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William Sanders is in his 12th season at Civic being hired as artistic director in 1991. He has had the pleasure of working at Lincoln Center Theater, the Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Rattlestick in New York, and at the Ahmanson/Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. He assisted Joe Mantello on several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including the Tony Award-winning Love! Valour! Compassion!, Design for Living, Blue Window, Proposals, and A Man of No Importance. He stage managed the Off-Broadway productions of The Vagina Monologues and the Obie-Award winning Saved or Destroyed? for Rattlestick Theatre, where he served as Associate Artistic Director. He has directed Trust, Dance in the Giddy Circle, jasonSongs and the readings of many new plays, regionally and in New York City.
In more than a decade at Civic, he has brought 20 premieres to the Lehigh Valley, including The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, The Normal Heart, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, Falsettos, Arcadia, Six Degrees of Separation and Angels in America. Bill was the recipient of the 1998 Allentown Arts Ovation Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts.
He is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Actor's Equity. | 