Tina Landau

Tina Landau is an author, director, and teacher, as well as a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. She is a graduate of Yale College and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard's ART, where she also teaches. Additionally, she has taught at New York University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Northwestern University, UCSD, and the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI). She has been a TCG/NEA Directing Fellow, an NEA Artistic Associate, and has received significant grants from the Rockefeller, Princess Grace, W. Alton Jones, and Pew Foundations. Her original works, which she both wrote and directed, include Theatrical Essays (Steppenwolf), Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse), Space (Steppenwolf; The Public Theater, New York; Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles), Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons, New York; Old Globe, San Diego; Goodman, Chicago), Dream True (Vineyard Theatre, New York), Stonewall (En Garde Arts, New York), and 1969 (Actors Theatre of Louisville).