Will Steinberger is a Drama League Award nominated director and producer. He has directed and developed new plays at New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Hartford Stage, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, Powerhouse Theater, Valdez Theater Conference, the Wilma, and InterAct. He recently directed Andrea Stolowitz’s The Berlin Diaries at 59E59 featuring David Greenspan, produced in association with The New Group.
Other favorite recent productions include Han Van Sciver’s Happy Birthday, Han (JACK), Gina Femia’s meet you at the Galaxy Diner. (New Light/The Tank), Charles Gershman’s Oedipus 2.0.2.0 (All For One f/ Eddie Cooper; Drama League nom), and Johnny G. Lloyd’s Or, an Astronaut Play (The Tank and InVersion Theatre, of which Will is proud co-founder) and birthday birthday birthday (Columbia University).
Will leads new work development at Tony Award-winning Second Stage Theater and has a long association directing and producing for the Jewish Plays Project. He is a former artist in residence at New York Stage and Film and has been a guest speaker or artist at the Yale School of Drama, Brown University MFA Playwriting Program, Syracuse University, Vassar College, and other universities.
Will is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and was honored as a finalist for the National Directors Fellowship. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Forward, WHYY, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philadelphia Magazine.