Eric Tucker

Director

Eric, named Wall Street Journal Director of the Year in 2014, makes his American Shakespeare Center debut with this production. Off Broadway, Eric worked on Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet; Pygmalion; Peter Pan; Vanity Fair; Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (which won the Off Broadway Alliance Award, a Lortel nomination for Best Director, a Drama League nomination for Best Revival, and 4 Helen Hayes awards, including Best Director and Best Production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (scoring a Drama League nomination for Best Revival, and won WSJ Best Classical Production in 2015); Bedlam’s Saint Joan (which got on NY Times and Time Magazine’s top 10, and received Off Broadway Alliance’s Best Revival 2014); Bedlam’s Hamlet (NY Times top 10); Tina Packer’s Women of Will; New York Animals (a World Premiere by Steven Sater/ Burt Bacharach), Twelfth Night and What You Will (NYTCritics Picks); and The Seagull (WSJ Best Classical Production 2014). His other work includes The Rivals (BRT); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (OSF); Pericles (APT, WSJ Best Classical Production 2017); Copenhagen (Central Square Theatre); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (HVSF); and Mate (The Actors’ Gang). Eric resides in New York City where he is Artistic Director of Bedlam.