WALTER DALLAS Director, Pudd’nhead Wilson
Walter Dallas, Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s award-winning Freedom Theatre, is thrilled to be creatively involved with the The Acting Company. His wide-ranging directing experiences include over twenty-five world premieres including August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Goodman Theatre, Sam Kelley’s Pill Hill at Yale Rep, and John Henry Redwood’s The Old Settler at McCarter and Long Wharf. He has won national recognition and several awards for his work on and off Broadway, at major American regional theatres and in Africa, England, France, and Russia. His experience shepherding new plays includes work at Sundance, the O’Neill, New Dramatists, Alliance Theatre, Plowshares, Joe Papp’s Public Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, New Federal, American Place, Negro Ensemble Company and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. Mr. Dallas created the School of Theatre for Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and was its Director for ten years. He also taught theatre at Antioch College and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied theatre at Morehouse College (BA), music and theology at Harvard University, African theater at the University of Ghana, and directing at the Yale School of Drama (MFA). Mr. Dallas serves as a Board Member of Theatre Communication Group (TCG) and on the Board of Governors of the African Grove Institute for the Arts.