Suzanne Agins

Lecturer in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Suzanne Agins served as Artistic Associate at Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2005-2007.  Recent directing projects include: Jailbait by Deirdre O’Connor (World Premiere, Cherry Lane Theatre), Wing It, a new musical inspired by Aristophanes’ The Birds, by Gordon Cox and Kris Kukul (World Premiere, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Lucy and the Conquest by Cusi Cram (World Premiere, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Silence by Moira Buffini (Roundtable Ensemble), Spin Moves by Ken Weitzman (Summer Play Festival at Theater Row), The Secret Narrative of the Phone Book by Gordon Cox (World Premiere, Kraine Theater), Maddy Mann’s Church Camp Jamboree created with Ryan Migge and Andrew Hansen (Dixon Place), Dusty and the Big Bad World by Cusi Cram (The Juilliard School), Lascivious Something by Sheila Callaghan (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Big Love by Charles Mee (Fordham University).  She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of California, San Diego, where she received the KPBS Patté Award for Outstanding Direction (Life’s a Dream) and two San Diego Playbill Awards for Outstanding Direction (Life’s A Dream, Arrangements by Ken Weitzman).  She is the recipient of a 2006 Princess Grace Directing Fellowship (Robert & Gloria Houseman Theater Award), an adjunct faculty member at Princeton University (her alma mater) and Fordham University, a founding member of the Play Development Collective, and a member of SSDC and the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab.