CASEY CHILDS

(Founder and Executive Producer, Primary Stages) founded Primary Stages in 1984 and has directed many productions for the company including works by Jack Heifner, Bob Kingdom, Bill Leavengood, Lee MacDougall, Keith Reddin, and Edwin Sanchez. He served as the Artistic Program Director for the New Dramatists from 1981 until 1985 and has directed other new plays Off-Broadway including Lanie Robertson’s Woman Before the Glass with Mercedes Ruehl at the Promenade Theatre (OBIE Awards for Performance and Design). Casey is the recipient of the Carnegie-Mellon Commitment to New Playwrights Award, as well as two Emmy Awards and many nominations for his extensive work in television. He is a past Vice President of the Directors Guild of America and a past trustee of The National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. He has taught at many universities including Columbia’s School of Film, New York University and Duke. He is currently an associate fellow at Calhoun College at Yale University. Casey has a BFA in acting and an MFA in directing from Carnegie-Mellon University.