​DUSTIN WILLS is an NYC-based theatre and opera director originally from Texas. Recent projects include Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Top Ten Theatrical Productions 2017 - New York Magazine) by Phillip Howze at the Bushwick Starr, Masculinty Max by MJ Kaufman at The Public Theatre, Will Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing with New Neighborhood, a Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency for AWFUL EVENT! - a new musical with Kate Tarker and Dan Schlosberg, and ongoing work on a musical adaptation of Federico García Lorca's surrealist play Once Five Years Pass. Recent opera works include Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Yale Opera and Cavalli's L'Egisto with the Yale Baroque Opera. Dustin has directed and developed new work with The Foundry Theatre (O,Earth - Time Out NY 5 Stars, Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play 2016), New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and PAGE 73 (Orange Julius), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Realm, Berkeley Rep, Echo Theatre (Blueberry Toast - Best Director 2016, LA Stage Raw Awards), Yale Rep, Berkshire Theatre Group, Paper Chairs, and Salvage Vanguard Theatre; created large-scale community puppet projects with Creative Action; and devised new work for The English Theatre of Rome and Teatro L'Arciliuto in Rome, Italy. He is a two-time recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre, a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow, former artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican.
​MFA: Yale School of Drama. 

Upcoming: 
Plano ​by Will Arbery - Paper Chairs - Austin, Texas, September 2019
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo - Atlantic Acting School - NYC - November 2019
Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov, adapted by Keith Reddin - Juilliard Drama - NYC - February 2020
Unannounced play - Soho Rep, NYC - March 2020
A Boy's Company Presents: Tell Me If I'm Hurting You by Jeremy O. Harris, Playwrights Horizons - NYC -May 2020

Ongoing:
AWFUL EVENT! original musical with Kate Tarker and Daniel Schlosberg

RECENT UPDATES

MAY 2019
Working on Stravinsky's соловей with Yale Opera
DECEMBER 2017
Frontìeres sans Frontíeres named a TOP TEN BEST THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS OF 2017 pick by New York Magazine
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MAY 27, 2017
​Just finished working on HERE WE ARE HERE with Jiehae Park at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Here are some photos from it:

MAY 21, 2017 
It was great to find out I won the Best Director award from the Stage Raw Theatre Awards in Los Angeles for my work on Mary Laws' Blueberry Toast. The show also won for Best Actress and Best Ensemble! Full list of winners HERE

MAY 10, 2017
​Just got some pictures back from the double bill of operas I worked on with Yale School of Music. William Walton's The Bear and Milhaud's Le Pauvre Matelot.