
CRAIG BALDWIN
director
bio
Craig Baldwin directs extensively across Australia and the U.S. and Australia. He was the first Australian to graduate from the prestigious acting 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.
Recently, Craig directed Happy Days for Redline Productions at the Old Fitz in Sydney, and Hamlet for Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, DC, featuring Michael Urie. His 2019 production of Annie Baker's John for Outhouse Theatre Co at Seymour Centre garnered 6 nominations, including best director, 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 DC he has directed Macbeth and Coriolanus for the Shakespeare Theatre Company ACA program. Craig was Associate Director on The Secret Garden during its "pre-Broadway" run 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 by Cory Conley, receiving the Best Overall Production of a Play award in the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival. He has worked with Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, and many more over twenty years as an actor, and now director.
Craig was named an "artist of extraordinary ability" and made a permanent resident of the US. After 20 years in America, he has currently returned home to Sydney, and is serving as Artistic Associate at Outhouse Theatre Co.
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