Jon Kretzu is the Associate Artistic Director at
Artists Repertory Theatre, where he has directed
the world premiere of The New House as well as
Death of a Salesman, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's
Wild Christmas Binge, The Goat, Or Who is
Sylvia?, The Laramie Project, Dinner
with Friends, Master Class, Present
Laughter, A Question of Mercy,
Indiscretions, Keely and Du (1995
Drammy Award: Best Director), Love! Valour!
Compassion!, Breaking the Code, Chaps!,
The Sea, The Normal Heart, The Destiny
of Me, Buried Child, The Artificial Jungle,
Three Tall Women (USIA International Tour) and
Abundance. Other Portland directing credits include
Guys and Dolls for The Musical Theatre Company (1996
Drammy Award: Best Director of a Musical); Romeo and
Juliet, A Winter's Tale, Much Ado About
Nothing and As You Like It for Tygres Heart
Shakespeare Company; Waiting for Vern, Jeffrey,
Bent and The Sum of Us for triangle!
Productions; Broadway Bound and Hay Fever for
Portland Repertory Theater; The Importance of Being
Earnest and Chekhov in Yalta for New Rose
Theatre; The Mystery of Irma Vep for Storefront
Theatre; and Down the Road for the Oregon One-Act
Festival. Jon has also directed numerous productions in
Seattle, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles,
including Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Othello;
The Taming of the Shrew; A Doll's House;
Cloud 9; The Outsiders; The Swan;
Terra Nova; Reckless; Streamers;
Private Lives; Arms and The Man; 84 Charing
Cross Road, and Frankenstein. Jon was the
dramaturg for Portland Repertory Theater, has served as a
guest director and professor at a number of West Coast and
Midwest universities, and has worked as an acting coach in
Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland. This season Jon also
made his operatic directing debut at Milwaukee's Skylight
Opera Theatre with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio.
He has also served as the London and New York theater and
classical music correspondent for a variety of Northwest
newspapers and magazines.
Jon Kretzu is the Associate Artistic Director at
Artists Repertory Theatre, where he has directed
the world premiere of The New House as well as
Death of a Salesman, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's
Wild Christmas Binge, The Goat, Or Who is
Sylvia?, The Laramie Project, Dinner
with Friends, Master Class, Present
Laughter, A Question of Mercy,
Indiscretions, Keely and Du (1995
Drammy Award: Best Director), Love! Valour!
Compassion!, Breaking the Code, Chaps!,
The Sea, The Normal Heart, The Destiny
of Me, Buried Child, The Artificial Jungle,
Three Tall Women (USIA International Tour) and
Abundance. Other Portland directing credits include
Guys and Dolls for The Musical Theatre Company (1996
Drammy Award: Best Director of a Musical); Romeo and
Juliet, A Winter's Tale, Much Ado About
Nothing and As You Like It for Tygres Heart
Shakespeare Company; Waiting for Vern, Jeffrey,
Bent and The Sum of Us for triangle!
Productions; Broadway Bound and Hay Fever for
Portland Repertory Theater; The Importance of Being
Earnest and Chekhov in Yalta for New Rose
Theatre; The Mystery of Irma Vep for Storefront
Theatre; and Down the Road for the Oregon One-Act
Festival. Jon has also directed numerous productions in
Seattle, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles,
including Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Othello;
The Taming of the Shrew; A Doll's House;
Cloud 9; The Outsiders; The Swan;
Terra Nova; Reckless; Streamers;
Private Lives; Arms and The Man; 84 Charing
Cross Road, and Frankenstein. Jon was the
dramaturg for Portland Repertory Theater, has served as a
guest director and professor at a number of West Coast and
Midwest universities, and has worked as an acting coach in
Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland. This season Jon also
made his operatic directing debut at Milwaukee's Skylight
Opera Theatre with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio.
He has also served as the London and New York theater and
classical music correspondent for a variety of Northwest
newspapers and magazines.