This site is designed to introduce you to my work as a Director and Playwright. I have twenty years of experience as a director and am always looking for new collaborators, producers, and theatre companies with whom I can share my work. I have home bases at The Ensemble Studio Theatre (where I am a lifetime member) and Queens Theatre in the Park (where I serve as Casting Consultant), in addition to an active freelance career.  My work is evenly divided between classic plays and new works. I love working with playwrights on brand new pieces, which is the focus of my work at EST and Queens. I am also known for my Shakespeare productions, first with The Mirror Players in Denver and more recently for Theater Ten Ten and The Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival; my style is based on discovering what makes the plays active and alive for a modern audience while being scrupulously faithful to Shakespeare’s poetry. Other great playwrights whose works I’ve directed more than once include Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, and Lanford Wilson. I’m drawn to plays both classic and modern that are based in genuine character relationships, that use humor to explore serious ideas, and that provide rich, exciting roles for actors.

          More recently, I have also begun to focus on playwriting, and I would love to share my own work with you as well. This site should give you some sense of what kind of creative work I do. I hope you enjoy it, and I would love to speak with you about possibilities for collaboration.

Tom Rowan