Emily Mann

(ArtisticDirector/Resident Playwright)

Multi-award-winning Director and Playwright Emily Mann is in her 23rd season as Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre. Under Ms. Mann’s leadership, McCarter was honored with the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. Most recently at McCarter, Ms. Mann directed the world premieres of The Convert by Danai Gurira (also at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and CTG in Los Angeles; six Ovation Awards, including Best Director of a Play and nominated for thirteen; also nominated for three Jeff Awards including Best Production), Phaedra Backwards by Marina Carr, Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why, and Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I (also at Playwrights Horizons). Among the plays she directed at McCarter are: Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics (also on Broadway), the world premiere of Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon (also off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons), All Over (also off-Broadway at The Roundabout; 2003 Obie Award for Directing), Three Sisters, A Doll House, The Glass Menagerie, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Last spring, Emily directed A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway with Blair Underwood, Wood Harris, Nicole Ari Parker, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Emily’s plays include Execution of Justice (Guggenheim Fellowship; Helen Hayes and Joseph Jefferson Awards; Drama Desk and Outer Circle Award nominations); Still Life (six Obie Awards); Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; and Annulla, An Autobiography. Ms. Mann wrote and directed Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; NAACP and Joseph Jefferson Awards; Peabody and Christopher Awards for the screenplay). A collection of her plays, Testimonies: Four Plays, has been published by TCG. Her latest play, Mrs. Packard, was the recipient of the 2007 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award and was published by TCG in spring 2009. Her adaptations include: three Chekhov plays (Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and a free adaptation of The Seagull: A Seagull in the Hamptons) and House of Bernarda Alba (recently staged in London). A winner of the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and the Edward Albee Last Frontier Directing Award, Emily is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on its council. She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Princeton University and was named the 2011 Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference.

Timothy J. Shields

(Managing Director)

Timothy J. Shields (Managing Director) is happy to return for his third season as McCarter’s Managing Director. This is his second period of employment at McCarter. From 1983 through 1992 he was McCarter’s Business Manager, and later General Manager. His professional career spans 30 years and includes serving as Managing Director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater for ten and a half years and as Managing Director at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY for six. He has also held administrative positions at The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN, and the Denver Center Theatre Company. He was recently honored to be elected President of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the nationwide management association of larger professional non-profit theaters such as McCarter. He is delighted to be joining the board of ArtPride New Jersey which works to increase awareness at local, state and national levels for funding, support and recognition of the arts as being vital to New Jersey’s quality of life, education and economic vitality. During his career, Mr. Shields has also served on the boards of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for professional non-profit theater; Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board, and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. He was co-founder of Wisconsin’ statewide theater association, Theatre Wisconsin, and served as its President for eight years. He has been a panelist, a panel chair, and an on-site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts. As a consultant he has led strategic planning retreats and conduced searches for leadership positions for other theaters.  He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama Production from Carnegie-Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA.

Bill Lockwood

WILLIAM W. LOCKWOOD, JR.
(Special Programming Director)

Mr. Lockwood has been programming events at McCarter for over 50 years as Special Programming Director for McCarter. Mr. Lockwood is responsible for McCarter's classical music, dance, cabaret, jazz, and special events programs.

In addition to his work at McCarter Theatre, Mr. Lockwood is the New Jersey Performing Arts Centre's (NJPAC) Principal Programming Associate when it opened its doors to great fanfare in 1997.

Prior to these positions, Mr. Lockwood joined Lincoln Center in 1965 as Assistant Director of Programming and was appointed as an Executive Director of Programming in 1970, a position he held for over 20 years. In that capacity, Mr. Lockwood served as the director of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and also administered other regular performance programs including the Great Performers Series, Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors and the Serious Fun Festival, a series of performance art and new music series.

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