Dustin wills 🎈 DIRECTOR
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Representation

Ross Weiner (Ross.Weiner@caa.com) & Sam Barickman (Sam.Barickman@caa.com) — Creative Artists Agency

New York Theatre Directing

​A Boy's Company Presents: Tell Me If I'm Hurting You
​Wet Brain
Romeo and Juliet
Wolf Play (remount)
**
​Montag
​Wolf Play

Cymbeline
​Black Snow
​Accidental Death of an Anarchist
​AWFUL EVENT!           

Masculinity Max       
Frontieres Sans Frontieres*            

Orange Julius           
O, Earth^     
​Once Five Years Pass
   (Opera-theatre adaptation)      
Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Fatal Eggs            

Ivanov                                                
​Jeremy O Harris

​John J. Caswell Jr.
Hansol Jung
Hansol Jung
Kate Tarker
​Hansol Jung
William Shakespeare

​Mikhail Bulgakov, adapted by Keith Reddin
Dario Fo
Kate Tarker, composer Dan Schlosberg
​
MJ Kaufman
​Phillip Howze

Basil Kriemendahl
Casey Llewellyn
​​Federico Garcia Lorca, trans. by Dustin Wills,
   music by Daniel Schlosberg
Adapted by Dustin Wills and Ilya Khodosh         
​Anton Chekhov        
Postponed
​
​Playwrights Horizons
​Nat'l Asian American Theatre Co MCC Theatre
​Soho Rep
​Soho Rep
Juilliard Drama

Juilliard Drama
Atlantic Theatre Program
​Baryshnikov Arts Center
The Public Theatre
Bushwick Starr

Rattlestick Playwrights, Page 73
The Foundry Theatre
​Williamstown Theatre Festival

   Boris Sagal Fellowship
​The Araca Group
Stella Adler Studio
Postponed​

​2023
2023
2023
​2022
2022
2021
​2020
​2018
2018
2017
2017
2016
2015
​2015
2015
​2014
​2014
​**2023 Lucille Lortel Award Winner: Outstanding Direction of a Play, Outstanding Production of a Play
* New York Magazine: Top 10 Theatrical Productions of 2017
^ Off-Broadway Alliance Nomination: Best Production 2016

Opera Directing

Eugene Onegin
​Alcina
​Die Zauberflöte, with maestro Timothy Long
​Le Rossignol
The Old Maid and the Thief
Dido and Aeneas
L'Enfent et les Sortileges
Magic Flute, with maestro Israel Gursky
L’Egisto
The Bear

La Pauvre Matelot
Xerse
​Once Five Years Pass

   (Opera-theatre adaptation)
La Traviata
Frau Trude
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
George Frideric Handel
​Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
​Igor Stravinsky
Gian Carlo Menotti
Henry Purcell
​Maurice Ravel
​Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Francesco Cavalli
William Walton
Darius Milhaud
Francesco Cavalli
​Federico Garcia Lorca, trans. by Dustin Wills,
   music by Daniel Schlosberg
Giuseppe Verdi
Dan Schlosberg
HeartbeartOpera NYC
​Yale Opera
​The Foundry Arts
​Yale Opera
​Yale Opera
​UMASS Amherst
​UMASS Amherst
The Shubert Theatre

Yale Baroque Opera
Yale Opera
Yale Opera
Yale Baroque Opera
Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA
   Boris Sagal Fellowship
Berkshire Theatre Group
​New Haven, New Music Festival
2024
​2022
​2020
​2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2018
2017
2017
2016
2015

2015
​2014

NYC & National Residencies

The Almonds (Director)
Live From Elm Court (Director)
​
AWFUL EVENT! (Co-creator, Director)
Here We Are Here (Director)
Laura and the Sea (Director)
AWFUL EVENT! (Co-creator, Director)
CREAM! (Director)
Everything You Want to Be (Director)
Wolf Play (Director)
The Pack
​Daniel Schlosberg
​Jiehae Park
Kate Tarker
​Kate Tarker, Dan Schlosberg
John Caswell Jr.
Kate Attwell
​Hansol Jung
Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre 
Frederick R Koch Arts Foundation, Elm Court
​Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency
​
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Princess Grace Award
Vineyard Theatre, Paula Vogel Playwright
New York Theatre Workshop Residency
Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship
Bushwick Starr Reading Series
Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2023
​2020
​2018
​2017
2017
2016
2016
2015
​2015

Regional Theatre Directing

Plano
​Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

Catalina
Blueberry Toast+
Heddatron             

Baal             
Machinal 
In This House, Everything Is You
Murder Ballad Murder Mystery
Black Snow*  
Ophelia
Cinque
Cymbeline*
Will Arbery
​Will Arbery           
Elizabeth Doss
Mary Laws        
​Elizabeth Meriwether
Bertolt Brecht           
Sophie Treadwell    
Daniel Alexander Jones, Sharon Bridgforth
Elizabeth Doss, Mark Stewart
Mikhail Bulgakov   
Dustin Wills
Devised
William Shakespeare
Paper Chairs, Austin, TX
New Neighborhood, Nantucket, MA
Paper Chairs, Austin, TX
Echo Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX
Paper Chairs, Austin, TX
Paper Chairs, Austin, TX
Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX
Vortex Repertory Theatre, Austin, TX
Tutto Theatre Company, Austin, TX  ​
Teatro L’Arciliuto – Rome, Italy
Teatro L’Arciliuto – Rome, Italy         
Goldberg Courtyard, Austin, TX
2019
​2018
2017
2016
​2011
2010
2010
2010
2009
2008
2008
2007
​2006
+ Ovation Recommended & Winner Best Director Los Angeles Stage Raw Awards 2017
* Best Direction Award, Austin Critics Table 2007 & 2009

Yale School of Drama Directing

ReWilding            
THUNDERBODIES
The Maids
Peter Pan
King Richard II
Tartuffe
Drunk Enough to Say I Love You
The Shoemaker’s Produgious Wife
Martyna Majok
Kate Tarker
Jean Genet
J.M. Barrie, adapted by Dustin Wills
William Shakespeare
Jean Baptiste Moliere
Caryl Churchill
Federico Garcia Lorca
Yale Cabaret
Carlotta Festival of New Plays
Yale Cabaret
University Theatre, Thesis Production
Shakespeare Repertory Project
Yale Summer Cabaret
Yale Summer Cabaret
​Yale Summer Cabaret

Grants and Fellowship Awards

​Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency, 2018
Drama League Director’s Commission, The Drama League, 2015
Boris Sagal Fellowship, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2015
Julian Milton Kaufman Prize in Directing, Yale School of Drama, 2014
Pierre-André Salim Prize, Yale School of Drama, 2014
Princess Grace Foundation, Lynn Wyatt Theatre Award, 2013 & Special Project Grant, 2014

Education

​Yale School of Drama, Master of Fine Arts, Directing, 2014
University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude), Theatre & Dance and English, 2006
Roma Centro Studi Americano, Rome, Italy, 2005
Oxford University, Brasenose College, Oxford, UK, 2003