Dustin Wills

Theater

Dustin Wills

Princess Grace Award:
Theater Scholarship, 2013, Lynn Wyatt Theater Award

Additional Grants:
• 2017 Works in Progress Residency Award
• 2014 Special Project Award

DUSTIN WILLS is an NYC-based theatre director originally from Texas. Recent projects include Frontieres Sans Frontieres by Phillip Howze at the Bushwick Starr, Orange Julius by Basil Kreimendahl with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre & PAGE 73, a new musical with Kate Tarker and Dan Schlosberg called AWFUL EVENT!, and ongoing work on a trio of short Lorca plays translated into a three-part evening including The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife - a play with music; Once Five Years Pass - a musical; and The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden - an opera. Dustin has worked with The Foundry Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Bushwick Starr, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Rep, Echo Theatre, Yale Rep, Berkshire Theatre Group, Lark Play Development Center, Paper Chairs, and Salvage Vanguard Theatre; created large-scale community puppet projects with Creative Action; and devised new work for The English Theatre of Rome and Teatro L'Arciliuto in Rome, Italy. He is a three-time recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre, a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow, former artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. MFA: Yale School of Drama. 
 

website: http://www.dustinwills.com/


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