Dustin Wills is a stage director and scenic designer for theatre and opera. Upcoming productions include Jerome at Playwrights Horizons and The Grief Eater Near North Bender at Roundabout. Recent directing credits include Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Counterfeit Opera and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Little Island (Best Theater of 2024, New York Magazine), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Directing), Six Characters (Lincoln Center), Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons & MCC), Montag (Soho Rep), Eugene Onegin (Heartbeat Opera), and Romeo and Juliet (National Asian American Theatre Company). Dustin has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, 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 2023 Obie Award winner, Princess Grace Award recipient, and Baryshnikov Center Artist Resident 2018. He teaches in the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
Dustin Wills
Lecturer in Directing
