Will Pomerantz, Associate Director

Will Pomerantz is a director known for developing bold new plays and musicals across many of America’s leading theatres, including American Repertory Theatre, Second Stage, The Guthrie, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, and more.

Will's work includes world premieres by celebrated playwrights such as John Guare, David Auburn, Neil LaBute, Craig Lucas, Kia Corthron, David Lindsay-Abaire, Stephen Belber, Noah Haidle, Linda Cho, and Carey Perloff, alongside productions of classical texts by Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shakespeare, Shaw, and Sophocles.

Pomerantz’s production of THE BLUE FLOWER earned sweeping acclaim, winning multiple Elliot Norton and I.R.N.E. Awards and later being named one of Bloomberg’s “10 Best Productions of the Year” in New York, with a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. His staging of THE SHAPE OF THINGS received a Helen Hayes Award and was cited among the year’s best by The Washington Post.

The first American director invited to work at the National Theatre of Poland, Pomerantz is currently Associate Artistic Director of Bay Street Theater, where his directing credits include RAGTIME, EVITA, and THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO.