Luan Schooler

Interim Artistic Director

Luan Schooler (she/her) joined Artists Rep in 2015 when she was brought in to establish Table|Room|Stage, a program to create and support new plays. There she commissioned, developed, and premiered work with notable American playwrights including Yussef El Guindi (The Talented Ones), Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play), Hansol Jung (Wolf Play), Kareem Fahmy (American Fast), Diana Burbano (Sapience), and commissioned and supported new plays from E.M. Lewis, Dael Orlandersmith, Ethan Slater & Nick Blaemire, Linda Alper, Andrea Stolowitz, Anthony Hudson, and more. Prior to joining Artists Rep, she was the Literary Manager/Dramaturg for Berkeley Rep, and served as dramaturg for the new Play On! translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Lisa Peterson, developed E.M. Lewis’s Strange Birds and Linda Alper’s Shanghai at the UCSB Launch Pad program, and worked with Regan Linton and M. Graham Smith on FDR’s Very Happy Hour at the Off-Center in Denver. During her time at Artists Rep, she has directed the world premieres of The Thanksgiving Play, The Event!, and The Storyteller, along with productions of A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Children, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (co-directed with Dámaso Rodríguez), True Story, and The Bed Trick. She is the Interim Artistic Director for Artists Rep.