Misti Brooke Wills                                               Email:misti@mistiwills.com

"Misti B. Wills's production generates some effective, nuanced performances" Timeout NY about Afterlight

"Director Misti B. Wills has assembled an appealing cast and injected some nice flourishes"  Backstage about The Drunken City

**Directing Experience

Off- Broadway

Twilight the Musical        Assistant Director                   New World Stages, Dir: Gabriel Barre
In Search of Euphoria                                                        New World Stages (Richard Frankel Productions, Fidelity Futurestage)    
                                 

Off-Off Broadway

*=Equity Staged Reading

        The Drunken City                                                        Jump for Joy Productions, NY Workshop Theater
      *Twelfth Night                                                                Shakespeare's Sister Company, Hudson Guild Theater

Afterlight by Monica Flory                          The Cherry Lane Theater, FringeNYC and Threads Theater Company
The Pearl Merchant                                     Times Sq. Arts Center. Threads Theater Co.

*Another Man’s Poison by George O’Brome       The Player’s Club, NYC

*The Princess and the Goblin                                 Threads Productions, Times Sq. Arts Center

The Imaginary Invalid (National Tour)                       National Theatre for Arts and Education,

              The Lamb’s Theater, NYC

Songs for A New World                                                  The 411, NYC

*The Importance of Being Earnest                          The Lamb’s Theatre

*The Heidi Chronicles                                           Threads Productions, Times Sq. Arts Center

*Deadheading Roses                                                Threads Productions, NYC

*Twilight by Monica Flory (original)                       Threads Productions, Times Sq. Arts Center

*Asleep in the Arms of God by Jay Duffer             Threads Productions, Times Sq. Arts Center

Regional

Thistle Blossoms                                                        Ryan Repertory Theater

A Thing of Beauty                                                     Ryan Repertory Theater

Academic/other Professional

Twelfth Night                                                Long Island University, Brooklyn campus
A Doll's House                                                Fordham University
No Exit                                                           Long Island University, Brooklyn campus

The Music Man                                             Eastern Nazarene College

Alice in Wonderland                                     Eastern Nazarene College

Bocon!                                                             Eastern Nazarene College & Emerson College

The Sound of Music                                       Eastern Nazarene College

West Side Story                                             Westwood High School            

*Shades of Black (original)                           Westwood High School

Damn Yankees                                               Westwood High School

Fortress                                                           Westwood High School

Once on this Island                                         Framingham Center for Performing Arts

Our Town                                                        Westwood High School

Annie                                                                Thurston Middle School   

The Wizard of Oz                                            Thurston Middle School

A Thousand Cranes                                         Long Lake Camp for the Performing Arts

The Secret Garden                                           Long Lake Camp for the Performing Arts

Education
Master of Arts in Theater Education                           Emerson College    Boston, MA  1997
Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts                     Eastern Nazarene College   Quincy, MA  1992

  
Related Work Experience
Casting Director				  Hydra (independent film)   Karmic Entertainment
Instructor of Speech and Acting                          New York Film Academy 2007-present
Instructor of Theater and Speech                       Eastern Nazarene College 2002-2005
Theater Producer                                                                      Eastern Nazarene College Seasons 2003-2005
Production Assistant                                             Drama Desk Awards Show 2005-2009
 
Awards
 * Shades of Black winner of the MA High School Drama Festival Competition preliminary round       2002

* Fortress  winner of the MA High School Drama Festival Competition preliminary round        2001

New England Theatre Conference Award for Outstanding College Production 2004 for The Diary of Anne Frank, Eastern Nazarene College.  Served as Producer.
 
Special Training
Directing with Anne Bogart at SITI Company, NYC
Acting Shakespeare with Alec Harrington at HB Studios
 
Related Skills: Spanish, Piano, Drama workshops, Theater Education Study Guides. 
 
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**The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

 
 
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