Gary M. English is a stage director and designer with over 100 productions at many of America’s leading repertory theater companies including The Pittsburgh Public, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, San Francisco Playhouse, The Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Pioneer Theatre Company, in Salt Lake City. Recent projects include directing his new adaptation of Antigone ay Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) and designing regional premieres of A Light In The Piazza and King Charles III at the Pioneer, He directed, The Miracle Worker, at The Berkshire Theatre Festival and directed and designed, A Man For All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, and Olives and Blood by Michael Bradford at CRT where he served as Founding Artistic Director for fifteen years. Gary English directed and designed The Island, by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona for the The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank, where he also served as Artistic Director 2012 - 2013. The Island toured to six countries including Brazil, Sweden, Norway, France, India and the U.S.  He continues as a consultant and artistic associate of The Freedom Theatre 

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Conducting research since 2010, Gary English recently published Theatre and Human Rights: The Politics of Dramatic Form, released by Routledge in August, 2024, and Stories Under Occupation and other Plays from Palestine, co-edited by Samer Al-Saber and released by Seagull Press/University of Chicago in July 2020. His  chapter "Artistic Practice and Production at the Freedom Theatre: The Interpenetration of the Personal and the Political" was recently published in the anthology: Theater in the Middle East: Between Performance and Politics, edited by Babak Rahimi and published by Anthem Press.

 

Gary English is Distinguished Professor of Drama at The University of Connecticut, an affiliate faculty member with the Human Rights Institute, and served as Visiting Professor at Al-Quds/Bard College and Head of the Media Studies Program at AlQuds/Bard College at Al Quds University in Abu Dis, Palestine.