Director
ROBERT WOODRUFF (Director) has been the Artistic Director of American Repertory Theatre in Boston since 2002. A.R.T.: directed Sound of a Voice, Highway Ulysses (2003 Elliot Norton Award for Best Production), Richard II, Full Circle (2000 Elliot Norton Award for Best Director) and In the Jungle of Cities (1998 Elliot Norton Award for Best Director). A.R.T. Institute: directed Charles L. Mee’s Trojan Women A Love Story. His credits include the premieres of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child (Pulitzer Prize), and True West at the New York Shakespeare Festival; In the Belly of the Beast, A Lie of the Mind, and Philip Glass’s A Madrigal Opera at the Mark Taper Forum; The Comedy of Errors (with the Flying Karamazov Brothers) at Lincoln Center; David Mamet’s adaptation of Red River at The Goodman Theatre; The Tempest, A Man’s a Man, and Happy Day (among others) at La Jolla Playhouse; Julius Caesar at Alliance Theatre; The Duchess of Malfi and Nothing Sacred at the American Conservatory Theatre; The Skin of Our Teeth at The Guthrie Theater, and Baal at Trinity Repertory Company. His work has been seen at most major U.S. Arts Festivals and abroad. Recent work includes Medea at the National Theatre of Israel and Saved at Theatre for a New Audience. Mr. Woodruff co-founded The Eureka Theatre, San Francisco, and created The Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

ALAN JOHNSON (Music Director/Conductor) began his association with Philip Glass in 1988, as vocal coach/pianist for The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, at Houston Grand Opera. In addition to music direction for the 2003 premiere of The Sound of a Voice and Hotel of Dreams at American Repertory Theater, Alan has led the premiere of Glass scores for In the Penal Colony (Court Theatre), The Mysteries and What’s So Funny? (David Gordon Pick-Up Company), Cymbeline, Henry IV Parts I and II (New York Shakespeare Festival), and Provenence Unknown by dancer/choreographer Molissa Fenley. Alan has conducted opera and music theater premieres by composers Edward Barnes, Tina Davidson, John Duffy, Jonathan Dove, Leroy Jenkins, Michael John LaChiusa, John Moran, Dan Moses Schreier, and Michael Torke at venues throughout the US, including Lincoln Center, Opera Delaware, ACT - Seattle, and the Spoleto Festival. He has performed solo and joint recitals at the Walker Arts Center, Diverseworks, Dia Center for the Arts, and Alice Tully Hall. Alan was awarded a 1998 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Music Direction, and holds degrees in music from the University of Illinois and University of Miami, FL, studying with John Wustman and Ivan Davis.
HANSOL YOON (Assistant Director) is in the M.F.A. directing program at Columbia University where his directing work includes Witkiewicz's The Mad Man and the Nun, Strindberg's After the Fire, Heiner Müller's Medea Materal and a workshopped production of Bathsheba Doran's Fifteen Minutes, which he later directed at The Cherry Lane Alternative and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Directing credits in his native Korea include Heiner Müller's The Task, Albee's The Zoo Story, and a number of new Korean plays. He was the assistant director for ACOM, and worked with them assistant directing The Last Empress which toured to the State Theatre at Lincoln Center, The Shubert Theatre and Kodak Theatre in LA and Apollo Hammersmith in London. He has directed pieces at the HERE Arts center in New York, and most recently, he assisted Robert Woodruff on the premiere of David Henry Hwang and Philip Glass’s collaboration on Sound of a Voice at the American Repertory Theatre.
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