Dustin Wills

Dustin Wills directs theatre and opera. Upcoming: Kate Tarker’s MONTAG (Soho Rep.), Jeremy O. Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You, Handel’s Alcina (Yale Opera). Recent: Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (Soho Rep.), Keith Reddin’s Black Snow (Juilliard), Phillip Howze’s Frontières Sans Frontières (Bushwick Starr—named a Top Ten Theatrical Production of 2017 by New York Magazine), Will Arbery’s Plano (Paper Chairs, Austin TX), Casey Llewellyn’s O, Earth (Foundry Theatre — Off-Broadway Alliance Best Play 2016), and a 2018 Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency. Wills has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, created large-scale puppetry pageants with Creative Action, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a Princess Grace Award recipient, as well as a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

• “John J. Caswell, Jr.'s writing is an act of resistance to the constraints of theatrical convention.”

  — The New York Times