Kent Gash is the founding Director of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ New Studio on Broadway, where he has directed The Mollyhouse, The Who’s Tommy, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, The Seven, Nine, and 1776 among others. Kent recently directed the acclaimed Public Theatre production of Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue, The Mountaintop at Trinity Repertory Company and The Comedy of Errors for Oregon Shakespeare Festival. With Broadway veteran Walter Marks, Mr. Gash is co-author and director of Langston in Harlem, which received four 2010 Audelco Awards, including Best Musical. Mr. Gash is the former Associate Artistic Director of The Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff, recipient of the 2007 Tony Award for Excellence in Regional Theatre. Directing credits include God of Carnage, 26 Miles (world premiere), Radio Golf, Sophisticated Ladies (Suzi Bass Award, Best Choreography), Pacific Overtures, Jelly’s Last Jam (Suzi Bass Awards, Best Musical, Director and Choreography), and Topdog/Underdog (Co-Production, Alliance, Trinity Rep and New Rep;  Elliot Norton Award-Best Director) tick, tick… BOOM at The Alliance, as well as many others in Atlanta, New York and around the country. Mr. Gash is a Doris Duke Foundation Artist in Residence at Studio Theatre, Washington DC and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Mr. Gash has served on panels for National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group and is on the Board of the Princess Grace Foundation. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (B.F.A. in Acting) and the University of California (Master’s in Directing for the Theatre and Television). Future productions include: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Wig Out at Studio Theatre DC, Gem of the Ocean at South Coast Rep and The Wiz at Ford’s Theatre.