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Producing Artistic Director

Michael Donald Edwards (Producing Artistic Director) is in his sixth season as producing artistic director of Asolo Repertory Theatre. He was previously the associate artistic director of Syracuse Stage and served as artistic director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz.  A Garland Award and Drama Logue Award winning director, Mr. Edwards has directed at  Cleveland Playhouse; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Geva Theatre; Syracuse Stage; The Shakespeare Theatre; San Jose Rep; Opera San Jose; the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; the Old Globe in San Diego; Virginia Stage Company; the Virginia Opera; the State Theatre of South Australia; Opera Australia; Victoria State Opera; and the Metropolitan Opera. In previous seasons for Asolo Rep, Mr. Edwards directed Las Meninas, La Bête, The Last Five Years, The Life of Galileo, Perfect Mendacity, The Winter’s Tale, Equus, A Tale of Two Cities, Darwin in Malibu, Nobody Don’t Like Yogi, Amadeus, The Smell of the Kill, and pieces in the first and second annual Unplugged festival of new plays. This season he will be directing his English adaptation as well as Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz’s Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s text in Hamlet: Prince of Cuba, and pieces in the third annual Unplugged.