Director

David
Esbjornson

Premieres include: Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Broadway) and the Play About the Baby (Century), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Broadway) and Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller (Guthrie), Angels in America: Millenium Approaches and the first staged presentation of Perestroika (Eureka), Homebody/Kabul (London),), Neal Bell’s Therese Raquin (CSC), In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (Public), Albom/Hatcher’s Tuesdays With Morrie (Minetta Lane) Israel Horowitz’ My Old Lady (Promenade), Kathleen Tolan’s Memory House (Playwrights), Ariel Dorfman’s Purgatorio, and Kevin Kling’s How? How? Why? Why? Why? (SRT). Recent work: Measure for Measure (NYSF Delacorte), Moira Buffini’s Gabriel and Peter Parnell’s Trumpery (Atlantic), Allison and Margaret Engels’ Molly Ivins (PTC). Revivals include: Driving Miss Daisy (Broadway and West End), Death of a Salesman (Gate-Dublin), Hamlet (TFNY), A Few Good Men (West End), All My Sons (Huntington), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), The Normal Heart (Public), Mud and Drowning (Signature), The Entertainer, The Maids, Endgame, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (CSC), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Summer and Smoke (Guthrie), Twelfth Night and Lady From Dubuque,), Farmyard (NYTW). David has served as Artistic Director of NYC Classic Stage Company and Seattle Repertory Theatre and is the current Chair of Theatre at Rutger’s University.