About Gilbert McCauley

Gilbert McCauley is a Full Professor in his 22nd year in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer at Rhode Island College, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, California State University, Dominguez Hills, University of California, Berkeley and a Visiting Professor at Laney College and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He has served as the Producing Artistic Director of Oakland Ensemble Theatre, Resident Director at Brown University’s 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, Hartford Stage, New Century Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage and the National Theatre of Ghana. His directing credits include, August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, Fences, The Piano Lesson, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Barbecue, by Robert O'Hara, The Civilities and 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 and Puddin' & Pete, 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, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.

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