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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, and a new musical with Kate Tarker and Dan Schlosberg called AWFUL EVENT!, and ongoing work on a musical adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 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, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Page 73, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Rep, Echo Theatre, 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 (click on title to link to page): L'Egisto by Francesco Cavalli, Yale Baroque Opera, New Haven, CT: April, 2018 Andrea Lloyd Webber with Jeanna Phillips and Ian Axeness at Ars Nova, May 22 at 7pm Awful Event! with Kate Tarker and Daniel Schlosberg, Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency, Princess Grace Foundation, May 24th at 3pm & May 25th at 1pm Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery, White Heron Theatre, Nantucket, August 2018 |
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DECEMBER 2017
Frontìeres sans Frontíeres named a TOP TEN BEST THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS OF 2017 pick by New York Magazine
Frontìeres sans Frontíeres named a TOP TEN BEST THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS OF 2017 pick by New York Magazine
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:
Just finished working on HERE WE ARE HERE with Jiehae Park at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Here are some photos from it:
