Brian Russell is the former artistic director of American Theater Company. He is currently a freelance director/music director and artist-in-residence at The Breakthrough Group.
He directed the Jeff-nominated "Scapin" at ATC last season. Other successful productions at ATC include "The Threepenny Opera" and Studs Terkel's "Working". He has also directed the acclaimed "The Millions Bells of Ocean", "Flight of the Phoenix," "The Homage That Follows," and "Train of Thought," as well as the hit "Always... Patsy Cline." He has directed the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists' "La Boheme" and "Amistad" in 1997-8, and will lead their "Barber of Seville" and "Romeo and Juliet" this season. He directed the Sarasota Opera's season opener, "Carmen," in February 1999.
Born the son of an Episcopalian minister from a small town near Buffalo, New York, Russell got his first directing gig accidentally at the age of 22, when he was music director of The Fantasticks at an upstate New York summer performance. The director was fired, and Russell was asked to try his hand.
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