Gordon Greenberg (Director) has directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed, and produced new works for arts institutions across America.
Recent work includes the acclaimed revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (L.A. Drama Critics Award) starring Calista Flockhart and Zachary Quinto at the Geffen Playhouse; Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (director & co-writer with Steve Rosen) at New World Stages Crime & Punishment, A Comedy (director & co-writer with Steve Rosen) for the Old Globe; The Secret of My Success (director & co-writer, Universal Stage Productions); Piaf/Dietrich for Mirvish in Toronto (Dora Award); the upcoming NBC television series “Most Talkative” (Writer/Co-Executive Producer for NBC, Blumhouse, & Andy Cohen); and “Picasso” starring Antonio Banderas (director & co-writer with Stephen Schwartz and Caridad Svich, Trafalgar Entertainment).
Greenberg co-wrote and directed the Broadway stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn at Studio 54 for Roundabout Theatre Company, Universal Stage Productions, and PBS Television’s Great Performances. His West End revival of Guys and Dolls was nominated for six Olivier Awards at the Savoy Theatre and then transferred to the Phoenix Theatre (starring Rebel Wilson.) Greenberg adapted & directed the Drama Desk Award winning production of Studs Terkel’s Working with Lin-Manuel Miranda & Stephen Schwartz (59 E 59, Broadway In Chicago, Old Globe), the acclaimed New York revival of Jacques Brel…, the London revival of Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Tangled for Disney. Other theatre directing includes Williamstown, Ars Nova, Chichester Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Signature, The New Group, Old Globe, Goodspeed, Huntington, Dallas Theater Center, Muny, Capital Rep, Centre Segal Montreal, Broadway Moscow, Vindobona Vienna. Other writing includes the podcast comedy series “Rolling Calls” starring Richard Kind and Julie Halston (with Steve Rosen), the podcast “Theatre Camp” for Sirius XM (with Jonathan Marc Sherman), Disney’s Believe (with Kirsten Childs), Killing Time (with Steve Rosen), Play At Home commissioned by The Old Globe, the new book of Meet Me In St. Louis for the St. Louis MUNY’s 100th Anniversary, and television movies for Disney, WB, and Nickelodeon (with Michael Weiner). Greenberg attended Stanford University and NYU Film School – and is a Founding Curator at Ars Nova and an Associate Artist at The New Group and The Old Globe. He is also deeply involved in arts education and is Co-Director of Broadway Teachers Workshop and has taught master classes at Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Oklahoma, Belmont University, Hartt School of Music, Broadway Moscow, Broadway Berlin, and Arts Ed in London. He is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, The Writers Guild of America, The Dramatists Guild, and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.