DAVID ESBJORNSON was the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company (NYC) from 1992-97 as well as Seattle Repertory Theatre 2005-8, producing and directing eleven seasons of new plays, classics and special events. In the last decade, David was Chair of the Rutgers MGSA Conservatory where he created the 3.5 conservatory program. Directing premieres include: Manifest Destiny’s Child Dennis Trainor, (Edinburgh Festival), The Glass Menagerie (Shanghai, China) Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry, (Broadway, London and Australia) Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Broadway) and The Play About the Baby (Century, NYC), Arthur Miller’s The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Broadway) and Resurrection Blues (Guthrie), the world premiere of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and the first staged presentation of Perestroika (Eureka) and Homebody/Kabul (London). The Great Gatsby (the new Guthrie Inaugural Production) and Christopher Hampton’s Appomattox, The Confederacy of Dunces, (Huntington) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? by Todd Kriedler (Arena Stage DC, Huntington, Boston) The Outsider by Paul Slade Smith, (Paper Mill Playhouse), In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (Public), Neil Simon’s Rose and Walsh (Geffen), Therese Raquin by Neal Bell (CSC), Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher (Minetta Lane), My Old Lady by Israel Horovitz (Promenade), Ariel Dorfman’s Purgatorio (SRT), Moira Buffini’s Gabriel and Peter Parnell’s Trumpery (Atlantic), Molly Ivins Red Hot Patriot (Arena Stage, The Geffen, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep), Erma Bombeck: At Witt’s End, by Alison and Maragaret Engel (Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse), Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber (Long Wharf). Major revivals include: Lady From Dubuque (NY Signature Inaugural Production), Death of a Salesman (The Gate, Dublin), Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF in Central Park), A Few Good Men (London West End), The Normal Heart (Public), All My Sons (Huntington), Hamlet (Theatre For A New Audience), Our Town (George Street), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Summer and Smoke (Guthrie), Twelfth Night, Mud and Drowning (Signature), Endgame, The Maids, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Entertainer (Classic Stage Company) and Farmyard (NY Theatre Workshop.).