Ryan Rilette (Director) is in his fifth season as producing director at MTC, where he has directed Fuddy Meers, In The Red and Brown Water, boom and Magic Forest Farm. He will direct God of Carnage later this season. From 2002 to 2008, Rilette served as producing artistic director of Southern Rep in New Orleans, where he directed the world premieres of The Breach, Rising Water, The Sunken Living Room, The Vulgar Soul and The House of Plunder, and regional premieres of Kimberly Akimbo, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, and In Walks Ed. He has also directed for A.C.T.'s MFA program, New Theatre in Miami, the Tennessee Williams Festival, Soho Rep and The Flea, among others. He is president of the National New Play Network, co-founder and former executive artistic director of Rude Mechanicals Theatre Company in New York, and a former professor at Tulane and Loyola Universities.