Oskar J. Eustis

OSKAR EUSTIS is the Artistic Director of The Public Theater and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country. He was the Artistic Director of The Redwing Theater Company in New York from 1976-1980, as well as the Artistic Director of Das Labor, the laboratory theater of the Schauspielhaus Zurich in Switzerland from 1978-1980. From 1981 through 1986 he was resident director and dramaturg at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, and Artistic Director until 1989, when he moved to the L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum as Associate Artistic Director until 1994. Eustis then served as Artistic Director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island for eleven years, during which time he was the founder and Chair of the Brown/Trinity consortium for Theater Training. In 2005 he took the helm at New York’s Public Theater.

Throughout his career, Eustis has been dedicated to the development of new work that speaks to the great issues of our time and has worked with countless artists in pursuit of that aim, including Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, David Henry Hwang, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Richard Nelson, Rinne Groff, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Lisa Kron. Mr. Eustis has taught at UCLA, Brown University, Middlebury College and NYU, and holds honorary doctorates from Brown University and Rhode Island College.