Peter DuBois

artistic director, Huntington Theatre

Peter DuBois (Artistic Director, Huntington Theatre Company) has directed Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss, Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw (after directing its Off Broadway run at Second Stage Theatre and its world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville), and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples for the Huntington. This season, he will direct the world premieres of Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s and Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet. Prior to arriving at the Huntington, he served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. He most recently directed the Off Broadway production of Paul Weitz’s Trust at Second Stage Theatre. His Public Theater directing credits include Glaudini’s Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and A View from 151st Street, both with LAByrinth Theater Company; Measure for Pleasure (SSDF Callaway Award for Excellence in Direction; Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Production of a New Play); Richard III with Peter Dinklage; Adrienne Kennedy’s Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?; and Biro. Selected directing credits for Perseverance include The Seagull, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, and The Glass Menagerie, as well as the West Coast premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks’s In the Blood and the world premiere of Chay Yew’s Long Season. Regional credits include a revival of Sam Shepard’s The Curse of the Starving Class at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and productions at Trinity Repertory Company and California Shakespeare Theater. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague.