Kerry Whigham

Kerry Whigham has directed plays both in New York and regionally. Most recently, Kerry directed the world premiere of Gregory Moss's punkplay at Brown University. He spent last summer as a Drama League Directing Fellow at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York, and has spent two summers at the Williamstown Theater Festival, directing both the Apprentice and Non-Equity companies. In 2006 he was commissioned to create The Amazing Adventures of Liberty Boy for Syracuse Stage Company with a frequent collaborator, Josh Halloway. They will be continuing work on that play this August at the Hangar Theatre. Kerry is a member of the Drama League's Assistant Directors Program and of the 2006 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. In 2005, Kerry worked with three-time Obie-award winning playwright Adrienne Kennedy to develop her newest play, an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, for which he directed the world-premiere workshop. He also assisted Douglas Carter Beane on the Broadway production of Xanadu and James Lapine on two workshops of The Nightingale, the new musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Other favorite projects include Six Degrees of Separation, Chaucer in Rome, Never Swim Alone, House/Humans, The Blue Room, The Ugly One, and The Argument. He is spending his time now working with several writers to develop plays about Mormonism, American history, sex shops, and Israel/Palestine. Education: NYU. www.kerrywhigham.com