
Oskar Eustis is the Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company and the Chair of the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. Eustis has collaborated with Leon Cooper in the past, staging rehearsals for Trinity Rep's presentation of Copenhagen as part of an earlier edition of Physics 10.
This is Oskar Eustis' tenth season
as Artistic Director at Trinity Rep. At Trinity Rep he has directed Julius
Caesar, Slavs!, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Voir
Dire, Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches, for which he received
the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director from the Boston Theatre Critics
Circle; Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika, Into the Woods,
Ambition Facing West, The Music Man, Nine Armenians,
As You Like It, The Cryptogram, Meshugah, The
Cider House Rules, Part I&2, Homebody/Kabul (Elliot Norton
Award for Outstanding Production), Copenhagen, and the world premiere
of The Long Christmas Ride Home. Last spring he also helmed Trinity
Rep's production of Thunder Knocking on the Door off-Broadway in New
York City.
Mr. Eustis has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the world, including the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, where he was resident director and dramaturg from 1981 through 1986 and Artistic Director until 1989, when he moved to the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Artistic Director. He was also an Associate Professor of Theater at UCLA's School of Film, Television and Theatre. Mr. Eustis has served the National Endowment for the Arts in many capacities, including chairing a Theatre Panel. Commitment to new play development has taken him to Utah's Sundance Institute, the Midwest Playlabs in Minnesota, and the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont, where he serves on the faculty. He serves on the Governor's Task Force for Literacy in the Arts, the Board of Theatre Communications Group, Inc. and the RI Film Commission.