SHELLEY BUTLER Tour Director

SHELLEY BUTLER (Tour Director) has over thirty Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional credits, and has worked extensively with writers on new plays and musicals. Recent: Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 (world premiere, South Coast Repertory) Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Japanese premiere, Imperial Theatre in Tokyo). She has directed and developed work across the country for Ars Nova, Primary Stages, EST, WP Theater, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, Geva, The Old Globe, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New York Stage and Film, PlayPenn, New Dramatists, New Georges, The Playwright’s Realm, Keen Company, and The Lark. Shelley is the recipient of a Drama League Directing Fellowship, a 2005 Director’s Guild of America Trainee, a member of SDC, the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, and the WP Directors Lab. Shelley spent two seasons as artistic associate in charge of new play development for Hartford Stage and three seasons as artistic associate for Great Lakes Theater Festival. www.shelleybutler.com