Austin Regan

AUSTIN REGAN is a New York based stage director. Recent work includes a new production of Rigoletto at Minnesota Opera, which the Minneapolis Star Tribune lauded as "a scorching take on politics, patriarchy, and power"; the world premiere of Discount Ghost Stories at Local Theater in Boulder CO ("Hauntingly beautiful," Boulder Daily Camera), which won the True West award for excellence in immersive theater; Don Giovanni at FM Opera ("Great skill and vision . . . superb," Fargo Forum); the world premiere of Alexandra Silber's The Trojan Women (The Hangar Theatre); Mad Libs Live!, a new interactive musical for young audiences Off-Broadway at New World Stages; Left and Right, an experimental dance and musical performance that premiered at National Sawdust in Brooklyn and has also been presented at DE SINGEL in Antwerp and the Nimoy Theater in Los Angeles; Loose, Wet, Perforated (Guerilla Opera); Three Decembers (FM Opera); The Blind (The Flea Theater); Red Riding Hood (The Hangar Theatre); Peter Lerman's The Sacred Harp (Musical Theatre Factory); Spring Awakening (at the Boston Conservatory and at the Krannert Center/UIUC); Well Worn Words (Ars Nova); #MormonInChief (Kraine Theater); Horse Play (Dixon Place); Floyd Collins; and The Who's Tommy.

Regan is the Tour Director for the hit Broadway musical A Beautiful Noise, which is currently preparing for a major North American tour. They are also the Resident Director of the Drama Desk Award-winning Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, where they have directed an incredible lineup of replacement casts that include Lena Hall, Matt Doyle, Evan Rachel Wood, Darren Criss, Constance Wu, Corbin Bleu, Drew Gehling, Bryce Pinkham, Jinkx Monsoon, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Sarah Hyland.   

Austin has directed and developed new work at the PROTOTYPE Festival, National Sawdust, Ars Nova, New York Stage and Film, the Hangar Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pioneer Works, Joe's Pub, 54 Below, New York University, the Boston Conservatory, and the United Nations. His work as an Associate Director, mostly with Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer, includes Broadway musicals (A Beautiful Noise, Head Over Heels, American Idiot, Everyday Rapture, On A Clear Day…) and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Austin is a Drama League Directors Project Fellow, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a founding member of the Musical Theatre Factory, and a former Resident Director at the Flea Theater. He is the director of web series This Is Not A Comedy and Such Good Friends: A Tribute to Nichols and May, and of video projects for PROTOTYPE Festival (Out of a thought), National Sawdust (Left and Right), and Carnegie Hall (Side By Side).