director

Craig Baldwin directs extensively across Australia and USA. He was the first Australian to graduate from the prestigious drama program at The Juilliard School and has served as Artistic Associate at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and Associate Artistic Director of Red Bull Theater in New York. 

In Sydney, Craig directed premieres of Eureka Day, A Case for the Existence of God, Consent, and Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Recently, he also directed Benjamin Britten's Opera "The Turn of the Screw" at Hayes Theatre co. The Sydney Morning Herald praised his production of Happy Days for Redline at the Old Fitz, starring Belinda Giblin, saying: “You’d be mad to miss it.” . His 2019 production of Annie Baker's John for Outhouse Theatre Co at Seymour Centre garnered 6 nominations, and the award for Best Independent Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards. He also helmed the Sydney premieres of The Flick and The Aliens.

In America, he directed Hamlet for Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, DC, featuring Michael Urie, as well as Macbeth and Coriolanus for the ACA program. Craig was Associate Director on The Secret Garden during its runs at 5th Avenue in Seattle, TUTS in Houston, and Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC. He also directed the world premieres of C.O.A.L. (confessions of a liar) at 59E59 and The More Loving One, receiving the Best Overall Production of a Play award in the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival. 

Craig has worked with Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Irish Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Repertory Theatre of St Louis, Shakespeare and Co., and many more as an actor and director.

After 20 years in America, Craig has returned home to Sydney, and is serving as Artistic Associate at Outhouse Theatre Co.