Williamstown Theatre Festival
Phillip James Montaño is an experienced theater professional currently serving as the Special Programs Associate at the Williamstown Theatre Festival since June 2022, where responsibilities include producing special project events and facilitating the Weissberger New Play Award. Montaño has also held academic positions as an Adjunct Professor of Theater at Brandeis University and Austin Community College, teaching courses on theater and drama. Previous experience includes a Graduate Teaching Assistant role at The University of Texas at Austin, a Community Works Associate position at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Additional roles encompass educational and engagement fellowships at the American Repertory Theater and directing drama programs for youth. Montaño's educational credentials include a PhD in Performance as Public Practice from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s Degree in Dramaturgy from Harvard University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Drama from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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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.