Kent Gash

(DIRECTOR, he/him) directed the acclaimed World Premiere of Robert O’Hara’s BARBECUE at the Public Theatre and is the co-author and director of LANGSTON IN HARLEM (2010 Audelco Award-BEST MUSICAL.).  New York: New York premiere of MISS EVER’S BOYS and the revival of HOME both for Melting Pot Theatre Co., and Duke Ellington’s BEGGARS HOLIDAY: York.  Recent regional: Public Works WINTERS TALE: Dallas Theatre Center, THE WIZ at Ford’s Theatre (10 Best of 2018- Washington Post,13 Helen Hayes nominations), August Wilson’s THE GEM OF THE OCEAN: South Coast Rep, (LA TIMES TEN BEST OF 2017).  GOODNIGHT TYLER: Alliance, THE MOUNTAINTOP: Trinity Rep, WIG OUT and CHOIR BOY for Studio Theatre, DC.  Classical productions include: TROILIUS and CRESSIDA and TWELFTH NIGHT at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, CORIOLANUS and PRIVATE LIVES at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  Future productions 2019:  GUYS AND DOLLS at the Guthrie.  Mr. Gash is the former Associate Artistic Director of both Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alliance Theatre; former Artist in Residence Studio Theatre DC and is Founding Director of The New Studio on Broadway at Tisch, NYU.  BFA: CMU, MFA: UCLA.  For Darius Smith.