
Kenneth Albers
Director, The Admirable Crichton
The Admirable Crichton marks a decade of directing assignments at APT, where he has previously staged productions of The Taming of the Shrew, Learned Ladies, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Widowers’ Houses, The Philanderer, Waiting for Godot and Crime and Punishment. For nearly five decades and 150 productions, his work as a director has been seen on stages throughout the country, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, National Theater of the Deaf, Indiana Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Deaf Repertory Theater and the La Crosse Community Theater where, as Managing Director, he began his directing career. Since staging last season’s Crime and Punishment, Ken has directed his own adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial for Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona for the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an Independent Labor Union