HAL BROOKS

is a Brooklyn-based freelance director and the Associate Artistic Director the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He directed the Obie winning No Child... by Nilaja Sun as well as the world premiere of Will Eno’s Pulitzer Finalist Thom Pain. Recent projects: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Two River), Sam Hunter’s The Whale (PlayPenn) and Mona Mansour’s Urge for Going (Ojai Playwrights Conference) which will be produced as part of Public Lab this Spring. A Drama League Fellow, Hal is also a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, SDC, and is a recipient of the 2007-09 NEA TCG Career Development Program for Directors. Recent projects: Creative Consultant on Colin Quinn’s LONG STORY SHORT, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, BOOM at NYU Graduate Acting, The Fish Bowl by Fia Alvarez at the Juillard School.