DUSTIN WILLS is an NYC-based theatre and opera director originally from Texas. His Yale Baroque Opera Project collaborations include Cavalli’s L’Egisto and Xerse. Recent productions include The Magic Flute with Yale Opera, Masculinty Max by MJ Kaufman at The Public Theatre, and AWFUL EVENT! with Kate Tarker and Dan Schlosberg at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Dustin has developed plays with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Bushwick Starr, Foundry Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Paper Chairs, and Salvage Vanguard Theatre; created large-scale community puppet projects with Creative Action; and devised new work for The English Theatre of Rome and Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy. He is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre, a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. MFA: Yale School of Drama. dustinwills.com