Rob Lutfy (he/him – Co-Director) was last at Marin Theatre Company in 2014-2015 as the National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence. Formerly as the Associate Artistic Director at Cygnet Theatre in San Diego, he directed 18 plays and produced 42 others over seven seasons. He was awarded the 2019 Craig Noel Award for Director of the Year. This season at Cygnet Theatre he will direct the world premieres of The Little Fellow by Kate Hamill and Sharon by Keiko Green. At Cygnet he was the head of new play development where he commissioned 20 plays by writers including: Miranda Rose Hall, Herbert Siguenza, Nathan Alan Davis, and Leah Nanako Winkler. He has developed plays at Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, The Theatre at Boston Court, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The John F Kennedy Center, The O’Neill Theatre Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Burning Coal Theatre, The Hub Theatre and Dual Rivet Dance Company. He has taught classes at San Diego State University, Grossmont College, and UCSD. He was the 2012-2013 William R. Kenan, Jr. Directing Fellow at The John F. Kennedy Center. Rob is a graduate of the directing program under Gerald Freedman at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Special thanks to his west coast parents, Rick and Cheryl Brandon.