Craig Slaight:  

Craig Slaight (Director/Acting Teacher) was a Resident Artist and the Director of the Young Conservatory at American Conservatory Theater from 1988-2016. During his time at A.C.T. Craig taught in all of the Conservatory programs, served as a resident director on the Geary Theater mainstage and was a member of the senior team of the company. Slaight began the Young Conservatory’s New Plays Program (now the Grace Magill New Plays Program) in 1989 with the mission to develop plays by outstanding professional playwrights that view the world through the eyes of the young. To date over 40 new plays have been developed and produced, twenty of which are collected in publications by Smith and Kraus publishers, New Plays from the A.C.T. Young Conservatory, Volumes I, II, III, IV and V. "Volume II" received recognition from the New York Public Library as an Outstanding Book for the Teenage in 1997. Slaight is also the author of the book for five musicals (Across the Universe, I’m Still Standing, Fields of Gold, Beautiful Child and Homefront) each of which had their premiere in the Grace Magill New Plays Program. By special request of the Noël Coward Foundation, Slaight created Bright Young People, a musical revue featuring youthful characters and songs from Coward's oeuvre. In 1999, Slaight forged a collaboration with the prestigious Royal National Theatre in London, working on developing new plays for young people (UK writers have included Bryony Lavery, Sarah Daniels, Sharman Macdonald, DC Jackson, Ursula Rani Sarma and Jodie Marshall). In 2000, Slaight’s Young Conservatory production of Time on Fire by Timothy Mason was the first production by a young American company to ever play the Royal National Theatre. ...Expand for more