eric ting

ERIC TING is Associate Artistic Director at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT. In his seventh season now, recent directing credits include the world premiere of THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (which he also co-adapted) at Long Wharf, Anna Deavere Smith’s LET ME DOWN EASY (American Repertory Theatre), and Donald Margulies’ SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT… (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Other Long Wharf directing credits include SYLVIA, BAD DATES, THE BLUEST EYE (a co-production with Hartford Stage), and UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL (Connecticut Critics Circle awards for Best Director and Best Production of a Play). Upcoming at Long Wharf: AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP by Aditi Kapil and John Patrick Shanley’s ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION.

Recent developmental workshops include Jackie Sibblies’ WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION… at the 2010 Ignition Festival (Victory Gardens, Chicago) and Hana Sharif’s THE RISE AND FALL OF DAY (Hartford Stage BRAND:NEW), as well as work with the LARK New Play Development Center (NYC), Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis) and Long Wharf. Upcoming: AGNES at Playwright’s Center, Minneapolis, and Arena Stage, DC.

Ting’s work has been presented internationally, including France, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bali. He has an MFA in Performance Studies from the International Actor Training Academy – University of Tennessee; and has extensive training in Balinese topeng. He has taught acting, directing, mask, and puppetry in various workshops across the country, is a regular guest artist at the National Theatre Institute (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center), and has led playwriting workshops for survivors of domestic violence. He has served on multiple theatre grant panels, including TCG, NEA and the McKnight Fellowship.

Ting is a founding member of the artists collective INTELLIGENT BEASTS as well as COMPANY AJAR and an affiliated artist with the LARK New Play Development Center in New York City. Awards and grants include a TCG New Generations Future Leaders fellowship and a Jerome and Roslyn Milstein Meyer Career Development Prize. Ting was recently featured in AMERICAN THEATRE magazine’s 25th Anniversary issue as one of 25 theatre artists looking forward towards the next 25 years.