Tyler Marchant

TYLER MARCHANT served as the Associate Artistic Director at the multiple award-winning Off-Broadway Theatre, Primary Stages in New York City from 2000-2006. His work on new plays led him to Primary Stages where he worked with playwrights such as Terrence McNally, Horton and Daisy Foote, Stephen Belber, John Henry Redwood, A.R. Gurney, Lee Blessing, Michele Lowe, Christopher Durang and many others. Other New York directing work includes several productions, workshops and readings of new plays by Neil LaBute, Edwin Sanchez, Stephen Belber, Steven Dietz, Victor Lodato, Julie Jordan, Dan O'Brien, Anthony Clarvoe, and Lucy Thurber, among others.

During his tenure at Primary Stages, Tyler was the director of the New American Writer's Group where he worked with writers to develop and create new plays for the American Theatre. Tyler has worked at theatres such as Primary Stages, Guthrie Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Trustus, with British playwright Gary Owen's The Drowned World and Michael Wynne's The People are Friendly as part of the Old Vic/New Voices international playwright exchange in conjunction with the Old Vic in London, and served as the Associate Director of the Broadway production of On Golden Pond starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams as well as the national tour starring Tom Bosley and Michael Learned. He directed the World Premiere of India Awaiting at the Samuel Beckett theatre in NYC and the World Premiere Prudence, at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. While at Primary Stages, Tyler has worked with some of the premiere actors working in NYC including Isabella Rossellini, Richard Thomas, Nathan Lane, Marian Seldes, Charles Kimbrough, Charles Grodin, Sandy Duncan, Mary Testa, Ellen McClaughlin, George Grizzard, among others.

He is currently under Commission from Williamstown Theatre Festival to co-conceive and direct a new play with playwright Dan O'Brien. He most recently directed a production of Cloud 9 at Pennsylvania Center Stage, the World Premiere of the musical Anne of Green Gables (by Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in NYC, and Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso at Barrington Stage Company. This summer he will be represented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the Fringe First Award winning play BASIC TRAINING by Kahlil Ashanti. From 2001-2006, Tyler served as the Vice-President of the Association of Non-Profit Theatres Companies (ANTC) in New York City. Tyler received the prestigious Doris Duke/Andrew W. Mellon/TCG "New Generations Grant" to aid and assist his work in the non-profit theatre sector. Tyler received his M.F.A. in directing at the University of South Carolina, and is a member of SSDC.

tmarchan@uwsp.edu