Maria Mileaf (Director)

Maria Mileaf is thrilled to be back at Primary Stages, where she directed Lee Blessings’ Body of Water and his Going to St. Ives, which won the 2005 Outer Critic Circle Award for Best New Play. In NYC, she has directed Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder and Maria Milisavljevic’s Abyss for the Play Company, Alan Zweibel’s Playing God for Throughline @ 59E59, Alexandra Gersten-Vasillaros’ The Argument at The Vineyard, Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice at Playwrights Horizons. Favorite regional directing credits include Patricia Wettig’s F2M and Joanna Murray-Smith’s Ninety at New York Stage and Film; Nash’s The Rainmaker at The Old Globe; Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit and Lynne Nottage’s Ruined at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, where Mileaf won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Story; Lucy Prebble’s Sugar Syndrome, John Belluso’s A Nervous Smile and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Let There Be Love at ACT in San Francisco. On the West End, Maria directed Richard Schiff in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel.