Liz Diamond, Professor in the Practice, is the Chair of Directing at David Geffen School of Drama and Resident Director at Yale Repertory Theatre. Among the productions she has directed at Yale Rep and nationally are many world, US, and regional premieres, including Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Betting on the Dust Commander, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, and Father Comes Home From the Wars; Nilo Cruz’ Sotto Voce; Catherine Treischman’s Crooked; Lucinda Coxon’s Happy Now?; Octavio Solis’ Gibraltar; and Marcus Gardley’s dance of the holy ghosts. Productions of classical and modern works include Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, which she also translated, Blaise Cendrar’s La Prose du Transsibérien, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Euripides’ The Trojan Women, Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Racine’s Phèdre, Molière’s School for Wives, Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle and St Joan of the Stockyards, and Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Liz recently adapted and directed Maira Kalman’s beloved children’s book, Max Makes a Million for the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and directed Nilo Cruz’s radio drama Besos a Través del Crystal. Liz has served as Senior Artistic Advisor of the Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, as Resident Director of New Dramatists, and currently serves on the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She has been awarded the OBIE and the Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Direction. She has taught directing at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and at the Shanghai Theatre Academy has served as a Visiting Professor. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso for three years, co-founding the Projet de Théâtre Rurale, which continues today.