WILL DAVIS: Davis is the first transgender person to lead a major nonprofit institution without a defined LGBTQ mission. As a director and choreographer, his work has been seen off-broadway at City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for his direction of Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons. He is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the NYTW 2050 Directing Fellowship, the Brooklyn Art Exchange’s Artist in Residence program, and the Princeton Arts Fellowship. Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater.