I like plays; rehearsing and seeing them far more than reading them.  Theater is a visual, auditory, physical, emotional and intellectual experience.  I like a lot of different kinds of plays.  I am not limited in style. I've directed the Greeks, Miller, Williams, Kaufman and Hart. Tragedies, dramas and comedies. Classics, modern classics, new plays.

In looking for common threads I find I am attracted to plays with story, with language that is articulate and/or poetic but plays not language-bound.  A text that is connected to the human spirit, where conflicts and vibrancy of the characters emerge.

The theater is about the human condition, how we interact and relate to one another, to and within our society and with ourselves. Many of the plays I've directed have been naturalistic or realistic; this is not an imperative.  What is primary is a strong sense of story, theatricality, and that the characters have some core logic to their behavior.

I love the word process. The process (noun) and to process (verb). It's from the Old French proces, meaning journey, a going and in Latin processus from procedere, to go forth.

The process of the work, not the product is what stimulates me, and the audience and the opening night date drives the process. But the joy is in discovery and exploration, the layers and the details, of telling a story through the verbal and the non-verbal, the visual, the auditory. I relish the investigation and mining of text; of digging and searching for clues; fleshing out the script through movement, inflection, color, nuance; collaborating with actors and designers…and 'round and 'round…peeling away the onion, then layer upon layer…rehearsal upon rehearsal, going forth.