Eric Tucker

Eric Tucker (Director) Off Broadway: Saint Joan (Best Revival 2014-Off Broadway Alliance; NY Times, Backstage Magazine critics pick; Best Revival 2012, Wall Street Journal), Hamlet (Time Out NY and Backstage Critics Pick), Tina Packer’s Women of Will: The Overview and Women of Will: The Complete Journey (Judson),  The Libertine (The Kirk), The Belle of Belfast (Cherry Lane).  Recent:  The Libertine (Boston Center for the Arts, Bridge Rep; Elliot Norton Nominee, Best Production; IRNE nomination, Best Director), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Saint Joan and Hamlet (Olney Theatre Center, MD), Hamlet (with William Hurt, Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles), Mate (The Actors’ Gang, L.A.), Macbeth (nominated Best Overall Production and Best Director by LA Weekly), Uranium and Peaches (with Ed Asner), Pinter’s Mirror, Bad Dates (Shakespeare and Co.), Women of Will the Complete Journey (Shakespeare and Co., Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Prague Shakespeare Festival, The Nora Theatre - Boston), Women of Will the Overview (Shakespeare and Co. and Mercury Theatre in Colchester, England), Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (Trinity Repertory Company), Saint Joan (L.A. Critics Circle top 10), Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Measure for Measure (Redlands Shakespeare Festival), Man of La Mancha, Sanctuary (North American Premiere, Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), Watership Down (World Premiere, Burning Coal), Macbeth, Closer (The Gamm), The Voyage of the Carcass (World Premiere, Brown Playwrights Festival), Angels in America Parts I & II, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III (Beowulf). The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (University of Utah). As an actor roles include: Hamlet, Iago, Henry V, Macbeth, Romeo, Malvolio, Orsino, Prince Hal, Master Ford, Benedick, Orlando, Laertes, Demetrius, Prior Walter (Angels in America: Parts 1 & 2), James (Time Stands Still), Don Quixote/Cervantes (Man of La Mancha), Dan (Closer), Pale (Burn This), Lee (True West), Rapunzel’s Prince/Florinda (Into the Woods).   Eric received his M.F.A. from the Trinity Rep Conservatory. He resides in New York City where he is Artistic Director of Bedlam.