Oskar Eustis

Oskar Eustis (born 31 Jul 1958) is the artistic director at the Public Theater and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country.

Career

From 1981 through 1986 he was resident director and dramaturg at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, and Artistic Director until 1989, when he moved to the L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum as Associate Artistic Director until 1994. Mr. Eustis then served as Artistic Director at Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island for eleven years. In 2005 he took the helm at New York's Public Theater.

He was a professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. He also served on the faculty of The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. He received an honorary doctorate from Brown in 2001 and currently serves as Professor of Dramatic Writing and Arts and Public Policy at New York University.

Eustis describes his role at the Public as both producer and dramaturge. In a conversation with set designer David Korins for BOMB Magazine, Eustis said, “The producer gives me the power; the dramaturgy gives me the brains.”^[1]

Achievements

Throughout his career, Mr. Eustis has been dedicated to the development of new plays as both a director and a producer. Two plays that he helped develop, Angels in America by Tony Kushner and The Kentucky Cycle, won Pulitzer Prizes. At The Public he directed the New York premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise. At Trinity Rep, he directed the world premiere of Anthony Clarvoe's Ambition Facing West; the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); Homebody/Kabul (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); the world premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise; Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director); Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika; as well as world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado. He commissioned Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum.

Personal

His real first name is Paul, but Eustis adopted the name "Oskar" in part because of his affinity for German cultural and political history^{[citation needed]}, especially the theories of Karl Marx and the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.

References

1. ^ "David Korins and Oskar Eustis". BOMB Magazine. Jan 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2011.

1. NY Mag
2. NY Times
3. Village Voice
4. American Theatre Wing

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