BIO
Wiley Hausam is the Director of Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, including of the acclaimed series, PEAK Performances.
He was the associate producer of George C. Wolfe’s Broadway productions of The Tempest (1996) starring Patrick Stewart, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk (1996) starring Savion Glover, On the Town (1998) and The Wild Party (2000) starring Mandy Patinkin, Eartha Kitt and Toni Collette. He also presented Audra McDonald’s first ever live concert, which was the first show in Joe’s Pub (1998).
Hausam has a long and successful track record (since 2002) as a performing arts presenter at Stanford University, Purchase College/SUNY, New York University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC.
He has opened and launched three new venues: at Stanford (Bing Concert Hall in 2013), NYU (the Skirball Center in 2003) and the now legendary downtown club Joe’s Pub (1998). Before that, he worked for more than ten years producing theater in New York City both downtown at The Public Theater, in the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park and on Broadway.
At the beginning of his career, he was a successful theater agent at ICM for such artists as George C. Wolfe, Anna Deavere Smith, Michael John LaChiusa, Jonathan Larson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Doug Wright, Adriana Trigiani, Scott Frankel and a number of others.
Hausam is the editor of The New American Musical: An Anthology from the End of the Century, which includes Floyd Collins, Rent, Parade and the LaChiusa/Wolfe The Wild Party, published by TCG in 2003.
He taught at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at Tisch NYU and at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.