Gilbert McCauley
Graduate Program Director | Professor of Directing
B.A. Oklahoma City University
M.F.A. University of Illinois, Directing
Gilbert McCauley is a Full Professor in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has served as the Producing Artistic Director of Oakland Ensemble Theatre, Resident Director at Brown University’s Rites and Reason Theatre, as an acting company member of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and he is an alum of New York Drama League Directors Project.
Mr. McCauley has directed Off-Broadway and at regional theatres around the country including Arena Stage, Arkansas Repertory Theater, Franklin Stage Company, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage and the National Theatre of Ghana. His directing credits include, Kyle Bass’ The Civilities, Salt City Blues; August Wilson’s Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Fences, and Two Trains Running; Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard; Lynn Nottage’s Sweat; The Mountaintop by Katori Hall; Jackie Sibblies Drury, We are Proud to Present...; The Call by Tanya Barfield, Cheryl L. West’s FANNIE: The Music & Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, Jar the Floor and Puddin’ & Pete; The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez; Gees Bend by Elyzabeth Gregory-Wilder; Hell in High Water and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley; Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon; Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play; and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Most recently he directed a short film by Kyle Bass entitled NORTHEAST which is currently making the festival circuit.