CHRISTOPHER BAYES (Director) returns to Court Theatre where he directed Scapin. He began his theatre career with Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer, designer and artistic associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of The Guthrie Theater under the artistic leadership of Garland Wright, where he appeared in more than 20 productions including Caliban in The Tempest, Edgar in King Lear,The Herald in Marat/Sade and Harlequin in The Triumph of Love. In 1993, commissioned by The Guthrie, he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming, based on Heinrich Boll’s novel The Clown. In New York he has directed plays by Feydeau, Molière, Goldoni, Gozzi and others at such institutions as Juilliard Drama School, New York University, P.S.122, Dixon Place and HERE. Regionally, he has directed Scapin at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Len Jenkin’s adaptation of The Birds at Yale Repertory Theatre, and The Moliere Impromptu at Trinity Repertory Company. Mr. Bayes has also created and directed several original works including Zibaldoné, a commedia dell’arte. He has received numerous awards and grants and was a 1999/2000 Fox Fellow. He has taught for Cirque du Soleil, the PUBLIC Theatre’s Shakespeare Lab, and the Big Apple Circus. He was most recently on the faculty of the Juilliard Drama School, the Actor’s Center, Yale School of Drama, the Academy of Classical Acting at Washington D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, and New York University’s Graduate Acting Program. Currently, he is director of movement and Physical Theater at the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Theater Consortium. He would like to dedicate his work on this production to the memory of his grandmother, Mary Andress.