Israel Hicks (chair, directing, and acting) has, for the past 18 seasons, been an associate artist of the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC). Some of his DCTC directing credits include the world premiers of A Selfish Sacrifice, Pork Pie: A Mythic Jazz Fable, Waiting to Be Invited, Kingdom, Coming of the Hurricane, and Evil Little Thoughts, as well as Gem of the Ocean, A Streetcar Named Desire, King Hedley II, Jitney, Madwoman, Dream on Monkey Mountain, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Romeo and Juliet, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Home. In addition, he has directed at regional theaters throughout the country including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, American Conservatory Theater in San Franciso, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Hicks is currently the artistic director and chair of the theater arts program at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts. In 2007, Hicks became founding artistic director of Ebony Repertory Theatre.
