Williamstown Theatre Festival
Garrett Allen is a seasoned freelance director with extensive experience in theater and arts administration, currently serving as a Freelance Director at Theater! since 2016 and as a Directing Intern at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Prior roles include organizing film screenings as a Harvard College Affiliate for the Ivy Film Festival, contributing to design and layout for The Harvard Advocate, and assisting in production operations at Harvard University's Office for the Arts. Garrett has also held positions such as Venue Manager at American Repertory Theatre, Technical Liaison for the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, and Artistic Assistant at Soho Rep. An educational background from Harvard University includes a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival
Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival. For over six decades, Williamstown Theatre Festival has brought emerging and professional theatre artists together in the Berkshires to create a thrilling summer festival of diverse, world premiere plays and musicals, bold new revivals, and a rich array of accompanying cultural events. For 67 years, artists have been drawn to Williamstown Theatre Festival to make great theatre in an environment conducive to artistic risk-taking. Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald, Dominique Morisseau, Mary-Louise Parker, Susan Stroman, Uma Thurman, and Blair Underwood are just a few of the luminous theatre artists who have worked at the Festival. Many others, including Chris Pine, Kate Hudson, Paul Giamatti, Allison Janney, Brie Larson, George C. Wolfe, and Kiefer Sutherland, began their careers at the Festival. In addition, Williamstown Theatre Festival continues to grow new programs. Among the thriving new initiatives are COMMUNITY WORKS—a one-of-a-kind community-engaged theatre program—and the Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program, through which new work is created year-round by theatre artists including Jocelyn Bioh, Nathan Alan Davis, Halley Feiffer, Justin Levine, Matthew Lopez, Jiehae Park, Benjamin Scheuer, and many others. Productions and artists shaped at the Festival fill theatres in New York City and around the world. In the abbreviated 2019-20 theatrical season alone, Williamstown Theatre Festival was represented or scheduled to be represented on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally by THE SOUND INSIDE and GRAND HORIZONS, both of which received Tony Award nominations for Best Play, THE ROSE TATTOO, SEARED, SELLING KABUL, UNKNOWN SOLDIER, MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW, and LEMPICKA. COST OF LIVING, which was developed and premiered at WTF, was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.