Staff | Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation

Justin Emeka

Justin Emeka is the resident director of Pittsburgh Public Theater, as well as a tenured professor of Theatre and Africana studies at Oberlin College. As a director, writer, actor, and Capoeirista he specializes in new approaches to “classic” texts, as …

Michael Wilson

Treasurer

Michael Wilson most recently directed the Tony Award winning revival of Horton Foote’s *The Trip to Bountiful* and Roundabout Theater Company’s Off-Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s *Talley’s Folly*. His other work on Broadway includes Gore Vidal’s *The Best Man*…

Linda Hartzell

**Linda Hartzell** (*Artistic Director Emerita*) served as Artistic Director of Seattle Children’s Theater from 1984 until her retirement in 2016. She received her BA in Education from the University of Washington. She directed 87 plays, 56 of which …

Christopher Ashley

Christopher Ashley has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since October 2007. He has directed the Broadway productions of *Memphis* (Tony nomination direction), *Leap of Faith*, *Xanadu* (Drama Desk nomination direction), *All Shook Up* and *The Rocky Horror* …

Laura Penn

Laura Penn joined Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) in 2008, after a 25-year management career in the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). Under her leadership SDC Membership has grown 35%, a result of successful expansion of jurisdiction nationally and …

Walter Bobbie

Walter Bobbie directed *Bright Star, Venus in Fur*, *The Landing*, *Golden Age*, *School for Lies*, *Irving Berlin’s White Christmas*, *Chicago*, *The Submission*, *The Savannah Disputation*, *New Jerusalem*, *High Fidelity*, *The* …

Seema Sueko

SEEMA SUEKO grew up in Honolulu, with a Pakistani father and a Japanese American mother. Conversations about the arts, politics and community wove through her upbringing, stitching the tapestry of her core belief: theater is transformative and can contribute to …

Anne Bogart

Anne Bogart is a Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include *Persians*, *Steel* …

Jo Bonney

Jo Bonney has directed premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Eric Bogosian, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Danny Hoch, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Lynn Nottage, Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Darci Picoult, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Seth Zvi …

Maria Torres

Maria Torres’ extensive career as director, choreographer, instructor, and Producer began as a critically acclaimed performer, contributing choreography while performing in the film Dance, with the six-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical Swing and Me!. Torres was nominated for a 2018 Ovation …

Victoria Traube

Victoria Traube is Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs of Concord Theatricals, North America. She is responsible for the business and legal affairs of Concord Theatricals, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and Concord’s motion picture and television division. She started work …

Joe Calarco

**Joe Calarco’s** Off-Broadway credits include *Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky* at Playwrights Horizons; *Boy* and *In Transit* (Drama Desk Nomination) at Primary Stages; *in the absence of spring* (writer/director) at Second Stage; *Sarah, Plain and Tall* at The …

Founded in 1965, Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation (SDCF) exists to foster, promote and develop the creativity and craft of stage directors and choreographers. SDCF’s goals are to provide opportunities to practice the crafts of directing and choreography; to gather and disseminate craft and career information; to promote the profession to emerging talent; to provide opportunities for exchange of knowledge among directors and choreographers; to increase the awareness of the value of directors’ and choreographers’ work, and to convene around issues affecting theatre artists.

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