CV

Appointments, directing work, recognition, residencies, grants, publications, invited speaking, and education.

CV PDF — updated June 2026

Appointments and roles

2025–present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
2018–present Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
present Affiliate Faculty, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
2016–2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, Texas State University
2013–2014 Visiting Artist, Department of Music, New Jersey City University
2013–2015 Program Director, Kennedy Center Directing Intensive, The Kennedy Center
2013 Program Director, Directors Center Directing Intensive, Strand Theater
2012 Program Director, Directing Shakespeare Laboratory, Horse Trade Theater
2011 Visiting Artist, Department of Theater, Wesleyan University
2009–2013 Adjunct Faculty, Steinhardt School of Music, New York University
2008 Guest Director, Steinhardt School of Music, New York University
2008–present Artistic Director, Wolf 359

Directing Work

2026 Hamlet.ai by Michael Yates Crowley Marstall Theater, Residenztheater · Munich · Germany · June 19 and 23, 2026 (developmental workshop)
2025 Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus by Kate Soper New York Philharmonic — David Geffen Hall · New York · 2025 New Works Festival, Smith College · Massachusetts · 2023 (development workshop)
2014–2025 Temping by Michael Yates Crowley 53rd New York Film Festival — The Elinor Bunin Film Center · New York · 2015 University of Maryland · 2015 The Future of Storytelling Festival · New York · 2016 American Repertory Theater · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2017 Mediating Performance Experiences — University of Ottawa · Ottawa, Canada · 2019 Dutch Kills Theater Company and The Wild Project · New York · 2020 Ann Arbor Summer Festival · Ann Arbor, Michigan · 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe — Assembly · Edinburgh, Scotland · 2022 Electric Dreams — Adelaide Fringe · Adelaide, Australia · 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe — Assembly · Edinburgh, Scotland · 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe — Assembly · Edinburgh, Scotland · 2024 Welt/Bühne Festival — Residenztheater · Munich, Germany · 2025
2025 Witch by Jen Silverman Elam Theater, Stanford University · Stanford, California · 2025
2023 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University · Stanford, California · 2023
2023 Memory Room 302 by Sara Walsh, Michael Rau, Derek VanHeel ArtPrize Festival · Grand Rapids, Michigan · 2023
2023 Mrs. Warren by George Bernard Shaw Developmental Stage, Piggott Theater, Stanford University · Stanford, California · 2023
2018–2022 The Group by Michael Rau, Katie Green Reimagine End of Life Festival · New York City · 2018 BlackboxCPH · Copenhagen, Denmark · 2019 Austin presentation · Austin, Texas · 2019 Reimagine Festival · San Francisco, California · 2019 IFOL · Dillendorf, Germany · 2022
2021 Block Association by Michael Yates Crowley Playwrights Realm, Beyond the Realm Festival · New York City · 2019 (development) Humana Festival of New Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville · Louisville, Kentucky · 2021 Paramount Theater · Aurora, Illinois · 2025 (workshop)
2021 StageCast, Experiments in Art and Technology Stanford University · online · 2021
2020 Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Roble Studio Theater, Stanford University · Stanford, California · 2020
2019–2020 The Homes We Build Twin Alchemy Lab · Austin, Texas · 2019 Electric Dreams Festival Online · London, England / online · 2020
2017–2019 Blue Spiral by Nadine Mozon International Congress of the Performing Arts · Morelia, Mexico · 2019 FronteraFest · Austin, Texas · 2017 Texas State University · San Marcos, Texas · 2018
2019 Fragments and Dialogues by Kate Soper Seattle Symphony · Seattle, Washington · 2019
2019 Kate Soper and Friends by Kate Soper New York Festival of Song, DiMenna Center · New York City · 2019
Development 2017–2019 The Romance of the Rose Opera America / Women Composer Residency · New York City · 2017 (development) The Tank / Peak Performances · Montclair, New Jersey · 2019 (development) Peak Performances · Montclair, New Jersey · 2020 (canceled due to COVID)
2019 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Piggott Theater, Stanford University · Stanford, California · 2019
2018 Ragtime Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre, Texas State University · San Marcos, Texas · 2018
2018 Uma Sonata Familiar by Coletivo Teatro MainStage Theatre, Texas State University · San Marcos, Texas · July 14, 2018
Development 2016 Wild Places by Joanna Garner Groundswell ATX / Rude Mechs, The Off Center · Austin, Texas · 2016 (development) The Off Center · Austin, Texas · 2019
2011–2015 Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead in the Lydian Mode by Wolf 359, Michael Yates Crowley Dixon Place · New York City · 2011 CATCH 52 at the Bushwick Starr · New York City · 2012 IRT Theater · New York City · 2012 The Public Theater, Joe's Pub · New York City · 2013 American Repertory Theater, Oberon · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2015
2014 Mistrovská Díla by Petr Kotík, Petr Kotík with Michael Rau Paula Cooper Gallery · New York City · 2014 Jiří Myron Theatre — world premiere and festival commission · Ostrava, Czech Republic · 2014
2014 The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti New Jersey City University · Jersey City, New Jersey · 2014
2013 David's Red Haired Death by Sherry Kramer La Sala at Cantina Royal · Brooklyn, New York · 2013
2012 Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, Ruth and Thomas Martin Frederic Loewe Theater · New York City · March 31–April 3, 2011
2012 Machinal by Sophie Treadwell Atlantic Stage 2 Theater · New York City · October 24–27, 2012
2009–2012 Righteous Money by Michael Yates Crowley Ars Nova · New York City · 2009 Theater Bielefeld · Bielefeld, Germany · 2010 Voices of Change Festival · Berlin, Germany · 2010 59E59 Theaters · New York City · 2010 Pleasance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe · Edinburgh, Scotland · 2010 Schlosstheater Moers · Moers, Germany · 2011 Project Arts Centre · Dublin, Ireland · 2011 3LD Art & Technology Center · New York City · 2012 Ringlokschuppen · Mülheim, Germany · 2012
2011 Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl CFA Theater, Wesleyan University · Middletown, Connecticut · February 24–26, 2011
2010 Absent by Michael Rau, Jeremy Paul Detroit Superior Bridge — IngenuityFest · Cleveland, Ohio · United States · 2010
2010 Liebeslieder Waltzes Provincetown Playhouse, New York University · New York City · 2010
2010 Real Dogs by Michael Yates Crowley Tribeca Performing Arts Center · New York City · June 10–11, 2010
2010 Was Übrig Bleibt by Thomas Bradshaw TAM Zwei, Theater Bielefeld · Bielefeld, Germany · 2010 Voices of Change Festival · Berlin, Germany · 2010
2009 Down in the Valley Players Theatre, New York University · New York City · 2009
2009 Evanston: A Rare Comedy by Michael Yates Crowley PS122 · New York City · 2009 National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center · Waterford, Connecticut · 2013 (development) HERE Arts Center · New York City · August 3–5, 2009
2009 Le Bestiaire The Bushwick Starr · New York City · 2009
2009 Rag Fur Blood Bone by Michael Yates Crowley Tribeca Performing Arts Center · New York City · March 28–29, 2009
2009 The Coffee Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach Players Theatre, New York University · New York City · December 11–13, 2009
2008 The Great God Brown by Eugene O'Neill The Riverside Theatre · New York · United States · February 20–23, 2008
2007–2008 Gypsy Moth by Kelley Girod Schapiro Theater, Columbia University · New York City · 2007 The Tank · New York City · 2007 Kraine Theater · New York City · 2008
2008 On Life and Love: Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook Gallatin Black Box Theater · New York City · December 5–7, 2008
2008 The Bird The Bushwick Starr · New York City · 2008
2007–2008 The Ted Haggard Monologues by Michael Yates Crowley The Collective:Unconscious · New York City · 2007 Theater am Alten Markt · Bielefeld, Germany · 2008
2007 (An evening of Beckett short plays) Schapiro Theater, Columbia University · New York City · 2007
2007 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Schapiro Theater, Columbia University · New York City · October 27–29, 2006
2005 As I Lay Dying 92 Theater, Wesleyan University · Middletown, Connecticut · April 2005
2005 The Games We Used to Play by Max Goldblatt and Michael Rau 3047 North Lincoln · Chicago, Illinois · August 2004 Wesleyan University · Middletown, Connecticut · September 2004 Colgate University · Hamilton, New York · December 2004
2004 Woyzeck The 92 Theater, Wesleyan University · Middletown, Connecticut · 2004
2003 Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor Greene Room, Wesleyan University · Middletown, Connecticut · 2002

Awards and fellowships

2026 ATHE–ASTR Excellence in Digital Scholarship Award for MIME, ATHE / ASTR
2026 Creative Futures Fellowship, Stanford University Office of the Vice President for the Arts
2024 Digital Theater Fellowship, Akademie für Theater und Digitalität · Dortmund, Germany
2024 Stochastic Labs Fellowship, Stochastic Labs · Berkeley, California
2019 Opera Beyond finalist for The Memory Room, Finnish National Opera
2016 Usual Suspect Fellowship, New York Theatre Workshop · New York, New York
2014 Likhachev Fellowship, Likhachev Foundation · St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 Festival selection for The Great God Brown, USA Pavilion, Prague Quadrennial Selected for both set design and light design
2010 Directors Lab, Lincoln Center · New York, New York
2008 Noteworthy Production, Four Saints in Three Acts, Opera America Director/Designer Competition
2008 National Conference Grant, Theatre Communications Group
2008 Shubert Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts Assistant to Robert Woodruff on the world-premiere opera Appomattox
2007 Artistic Excellence Prize for direction of The Ted Haggard Monologues, undergroundzero festival
2007 Shubert Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts Assistant to Les Waters on the world premiere of Cardenio
2007 Directing Fellow, University Playwrights Workshop, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · Washington, DC
2006 Directing Fellow, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · Washington, DC
2006 Willard Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts

Residencies

2025 Arts and Technology Commission, Ammerman Center, Connecticut College Declined due to scheduling
2017 Forward/Story, Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab · Bintan, Indonesia
2016 Forward/Story, Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab · Playa Guiones, Costa Rica
2016 SLAC Lab, Salt Lake Acting Company · Salt Lake City, Utah
2015 Summer Residency, New York Theatre Workshop / Adelphi University · Long Island, New York
2014 The Orchard Project, The Orchard Project · Hunter, New York
2014 E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency, Earthdance · Plainfield, Massachusetts
2008–2010 Artist-in-Residence, Tribeca Performing Arts Center · New York, New York Two-year residency with Michael Yates Crowley
2008 Production Development Residency, One Year Lease · Papingo, Greece Two-month devising residency for a production based on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull

Grants

2026 Improving Motion Modeling with Dance Expertise for Archiving and Analysis, Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute $20,000 · January 2026
2025 Jen Silverman Visit, Stanford University Office of the Vice President for the Arts ArtsCatalyst Grant $700 · January 3–March 15, 2025
2023 Orchestra Orpheus Opus Onus, Stanford University Office of the Vice President for the Arts Faculty Creative Project Seed Grant $20,000 · September 24, 2023–June 2025
2021 Digital Performers Using AI, Google Artists and Machine Intelligence Research Award $20,000 · December 2, 2021
2021 The Future of Digital Performance Making: A Convening, Stanford University Office of the Vice President for the Arts Burt McMurtry Arts Initiative Grant $5,000 · December 2021–July 2022
2020 Digital Performers Using AI, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence HAI Seed Grant $75,000 · November 2020–December 2021
2020 StageCast: A Digital Theater Tool, Stanford University Ethics, Society and Technology Hub $25,000 · September 2020–August 2021
2020 Intersections Podcast, Stanford University Office of the Vice President for the Arts COVID-19 Creative Community Response Grant $600 · May–September 2020
2020 Visiting artist support for Haruna Lee, Stanford University Office of the Arts Mohr Visiting Artist Fellowship
2019 Visiting artist support for scenic designer Sara Walsh, Stanford University Office of the Arts Mohr Visiting Artist Fellowship
2018 International visitorship for Professor Nitza Tenenblat, Stanford Humanities Center
2017 Site-Specific Theater and Location-Based Technology, Texas State University Information Technology Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant $5,000 · June 1–December 1, 2017
2017 Collaborative Devising Strategies in Brazil, Texas State University Research Enhancement Program Grant $8,000 · June 1–August 30, 2017

Publications

2025 Stylistic Analyses of Human Pose in Theatrical Performances: Computational and Historical Frameworks Peter Broadwell, Michael Rau, Simon Wiles Anthology of Computers and the Humanities 3, Computational Humanities Research 2025, pp. 1481–1492
2020 temping: On Technological Immersion, Surveillance and Existential Angst in One-to-One Performances Yana Meerzon, Michael Rau Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, the IATC journal/Revue de l’AICT, no. 21
2014 How Do We Make It? Directors and the New Theater Landscape Will Davis, Michael Rau HowlRound

Invited speaking

2026 Why I Work With (and Against) AI in the Theater, Aesth:ethics, Akademie für Theater und Digitalität · Dortmund, Germany
2026 Making Connections, Breaking Systems: Hamlet.ai and the Theater, Laboratoire International de Recherche sur l’Image et la Scénographie / IRET, Sorbonne Nouvelle · Paris, France
2026 AI and Embodiment, AI + Live Arts Summit, UCLA · Leonard Nimoy Theater, Los Angeles, California
2026 The Director’s Signature: Computational and Historical Perspectives on Theatrical Stylometry via Pose and Action Recognition, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University · Wallenberg Hall, Stanford, California
2025 Artistic Collaboration with AI: One Dead-End and Three Promising Paths, Generative Acts, American Society for Theatre Research · Denver, Colorado
2025 AI and the Future of Theater, NextGenAI · Teatro di San Marco, Naples, Italy
2025 Distant Viewing, Close Reading: Computer Vision in the Theater, Association of Nordic Theater Scholars / Lithuanian Culture Research Institute · Vilnius, Lithuania
2025 Act II—New Tech and New Stage; Futures in Play: AI and Impact in Theatre, Ars Electronica Conference · Linz, Austria
2025 Between Human and Algorithm, Worlds in Play Conference · Allerton Park and Conference Center, Monticello, Illinois
2025 Shaping Narratives in the Digital Age, Residenztheater, State Theater of Bavaria · Munich, Germany
2025 Pose Detection in the Theater: Implications and Futures, KiU Talks, Fulldome Dortmund U · Dortmund, Germany
2025 Stage Directions: Navigating Theater’s AI Future, Fachhochschule Dortmund, University of Applied Sciences and Arts · Dortmund, Germany
2025 Decoding Directorial Style | Using Pose & Action Estimation to Analyze Theater Performances, Stanford HAI Seminar · Gates Building, Stanford University
2021 AI and the Performing Arts, Research at the Intersection of Human Science and Information Technologies for Creativity, Collaboration, and AI / Facebook and MediaX at Stanford · Stanford, California
2019 Comunicação Digital e Novas Mídias, University of São Paulo · São Paulo, Brazil
2019 Methodologies and Explorations for Digital Theater, University of Brasília · Brasília, Brazil
2017 Directing in the Digital Age: A Framework, University of Brasília · Brasília, Brazil
2016 What Live Performance Can Teach Us About VR; or Five Meditations on Creating Immersive Experiences, Books in Browsers Conference · San Francisco, California
2016 The Economics of Creating Personalized Experiences at Scale, Future of Storytelling Festival · New York, New York
2016 Temping with Wolf 359, StoryCode at Lincoln Center · New York, New York
2012 Keynote Performance: Righteous Money, Bodies on Stage, 21st Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English · Mülheim, Germany

Education

2008 MFA, Theater Directing, Columbia University · New York, New York Thesis: He Lives by Mending: O’Neill’s The Great God Brown in Performance
2005 BA, Theater and American Studies, Wesleyan University · Middletown, Connecticut