DUSTIN WILLS is a theatre and opera director based in New York City. Upcoming productions include Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (Heartbeat Opera), Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Anthony Roth Costanzo (Little Island NYC), Jeremy O Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You, and some unannounced secret stuff (!!) Recent theatre: Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Production), John J. Caswell Jr.’s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC), Kate Tarker’s Montag (Soho Rep), and Awful Event! (Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency). Recent opera: Handel’s Alcina, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Stravinsky’s соловей. Dustin 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 2023 Obie Award winner, SDCF Callaway Award finalist, Princess Grace Award recipient, a Drama League alum, and Boris Sagal directing fellow. He teaches in the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale with a focus on new play development and directing for opera.
Upcoming: —A Boy's Company Presents: Tell Me If I'm Hurting You by Jeremy O. Harris —Norman Festival of New Plays, Juilliard Drama - January 2024 —Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Heartbeat Opera - March 2024 —Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Little Island - Summer 2024 |