About Gilbert McCauley

Gilbert McCauley is a masterful theatrical storyteller and a Full Professor in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has served as the Producing Artistic Director of Oakland Ensemble Theatre, Resident Director at Rites and Reason Theatre, as an acting company member of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and he is an alum of the New York Drama League’s Directors Project. Mr. McCauley has directed Off-Broadway and at regional theatres around the country including Arena Stage, Arkansas Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre, New Century Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, SeattleRepertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage and the National Theatre of Ghana. His directing credits include,Barbecue, by Robert O'Hara, salt/city/blues, by Kyle Bass, Athol Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, Jackie Sibblies Drury, We are Proud to Present...,The Call  by Tanya Barfield, Cheryl L. West’s Jar the Floor, The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, Gees Bend by Elyzabeth Gregory-Wilder, Hell in High Water and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi  by Marcus Gardley, Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon, August Wilson’s Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson and Fences, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.