Christopher Owens (Chair of the Dept. of Theatre, Speech & Dance) has been the Producing Artistic Director of the Virginia Shakespeare Festival in Williamsburg since 2004, having spent eighteen years prior heading professional theatre companies in Dallas, Texas and Winchester, Virginia. He has directed over 130 professional stage productions from Seattle to Sarasota including such favorites as King Lear, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Amadeus, Noises Off, Summer and Smoke, the national tour of The Fourposter, and ten regional productions of A Christmas Carol. For VSF: The Tempest, Macbeth, Love’s Labours Lost, The Complete History of America Abridged, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Art. He was trained at the Juilliard School in New York under the direction of John Houseman, where his classmates included Robin Williams, Kelsey Grammar, Christopher Reeve, William Hurt and Mandy Patinkin. He is also an Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of William & Mary where he was a recipient in 2013 of the Plumeri Award for faculty excellence.
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