Principal Staff

» Steven Woolf, Artistic Director
» Mark Bernstein, Managing Director
» Susan Gregg, Associate Artistic Director

Steven Woolf, Artistic Director

Steven Woolf (Artistic Director) received his B.A. in theatre and M.F.A. in directing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Missouri St. Louis. He is one of the first recipients of Webster University's Declaration of Merit.

For The Rep, he has directed The Crucible, Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Copenhagen, The Shape of Things, ART, Dinner With Friends, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Closer, Death of a Salesman, Betrayal, As Bees in Honey Drown, Skylight, A Question of Mercy, Arcadia, The Life of Galileo, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The Living, Death and the Maiden, Six Degrees of Separation, Sight Unseen, Other People's Money, Terra Nova, Dog Logic, The Voice of the Prairie, Company and A Life in the Theatre.

He directed the critically acclaimed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland. For the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University he has directed Jeffrey and The Crucible. For Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre he directed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Camelot, Crimes of the Heart, Driving Miss Daisy, Wait Until Dark, Lion in Winter, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Diary of Anne Frank, Born Yesterday and The Boys Next Door. His production of The Voice of the Prairie has been seen at Totem Pole Playhouse and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where he directed Skylight and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. He has directed plays such as The Physicists, The Fantasticks, U.S.A., The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Stop the World I Want To Get Off, Jacques Brel is Alive..., and many others around the country.

While in New York he served as the project producer of the original productions of The Robber Bridegroom and The Red Blue-Grass Western Flyer Show and was co-producer of Tom Griffin's Workers. Off-Off Broadway he directed Impulse and Chicken Soup and worked on The Acting Company's Broadway season at the Billy Rose Theatre. Stock work has taken him to places such as Lakewood Musical Playhouse, Ivoryton and Cecilwood Theatres. He has worked in major regional theatres including long-term residencies at the world famous Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, and at StageWest in Springfield, Massachusetts.

He is thrilled to have been honored by the Arts and Education Council which awarded him the St. Louis Arts Award for Individual Excellence in the Arts, and by the Missouri Citizens for the Arts which awarded The Rep its Arts Award for Advocacy, and he is pleased to be among the first recipients of "The Good Guy Award" given by the St. Louis Women's Political Caucus.

He was executive producer for the Opera Theatre/Muny Opera production of A Grand Night for Singing and produced the AIDS benefit at Powell Hall in 1988. He serves as a panelist and an on-site evaluator for the Theatre Program for the National Endowment for the Arts and served on the advisory panel for the Regional Arts Commission and the ad hoc committees for program assistance and touring for the Missouri Arts Council. He served on the executive committee and the national negotiating committee for the League of Resident Theatres. He is on the Board of Missouri Citizens for the Arts and is a trustee of the IATSE Local #6 health fund. He has been on the faculty of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School under John Houseman and is adjunct faculty at Webster University.

Mark Bernstein, Managing Director

Mark Bernstein (Managing Director) is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has managed nonprofit professional theatres since 1982. Since he assumed the management leadership of The Rep in 1987, the theatre has enjoyed a period of sustained growth, strong community support, an endowment fund that has grown more than tenfold, and an expansion of programming through the introduction of the Off-Ramp series.

Favorite shows from 20 seasons at The Rep include Candide, The Voice of the Prairie, Terra Nova, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, Six Degrees of Separation, Young Rube, The Living, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The Life of Galileo, Arcadia, Sweeney Todd, An Ideal Husband, Into the Woods, Inherit the Wind, Proof, The Crucible, Take Me Out, and, of course, the great Shaw plays: Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Man and Superman.

He currently serves as Vice President of the League of Resident Theatres, having previously served on the Executive Committee and numerous national negotiating committees. He serves on the Arts Leadership Council for Webster University’s Arts Leadership Program and has taught in the Nonprofit Management Center at Washington University, has served on the Board of Directors of the Arts and Education Council and on the Citizens Advisory Panel for the Regional Arts Commission. Before coming to St. Louis, he spent six years at the Philadelphia Drama Guild and taught financial management for nonprofit arts institutions at Drexel University.

He is a Sondheim fanatic, and travels the world in search of the perfect Sweeney Todd, the best goat cheese tarts and the best chocolate desserts. Upon request, he will send out his list of the best chocolate desserts in the United States. His hair is styled by the official Hair Stylist of Miss U.S.A. 2004.

Susan Gregg, Associate Artistic Director

Susan Gregg (Associate Artistic Director) has spent most of her career directing and/or dramaturging new plays around the country, including New Dramatists in New York City (where she was director-in-residence, and later director of script development and marketing), at MidWest PlayLabs, at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut, at the Humana Festival, The Gathering at Big Fork, and, of course, here in St. Louis. Last season Susan directed Bug in the Off-Ramp series and Yellowman in the Studio; this season she directs Caryl Churchill’s A Number in the Studio.

She has directed new and not new work in Florida, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, D.C., Michigan, Iowa, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, North and South Carolina and scores of plays here at home in Missouri. Susan continues to love team teaching plays about medical issues in the Humanities Program in Medicine at Washington University Medical School…a direct outgrowth of Wit here at The Rep a few years ago.