About Aileen Wen McGroddy

Aileen Wen McGroddy is a Chinese- and Irish-American theatre director based in New York. Her work is rigorous, playful, and alive. She is a co-artistic director of TUTA Theatre Chicago and on faculty at Brown University. Upcoming work includes the world premiere of Talene Monahon’s Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret at Northern Stage. Past work includes: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt… (Woolly Mammoth), Cold War Choir Practice and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); Tom and Eliza and Attempts on Her Life (TUTA Theatre Chicago); The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); Sisters and Sense and Sensibility (Northern Stage); Airness (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); The Glass Menagerie, Or,, Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists); The Late Wedding, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, and The Tempest (Brown-Trinity); Kingdom, Cold War Choir Practice, Throwback Island, On The Y-Axis, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (Writing is Live); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Adelphi); Montauciel Takes Flight (Lifeline Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists); A Hero’s Journey, The Hunting of the Snark, Robin Hood, and The Pied Piper (The Forks & Hope Ensemble); The Whiskey Radio Hour, Wake: A Folk Opera, Kodachrome Telephone and Sign of Rain (The Whiskey Rebellion). She has developed work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Playwright’s Realm, NY Classical Theatre, The Yale Drama Prize, Ars Nova, and Northern Stage. Fellowships: Roundabout Directors Group, 2050 at NYTW, Beatrice Terry Fellow at the Drama League, and BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. MFA in Directing from Brown-Trinity.