Michael Sexton is currently the Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Society in NYC. As a freelance director, he has directed world and New York premieres of plays by Marsha Norman, Rinne Groff, Ain Gordon, Rogelio Martinez, Victor Lodato, Phil Porter, Chloe Moss, Marin Gazzaniga, Caryl Churchill, Rosemary Moore, and Robert Clyman and workshops of plays by Tony Kushner. He has worked at New York Theater Workshop, the Public Theater, Manhattan Class Company, Soho Rep, PS122, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, Playmakers Rep, Rising Phoenix Rep, Cherry Lane Alternative, the Samuel Beckett Theater, and the Harold Clurman Theater, among others. He is a regular guest artist at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program (Zelda Fichandler, Chair), theJuilliardSchool (Michael Kahn, Chair), and most recently,Columbia University. He co-edited (with Tim Page) Four Plays by Dawn Powell for Steerforth Press. He was born inBrooklyn.
