 Marc Masteron (Co-Creator and Director, Wild Blessings - a Celebration of Wendell Berry) is currently in his eighth season as Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is an award-winning director specializing in new work and innovative productions of the classics that include The Tempest, The Unseen, Mary's Wedding, Natural Selection, The Crucible, The Shaker Chair, After Ashley, Betrayal, As You Like It, Tallgrass Gothic, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Second Death of Priscilla, Limonade Tous les Jours, Wonderful World and Macbeth. As a producer, he has brought new artists to Louisville audiences, including playwrights August Wilson, Craig Wright, Theresa Rebeck and dozens of Humana Festival playwrights. With more than 100 professional productions as a director to his credit, other favorites include The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam (2000), Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher (American Theatre Critics citation 1999) and Gross Indecency: Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman (1999). He led the creation of Actors Theatre's first Education Department and numerous community outreach efforts. Mr. Masterson earned his M.F.A. from University of Pittsburgh and a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. He subsequently taught at both universities. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of Theatre Communications Group and served as Producing Director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh for 20 years. He was founder and chairman of Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance as well as a board member for Leadership Pittsburgh. He is currently a board member of the Theatre Communications Group and has served as a panel member for Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and other national foundations. Mr. Masterson won the Man of the Year Vectors Award in 1998 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Pittsburgh New Works Festival. |
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 Neil Pepe made his acclaimed Broadway debut this season with the hit revival of David Mamets Speed-The-Plow, and staged David Pittus world premiere comedy Whats That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, which transferred Off-Broadway following an extended engagement at Atlantic Stage 2. Whats That Smell was work-shopped at Perry-Mansfield last summer.
Neil most recently staged the world premiere of Ethan Coens Offices at the Atlantic Mainstage. Neil has been the Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company in New York City since 1992. There he directed Ethan Coens Almost an Evening; Jez Butterworths Parlour Song; David Mamets American Buffalo starring William H. Macy (also Donmar Warehouse, London); Harold Pinters The Room and Celebration; David Mamets Romance (also Mark Taper Forum, L.A.); Milos by John Guare; Tom Donaghys The Beginning of AugustSea of Tranquility; Jez Butterworths Mojo and The Night Heron; Joe Penhalls Blue/Orange; Wolf Lullaby by Hilary Bell; Clean by Edwin Sanchez; and Shaker Heights by Quincy Long. Other credits include the world premiere of David Mamets Keep Your Pantheon as well as The Duck Variations (Center Theatre Group), Further Than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris (Manhattan Theatre Club), Eric Bogosians Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Jessica Goldbergs Refuge (Playwrights Horizons). (also South Coast Rep.); Howard Korders
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 Kent Thompson was named Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company in 2005. Since joining the Theatre Company, he has been instrumental in reestablishing Denver as a leader in new play development through his annual Colorado New Play Summit; establishing the Women's Voices Fund, an endowment to foster the work of women playwrights at The Denver Center; overseeing a new strategic plan for The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and directing productions of Dusty and the Big Bad World, Noises Off, Plainsong, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Amadeus, King Lear, A Flea in Her Ear and Measure for Measure among others.
Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 years. While there, he directed the world premieres of Disguises, Iago, Aaronville Dawning, A Lesson Before Dying, Lizard and productions of Macbeth, Sheppey, Noises Off, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, A Man for All Seasons, Richard II, The Circle, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, Oliver!, Othello, The Tempest, Hamlet, On the Verge, The Cherry Orchard, An Ideal Husband, Peter Pan, Twelfth Night, Seasons Greetings and Big River among others. His production of Macbeth was selected by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), to tour to 13 military bases throughout the United States in the fall of 2004.
In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers Project (SWP), a program designed to commission and develop new plays that has presented 16 world premieres since its inception, including Craig Warner, James McLure, Kia Corthron, Romulus Linney, Keith Glover, Carlyle Brown, Barbara Lebow, Doris Baizley and Regina Taylor.
He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit professional theatres, also serving as its president for three years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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 Although a native of Montreal, Canada, Mr. Villeneuve was raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He is an alumnus of The Alvin Ailey School and The Juilliard in New York City and has worked with Hans van Manen of Nederlands dans Theatre. Mr. Villeneuve has also performed works by modern master choreographers such as Agnes de Mille, José Limon and Talley Beatty among many others. His concert credits include Cortez and Company Contemporary Ballet under the direction of Hernando Cortez, (formerly of The Paul Taylor Company) and The Company Dance Theatre-Kingston, Jamaica. Mr. Villeneuve has been featured on Broadway in the AIDS benefit, A Few Good Men Dancin' as well as the Toronto production of The Lion King, where he held the title of Dance Captain/ Swing for four years. Mr. Villeneuve has performed with Patti Labelle, Pamela Anderson and Antonio Banderas and has been featured on CBS and PBS. Mr. Villeneuve has been a faculty member at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado for six years as the Assistant to the Artistic Director where he teaches Repertory, Contemporary Partnering and Modern Jazz. In 2004 Mr. Villeneuve was added to the guest faculty of Cawthra Park Secondary School in Toronto, Canada and is now proud to be in his sixth season with Ballet Hispanico of New York. He also guest teaches and choreographs for The Juilliard School. |
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New Works Festival 
Andrew Leynse (Artistic Director, New Works Festival) is currently the Artistic Director of Primary Stages Company, an Off-Broadway Theater Company in New York City. He has produced, managed, and directed in the New York Theater community for over eighteen years. He began his career at Primary Stages after graduating from Carnegie Mellon's Directing Program. At Castle Hill Productions, he produced over twenty plays including Fortune's Fool, Madame Melville, and The Unexpected Man. Upon returning to Primary Stages as Artistic Director, he oversaw the move to their new home at 59E59 Theaters, and produced over 20 productions including the premieres of The Stendhal Syndrome and Dedication or The Stuff Of Dreams by Terrence McNally, In The Continuum by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, The Day Emily Married by Horton Foote, and Indian Blood and The Fourth Wall by A.R. Gurney. The critically acclaimed Dividing The Estate by Horton Foote received its Off-Broadway premiere last fall at Primary Stages and will move to Broadway presented by Lincoln Center Theater later this year. Last year at Perry-Mansfield he directed The Cherry Sisters by Dan O'Brien. Primary Stages is pleased to be participating with Perry-Mansfield on their ongoing collaboration to develop today's best new plays.
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