Oskar Eustis
Artistic Director, The Public Theater
Oskar Eustis is the artistic director of The Public Theater, since 2005, and a professor of dramatic writing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He previously was the artistic director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. Dedicated throughout his career to the development of new work that speaks to the great issues of our time, Eustis has worked with Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, David Henry Hwang, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Richard Nelson, Rinne Groff, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Lisa Kron, among others. His artistic direction experience also includes LA’s Mark Taper Forum, Eureka Theatre Company, the laboratory theater of Schauspielhaus Zurich in Switzerland, and the Redwing Theater Company in New York. Eustis has also held professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College, and Brown University.
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