DAVID GLENN ARMSTRONG
Director

David Glenn Armstrong has staged over 150 productions, workshops and readings seen in 49 states at theatres including the New York Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed Opera, Walnut Street Theatre, Long Wharf, Manhattan Theatre Club, Library of Congress, Amas, York Theatre, Arkansas Rep, NYMF, Chicago Humanities Festival, Anchorage Opera, HERE, Iowa Shakespeare Festival, Pacific Repertory Opera, Mason Street Warehouse, Riverside Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Raw Impressions, New Dramatists, Aaron Davis Hall, Circle Rep Lab and the New York Fringe Festival. Career highlights include the first revival of Harold Arlen’s LIFE BEGINS AT 8:40 with Maestro Aaron Gandy, Kate Baldwin, Philip Chafin, Christopher Fitzgerald, Montego Glover, Rebecca Luker, Faith Prince, Graham Rowat and Jessica Stone; the first-ever revival of Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joe Stein’s THE BODY BEAUTIFUL with Maestro John Bell, Brad Oscar, Megan Lawrence, Mike McGowan and Laura Marie Duncan (also cast recording); the revival of Joe Stein’s PLAIN AND FANCY with Cady Huffman, Charlotte Rae, and Nancy Anderson; the first-ever revival of Lerner & Loewe’s THE DAY BEFORE SPRING with Hunter Bell, Amanda Watkins and Janine DaVita; the first post-Broadway production of his college classmate Jonathan Larson’s RENT; Joan Ross Sorkin’s (MIS)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: THE HATTIE McDANIEL STORY which earned Capathia Jenkins a Drama Desk nomination; the first sailing of Pam Tate and Erv Raible’s SHIP OF FOOLS with Karen Akers, Linda Balgord, Rita Gardner, Mark Jacoby, and Sean McDermott; the premiere of Ed Dixon’s SCENERY with Dixon and Lynne Wintersteller. His widely varied repertory includes ROMEO & JULIET, DREAMGIRLS, DON GIOVANNI, A CHORUS LINE, TARTUFFE, HAIR, and LA TRAVIATA.