Amy Saltz (head of directing) 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, 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, Seattle Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Syracuse Stage, 7 Devils Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference, where she served on the selection committee and directed new work 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 of the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Drama League's Director Fellowships, National Endowment of the Arts/Theatre Communication Group's Directing Fellows, Theater Communication Group's Plays in Process, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She and her productions have won the Drama Desk, Joseph Jefferson, Artisan, Handy, and Time Off awards and have been nominated for the Obie, Helen Hayes, and Grammy awards. She is listed in the Who's Who of American Women, the Madison Who's Who, and the Manchester Who's Who. She is a member of the League of Professional Theater Women and the advisory board for 7 Devils Playwrights Conference, and she has served for many years on the executive board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and on the advisory board of 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 at New York University, 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). New York directing credits include Endpapers at the Variety Arts Theatre, Steel Magnolias, which ran for three years off Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square downtown), The Cemetery Club (Broadway), Crossing Delancey (Jewish Reperatory Theatre), Joined at the Head (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Family of Mann and The Red Address (Second Stage), Three in the Back, Two in the Head (MCC Theatre), Black Ink and Elm Circle (Playwrights Horizons), Snowing at Delphi, Club Soda, (WPA), The Giver (Theatreworks USA), and numerous one-acts at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regionally, she has directed A Streetcar Named Desire, Copenhagen, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Plough and the Stars, True West, On the Verge, Translations, Tea and Joe Egg among others at such theaters as the Kennedy Center, Seattle Reperatory Theatre, Long Wharf, Huntington Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, and Portland Stage. Opera credits include La Traviata, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Lucia DiLammermoor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cold Sassy Tree, and Of Mice and Men. Ms. Berlin served as president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
William Carden (director) is artistic director of the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City where he most recently directed Lucy by Damien Atkins. Prior to that he was artistic director of the HB Playwrights Foundation for eleven years where he directed Mrs. Klein and Collected Stories starring Uta Hagen, Horton Foote's The Habitation of Dragons, Another Vermeer by Bruce Robinson, Justin Fleming's Burnt Piano, Joe Sutton's Voir Dire, and New World Rhapsody by Adam Kraar. He directed The Dew Point by Neena Beber for the Summer Play Festival, James Ryan's The Young Girl and the Moonsoon at Playwrights Horizons, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Stratford Festival in Canada. He teaches in the M.F.A. degree acting and M.F.A. degree directing programs at Rutgers University.
Israel Hicks (director/chairman) also teaches in the directing program.
