouse, April 16-May 18, 2025
SAN DIEGO, CA
- Zi Alikhan – Director, House of India, The Old Globe, May 10-June 1, 2025
BOSTON, MA
- Ilana Ransom Toeplitz – Director, Little Shop of Horrors, Greater Boston Stage Company, June 6 – 29, 2025
NEW YORK, NY
- Jaki Bradley – Director, All Nighter, MCC, February 25 – May 18, 2025
CINCINNATI, OH
- Joanie Schultz – Director, Birthday Candles, Cincinnati Playhouse, April 19 – May 18, 2025
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT
- Sarah Elizabeth Wansley – Director, The Vermont Farm Project: A Farm to Stage Musical, Northern Stage, May 7 – 25, 2025
On The Lookout...
ALABAMA
- MONTGOMERY, AL
- Ryan Dobrin – Co-Director, We Shall Someday, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, March 18 – June 22, 2025
- MONTGOMERY, AL
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
- PALO ALTO, CA
- SAN DIEGO, CA
- Delicia Turner Sonnenberg – Director, Deceived, The Old Globe, August 9 – August 31, 2025
- Annie Tippe – Director, Huzzah!, The Old Globe, September 13 – October 19, 2025
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- Diane Paulus – Director, The Monkey King, San Francisco Opera, November 14 – 30, 2025
ILLINOIS
- CHICAGO, IL
- Andrew Coopman – Director & Playwright, TAROT, Strawdog Theater, Fall 2025
- CHICAGO, IL
MASSACHUSETTS
- WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
- Dustin Wills – Director, Camino Real, Williamstown Theatre Festival, July 17 – August 3, 2025
- WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
NEW YORK
- COOPERSTOWN, NY
- Louisa Proske – Director, Tosca, Glimmerglass Festival, July 11 – August 16, 2025
- GARRISON, NY
- Raz Golden – Director, Julius Caesar, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, September 15 – October 10, 2025
- Davis McCallum – Director, Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, June 8 – August 3, 2025
- GLENS FALLS, NY
- Lisa Rothe – Director, Village of Vale, Adirondack Theatre Festival, June 27-29, 2025
- NEW YORK CITY
- Britt Berke – Director, Charlotte’s Web Touring Remount, TheaterWorksUSA
- Andrew Coopman – Director & Choreographer, Alan Turing & The Queen of the Night, Player’s Theater, August 2025
- Jillian Carucci – Director, Rosie Revere, Engineer and Friends Touring Remount, TheaterWorksUSA
- Rebecca Martinez – Director, Much Ado About Nothing, Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, Summer 2025
- Emma Rosa Went – Director, Initiative, The Public, Fall 2025
- SYRACUSE, NY
- Joanna McKeon – Director, The National Pastime, Syracuse Stage, June 11 – 29, 2025
OREGON
- ASHLAND, OR
- Desdemona Chiang – Director, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, March 8 – October 25, 2025
SOUTH CAROLINA
- GREENVILLE, SC
- Matthew Earnest – Director & Adapter, An Enemy of the People, The Warehouse Theatre, May 30 – June 15, 2025
- West Hyler – Director, Merlin Returns, South Carolina New Play Festival, August 7 – 11, 2025
- GREENVILLE, SC
WASHINGTON
- LANGLEY, WA
- Emily Lyon – Director, Anima (Her Soul), Island Shakespeare Festival, July – September 2025
- LANGLEY, WA
WASHINGTON, DC
- Christopher Ashley – Director, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Signature Theatre, June 3 – July 13, 2025
BULGARIA
- SOFIA
- West Hyler – Director, Untitled New Musical, National Palace of Culture, November 2025; Director, Avenue Q, Opened in 2017 at Sofia Puppet Theater; Director, Shrek, Opened in 2019 at National Opera and Ballet; Director, Spongebob Squarepants the Musical, Opened in 2022 at Sofia Puppet Theater; Director, Book of Dreams, Opened in 2022 at National Palace of Culture; Director, The Sound of Music, Opened in Jan 2024 at National Opera and Ballet
- SOFIA
FRANCE
- PARIS
- Dana Harrel – Director, Disney’s Music Festival, Disney Land Paris
- PARIS
Alumni on Broadway/Off Broadway National Tour
- Rachel Chavkin – Director, Hadestown, Walter Kerr Theatre and National Tour
- Michael Mayer – Director, Funny Girl on National Tour; Director, A Beautiful Noise on National Tour; Director, Little Shop of Horrors, Westside Theater
- John Rando – Director, Back to the Future: The Musical on National Tour
- Danya Taymor – Director, John Proctor Is The Villain, Booth Theatre, Now Open; Director, The Outsiders, Jacobs Theatre
- Alex Timbers – Director, Just In Time, Circle In The Square, Now Open; Moulin Rouge!, Al Hirschfeld Theatre; Beetlejuice and Moulin Rouge! on national and international tours
- Whitney White – Director, The Last Five Years, Hudson Theatre, Now Open
- Associate, Assistant, Resident, and Tour Directors
- Ryan Dobrin – Associate Director, The Last Five Years, Hudson Theatre, March 18 – June 22, 2025
- Raz Golden – Resident Director, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Now Open
- Devin Haqq – Assistant Director, PIRATES!, Roundabout, April 4 – June 22, 2025
- Taylor Haven Holt – Associate Director, & Juliet, Stephen Sondheim Theatre, open run
- Johanna McKeon – Associate Director, Funny Girl on National Tour
- Keenan Tyler Oliphant – Associate Director, Hadestown, open run
- Austin Regan – Tour Director, A Beautiful Noise on National Tour; Associate Director, Little Shop of Horrors, Westside Theater
- Ashley Brooke Monroe – Tour Director, Life of Pi on National Tour
- Samantha Saltzman – Associate Director, Moulin Rouge! on Broadway and National Tour
- Danny Sharron – US Associate Director, Cabaret, The Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre; Director/Restager, Dear Evan Hansen on National Tour
Drama League Alumni You Can Watch on Screen
- Desdemona Chiang – Director, Fire Country, CBS/Paramount+; Director, Made in the USA, LA Shorts International Film Festival and Holly Shorts Film Festival
- Heath Cullens – Director, Mythic Quest, Apple TV+; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX/Hulu
- RJ Cutler – Director, Martha, Netflix; Producer/Director, Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul, Netflix; Murf The Surf, MGM+; Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, Apple TV+; Belushi, Paramount+
- Doron Drew Feldman – Director, #TextMeWhenYouGetHome, Amazon
- Reena Dutt – Director, Comfort Food, Currently in development with the American Film Institute DWW+ Cohort; Director & Producer, Too Many Bodies, Youtube
- Ash Marinaccio – Director & Cinematography, Taiwan in the Big Apple, Taiwan Public Broadcasting Company
- Michael Mayer – Director, Single All The Way, Netflix
- Tony Phelan – Producer/Director, Fire Country, CBS/Paramount+ (2024 Fellowship Recipients Morgan Claire Green, Lauren Keating, Jess McLeod, and Danny Sharron, will be shadow directing on the coming season); Director, A Small Light, Disney+
- Shakina – Director, Quantum Leap, NBC/Peacock
- Michelle Tattenbaum – Director, Idea, Short Film streaming on YouTube
- Alex Timbers – Director, John Mulaney: Baby J, Netflix