William Brown
Director, Troilus and Cressida
William Brown returns to APT where he directed last season's sold out comedy The Critic as well as recent productions of Another Part of the Forest, Comedy of Errors, Hay Fever, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Night of the Iguana, The Matchmaker, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, Antony and Cleopatra and Shaw’s You Never Can Tell. A Chicago actor/director, Bill co-wrote and directed the world premiere of To Master the Art, a play about Julia and Paul Child, for TimeLine Theatre. For Writers’ Theatre he recently directed A Little Night Music, as well as Heartbreak House, As You Like It, Rocket to the Moon, Misalliance, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, Incident at Vichy and the world premieres of Brett Neveu's Do the Hustle and Old Glory. He has directed Lady Windermere’s Fan at Milwaukee Rep and Chicago’s Northlight Theatre, where he also directed The Chalk Garden and his own original adaptation with music of She Stoops to Conquer. He directed Fallen Angels and Around the World in Eighty Days for Indiana Repertory Theatre and A Christmas Carol at the Goodman. Bill is the Associate Artistic Director of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, now in its 40th Anniversary Season, where he most recently directed Twelfth Night. To see slideshows from his productions, visit williambrowndirector.com.
Member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an Independent Labor Union
