Leadership
Peter DuBois is the Artistic Director of the Huntington Theatre Company, where he has directed the world premieres of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, Bob Glaudini's Vengeance is the Lord's, and David Grimm's The Miracle at Naples, as well as Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss and Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw.
He directed Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, now playing at the Roundabout Theatre Company, and will direct Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn at Playwrights Horizons this spring. He recently directed Zach Braff's All Good People and Paul Weitz's Trust at Second Stage Theatre and the UK premiere of Becky Shaw for London's Almeida Theatre in addition to directing its Off Broadway production at Second Stage Theatre and its world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Prior to arriving at the Huntington, he served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre
in Juneau, Alaska. His Public Theater directing credits include Glaudini's Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman and A View from 151st Street, both with LAByrinth Theater Company; Measure for Pleasure (SSDF Callaway Award for Excellence in Direction; Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished
Production of a New Play); Richard
III with Peter Dinklage; Adrienne Kennedy's Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?; and Biro. Selected directing credits for Perseverance include The Seagull, The Winter's
Tale, Romeo and Juliet, and The Glass Menagerie, as well as the West Coast premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood and the world premiere of Chay Yew's Long Season. Regional credits include a revival of Sam Shepard's
The Curse of the Starving Class at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and productions at Trinity Repertory Company and California Shakespeare Theater. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived
and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi- national squat theatre in Prague.
Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington's administrative and financial operations since 1982, producing more than 160 plays in partnership with three artistic directors and leading the Huntington's ten-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which
opened in September 2004. In recognition of these efforts, he was honored by the Boston Herald as 2004's Theatre Man of the Year. He received the 2010 Theatre Hero Award from StageSource, the Greater Boston Theatre Alliance. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT),
an association of 70 of the country's major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. He is the 2005 recipient of the Commonwealth Award,
the state's highest arts honor, in the category of Catalyst. In 2000, Mr. Maso
was honored with the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence at Boston's Elliot Norton Awards. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-
profit theatre, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Maso is also a member of the board of directors
of ArtsBoston. Prior to coming to the Huntington, he spent three seasons as
the managing director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He has also been
the general manager of New York's Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico. Mr. Maso is an associate professor of theatre at Boston University.
Peter DuBois and Michael Maso speak with a group of subscribers
from the set of August Wilson's Fences, September 2009.