Brett W. Reynolds

Brett W. Reynolds 734 335 0710
brettwreynolds@gmail.com 50 Dakota, Pontiac MI 48341
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Brett W. Reynolds’ career in the theater spans four decades, three continents, and began in the heart of Oakland County, Pontiac, Michigan.

For Stephen Sondheim's award winning Young Playwrights Inc. (YPI founded in 1981): Master Teaching Artist and former Managing Director, Director Caitlin Parrish’s The View From Tall (YPF XXII), Cherry Lane Theater; Lauren Gunderson’s Parts They Call Deep (YPF 2002, Cherry Lane Theater) and Julia Jarcho’s Nursery (YPF 2001, Cherry Lane Theater); Jerome Hairston’s The Love of Bullets (YPF/Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival); all well reviewed in The New York Times and other prestigious publications. He has directed many original staged readings by now noted playwrights including Madeleine George (Pulitzer Finalist) as well as producing world premier productions by Carter Bays (How I Met Your Mother); Playwrights produced and trained have gone on to win or be nominated for Academy Awards, Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prize, and Emmy Awards.

For the Independent Shakespeare Company: director Henry V ( Los Angeles Times Critic's Choice); Macbeth (London at The King’s Head, Los Angeles Samuel Goldman Amphitheater, the Los Angeles Times Pick of the Week). He has worked in various capacities in NYC at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theater, Lucille Lortel, and Lincoln Center.. He has served on committees with such noted American playwrights as Stephen Sondheim, Alfred Uhry, David Henry Hwang, Wendy Wasserstein, Craig Lucas, and Diana Son.

As a playwright Great American Children’s Theater: The Secret Garden (Pantages, LA Times Pick of the Week), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Pantages, LA), The Wind and the Willows (Wilshire, LA) music by acclaimed composer Ricky Ian Gordon and The Velveteen Rabbit (with music by Grammy Award Winner Tom Kochan) all seen by over a million theatergoers nationwide.

Reynolds has trained students and teachers worldwide in YPI’s Write A Play! Curriculum (Culture Shack (Melborne Austrailia), the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), North Carolina Theater Education Conferences, and Texas Educational Theater Association).

Consultancies and notable regional and national conferences include: President Clinton’s Summit for America’s Future, Massachusetts Arts Council, New York State Theater Education Association (NYSTEA), South Eastern Theater Conference (SETA), American Association for Theater in Higher Education (AATE), Education Theater Association (ETA), and StageThe Change (Tilles Center, Long Island).
Brett Reynolds has spent over 25 years working as a stage director and Managing Director of Stephen Sondheim’s award winning Young Playwrights Inc. He directed the first professional stage productions of Julia Jarcho’s NURSERY (Jarcho recently won an Obie Award), Lauren Gunderson’s PARTS THEY CALL DEEP (Gunderson is now one of the most produced playwrights in the United States), and Caitlin Parrish’s THE VIEW FROM TALL (Parrish is the writer of Supergirl), and Madeleine George’s THE MOST MASSIVE WOMAN WINS (George’s THE WATSON INTELLIGENCE was recently a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). He occassionally can be found on the wrong side of the footlights most memorably aside Valerie Haas in A Little Night Music (winner, Dearborn Press And Guide Award).