Dustin Wills

Dustin Wills is a theatre and opera director based in New York City. Upcoming productions include Jeremy O Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Heartbeat Opera), and a concert spectacle of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies (Little Island NYC). Recent productions include Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play at Soho Rep which was awarded the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production, Romeo & Juliet (National Asian American Theatre Company), John J. Caswell Jr.’s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC), Kate Tarker’s Montag (Soho Rep), Phillip Howze’s Frontières Sans Frontières at the Bushwick Starr (named a 2017 Top Ten Theatrical Production by New York Magazine), and Awful Event! (Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency). Recent opera: Handel’s Alcina, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Stravinsky’s соловей. Wills has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, created large-scale puppetry pageants with Creative Action, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a Princess Grace Award recipient, as well as a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow. He serves as a lecturer in the Directing and Playwriting Programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale with a focus on new play development/collaboration and directing for opera.