Stuart Carden

Stuart Carden is a Chicago based director. Most recently he helped develop and direct PigPen Theatre Co.’s new play with folk music and shadow puppets The Old Man and The Old Moon which is on an East Coast tour this summer and fall at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The New Victory in NYC and ArtsEmerson in Boston. In Chicago he worked most recently with Writers Theatre where he was the associate artistic director for five seasons and directed The Old Man and The Old Moon which ran for over 100 performances, the US Premiere of Scottish playwright David Greig's Yellow Moon, Chicago playwright Randall Colburn's play Hesperia, and Giles Havergal's adaptation of the Graham Greene novel Travels with My Aunt (Jeff Nomination Outstanding Production, Director & Ensemble). Other recent directing projects include Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (Kevin Kline Nomination Outstanding Production, Director & Ensemble), Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (Kevin Kline Nomination Outstanding Production & Ensemble), Curt Columbus and Marilyn Campell’s adaptation of Crime and Punishment, and Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Kevin Kline Nomination Outstanding Production, Director & Ensemble) at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; David Harrower’s Blackbird, Stephen Massicottes’ Mary's Wedding, Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso and Tristine Schyler’s The Moonlight Room at City Theatre; Shishir Kurup’s The Merchant on Venice (Jeff Award Adaptation & Nominations for Production and Top Ten Play of Year by Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times and Time Out Chicago), David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child, and Yussef el Guindi’s Back of the Throat and 10 Acrobats at Silk Road Theatre Rising; and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Martin Crimp’s adaptation of The False Servant, and Marie Jones’ Stones in his Pockets for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre. Stuart is a proud alum of Carnegie Mellon University, a member of SDC, married to contemporary art curator Neysa Page-Lieberman and Dad to twin two year olds Dashiell and Griffin.