John Langs

JOHN LANGS has directed productions at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago), Circle X Theatre Co. (Los Angeles) Ensemble Studio Theatre (NY), Delaware R.E.P. Co., American Players Theatre (WI) and The Seattle Shakespeare Company, where he is an Associate Artist. Some favorite productions include King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet (Seattle Footlight Award, Best Production of the Year), The Brothers Karamazov (LADCC Award, Best Direction) and The Adding Machine, for which he received the first ever Gregory Falls Award for direction. John is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. John’s most recent co-production with his wife, Klea Scott, is their son, Captain, who was born in January 2010. (As of May 2011)

• “FOUR STARS – CRITICS’ PICK! A captivating and bravely weird new musical that elicits sweet harmonies from the world’s worst rock band. There are deep, disturbing joys to be had in this oddball-underdog odyssey. "The Shaggs" deserves a serious listen.”

  — David Cote, Time Out New York

• “Remarkably – insistently – memorable. Peter Friedman is astonishing. ”

  — Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg News

• “Sweetly Shaggs-adelic and genuinely heartbreaking. ”

  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post