Gregory Boyd
Alley Theatre Artistic Director

GREGORY BOYD – At the Alley he has directed Wonderland (premiere), The Gershwins' An American in Paris (premiere), Jekyll & Hyde (premiere, and first national tour), Treasure Island (premiere), Cyrano de Bergerac, Hitchcock Blonde, Hapgood, The Pillowman, The Invention of Love, Rock 'n' Roll, Three Sisters, In the Jungle of Cities, After the Fall, The Greeks, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among others. Recent productions outside the Alley include Travesties (Sam Waterston, Tom Hewitt) at Long Wharf, Our Town (Hal Holbrook) at Hartford Stage, Design for Living (Marisa Tomei, Campbell Scott, Steven Weber) at Williamstown. He is co-author of The Civil War (Tony Nomination, Best Musical). During his tenure, the Alley has risen in national and international prominence, winning the Special Tony Award and experiencing record growth in its Houston audiences, while also transferring its productions to major European Festivals (including two in one season at the Venice Biennale), to Broadway, and on tour to 40 American cities. Boyd's addition of artistic associates such as Edward Albee, Robert Wilson, Frank Wildhorn, and Vanessa Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave, and his commitment to maintaining a resident company of actors has made the Alley unique among American theater companies.

At the Alley, Mr. Boyd has produced over 100 new productions of the widest ranging repertoire in the country, and his Alley premieres have been nominated for eight Tony Awards – among them the premieres of Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams (Alley, London, Broadway, director Trevor Nunn), Jekyll & Hyde, (Alley, National Tour, Broadway), The Civil War (which he also co-authored). New Alley productions have included: Shakespeare’s Roman Plays (with Vanessa and Corin Redgrave); Robert Wilson’s productions of Hamlet, When We Dead Awaken and Danton's Death (with Richard Thomas); Ellen Burstyn in O’Neill’s Long Day's Journey Into Night and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (Parts 1 & 2) both directed by Michael Wilson, David Cromer’s productions of The Farnsworth Invention, The Clean House, and Orson’s Shadow, and premieres by Rajiv Joseph (Gruesome Playground Injuries), Kenneth Lin (Intelligence-Slave), Keith Reddin (Synergy); Eve Ensler (Lemonade): and Alley Artistic Associates Edward Albee (The Play About the Baby), Horton Foote (The Carpetbagger's Children), Ken Ludwig (The Gershwins' An American in Paris, Leading Ladies) and Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, Wonderland, and The Civil War). In addition, Boyd directed the recordings of “The Civil War” and “Jekyll & Hyde” for Atlantic Records.

Boyd has served as Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He has taught on the faculties of Carnegie-Mellon, Williams College, the University of Houston and the University of North Carolina, where he headed the Professional Theatre Training Program. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a Distinguished Alumnus, and at Carnegie-Mellon.