JAY STULL, DIRECTOR

JAY STULL is a director, dramaturg, playwright, and teacher. Directing credits include: Jenny Schwartz’s As Far As The Day Goes (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), Emily Schwend's Utility (The Amoralists at Rattlestick, NY Times Critic's Pick, NYIT Award for Best Production of a New Play) and Take Me Back (Walkerspace, NY Times Critic's Pick), Noah Mease's Omega Kids (New Light Theater Project at The Access Theater and Dixon Place), Anne Adams’s Strange Country (New Light Theater Project at The Access Theater), and Mark Roberts's Rantoul and Die (The Amoralists at The Cherry Lane, NY Times and Time Out Critics’ Picks). 

He is currently a dramaturg for Ken Rus Schmoll on two projects: the first, with David Greenspan, is Gertrude Stein’s libretto Four Saints in Three Acts; the second, with Crystal Finn, is David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress. He is the former Literary Manager of The Amoralists and a former Steering Committee Member of the Literary Wing at the Lark. He is the playwright-director third of the theater company THIRD PERSON with Noah Mease and Ryan Courtney.

His plays include: The Singularity Play (Finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition; Finalist for the Princess Grace Award; Finalist for Playwright’s Week at The Lark), This Is What You Shall Do (Semi-Finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial), Undone (Winner of Columbia@Roundabout Prize), Antarabhava (Barn Arts Residency), STREEPSHOW! (produced by The Tank at The Connelly Theater; Ars Nova’s ANTFest; Dixon Place’s HOT! Fest), 6 MO @ NH (with EllaRose Chary; The Civilians, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater; ArtLab at Harvard College), and The Capables (Anna Sosenko Trust Assist Grant; produced by the Gym at Judson and the Bloomington Playwrights Project; Semi-finalist for the O’Neill). 

He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Civilians R&D Group, and the SDCF Observership Class, and was a Directing Fellow in the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Directing Fellowship. He was an artist-in-residence and visiting professor in the Theater, Dance, and Media concentration at Harvard College in the fall semester of 2020. MFA: Columbia. www.jaystull.com