Amy Saltz (head of directing program) has directed
classic and contemporary plays throughout the United States and abroad.
New York City audiences have seen her work at Town Hall, the
Provincetown Playhouse, HB Playwrights Foundation, Playwrights
Horizons, Second Stage, Public Theater, and Theater for a New Audience,
among others. She has directed at most of the country's major regional
theaters, including the Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre,
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors' Theater of Louisville, Arena Stage,
Cincinnati Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Syracuse Stage, the
Asolo Theater, Florida Studio Theater, Ojai Playwrights' Conference,
and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference where she
served on the selection committee and directed new works by over 30
playwrights including Neal Bell, Lee Blessing, Cusi Cramm, Tom Doneghy,
Adam Rapp, John Henry Redwood, John Patrick Shanley, and August Wilson.
Ms. Saltz has been invited to direct in Russia, Croatia, and Lithuania.
She has served as theater panelist and/or evaluator for the National
Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, NEA/TCG's
Directing Fellows, TCG's Plays-in-Process, and the New York State
Council on the Arts. She and her productions have won the Joseph
Jefferson, Artisan, Handy, and "Time Off" awards and have been
nominated for the Helen Hayes and Grammy awards. She is listed in the
International Directors and Choreographers; member of the League of
Professional Theater Women; and member of advisory boards for 7 Devils'
Playwright's Conference and the American Theater Institute. Her
television credits include Another World and Search for Tomorrow. Her
teaching credits include Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School,
Columbia University, Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), and North Carolina
School of the Arts. She is a member of the Directors' Guild of America
and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Pamela Berlin (directing) includes to her New York theater credits Endpapers,
Steel Magnolias, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, Crossing Delancey,
The Cemetery Club, Joined at the Head, The Family of Mann, and The Red Address. She also directed Three in the Back, Two in the Head (MCC), Black Ink and Elm Circle (Playwrights Horizons), Snowing at Delphi, Club Soda, ´Til the Rapture Comes (WPA), Wallflowering, Play by Ear at
the HB Playwrights Foundation, and numerous one-acts at the Ensemble
Studio Theatre. Regionally, she has directed at the Seattle Repertory
Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Kennedy
Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Stage Company,
and Virginia Stage Company, to name a few. Her opera credits include Rigoletto, Lucia Di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Hansel and Gretel, Of Mice and Men, and Cold Sassy Tree. Ms. Berlin currently serves as president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
William Carden (directing) is the artistic director of the HB Playwrights Foundation and Theater. At HB he directed Mrs. Klein
by Nicholas Wright starring Uta Hagen. It went on to a commercial run
off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theater followed by a national tour.
He also directed Collected Stories by Donald Margulies with Uta
Hagen at HB which transferred to the Lucille Lortel for an extended
off-Broadway run subsequently playing at the Stratford Festival in
Canada and the Bronfman Center for the Arts in Montreal. He formed the
HB Playwrights Unit which produced their first short play festival The Motel Plays
in 1997. This production has become an annual event, with a new
location each year and publication of the plays by Smith and Kraus. At
HB he has directed numerous productions including War in Paramus by Barbara Dana, New World Rhapsody by Adam Kraar, Burnt Piano by Justin Fleming, Voir Dire by Joe Sutton, Mall America by Peter Sagal, The Wax
by Kathleen Tolan, and the 25th anniversary production of Miguel
Piñero's Short Eyes. In November of 1999, he directed the all-star
reading of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
with Uta Hagen, Jonathan Pryce, Mia Farrow, and Matthew Broderick at
the Majestic Theater on Broadway and the following spring at the
Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. The next season he directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Stratford Festival in Canada. Off-Broadway, he directed James Ryan's The Young Girl and the Monsoon
at Playwrights Horizons. As an actor he has played leading roles
off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club, Circle Repertory Theater,
WPA, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Phoenix Theater, as well as at
numerous regional theaters. On Broadway, he created the title role in
the original, award-winning production of Short Eyes. He has been seen in a variety of television shows, the most recent being Law and Order.
