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| David Petrarca was director at the Goodman Theatre from1988 until 2005 where credits include the new musical The House of Martin Guerre (Jeff Award, also at Canadian Stage), as well as the world premieres of Wendy MacLeod's Sin (also at Second Stage Theatre, off-broadway) and School Girl Figure, Tom Donaghy's Down the Shore, David Cale's Somebody Else's House and Deep in a Dream of You (also at the Public Theatre, off-Broadway), Sally Nemeth's Mill Fire (also at the Women's Project, off-Broadway), and Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room and its subsequent productions at the Hartford Stage, The Kennedy Center, Playwright's Horizons, off-Broadway's Minetta Lane (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Hampstead Theatre (London Fringe Award nomination), and in London's West End. Other Goodman productions include The Beard Of Avon, Design For Living, Richard II, Light Up The Sky, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Visit. Additional directing credits include the premiere of A Year With Frog And Toad on Broadway (Tony Nomination, Best Musical), the long-running off-Broadway musical Dinah Was (also National Tour), the world premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy Meers at Manhattan Theatre Club (also Minetta Lane, off-Broadway) and Kimberly Akimbo at South Coast Rep, world premiere of Wendy MacLeod's Juvenilia at Playwrights Horizons, world premiere of Michael John LaChuisa'a opera Lovers And Friends (Lyric Opera), the world premiere of David Marshall Grant's Current Events at Manhattan Theatre Club, the world premiere of The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod at Playwrights Horizons, the world premiere of Tom Donaghy's Northeast Local at Trinity Rep and Seattle Rep, world premiere of Chay Yew's Red at Long Wharf and Manhattan Theatre Club, Dark Rapture for ACT in San Francisco, A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Dallas Theater Center, The Tooth of Crime at Hartford Stage, Chicago productions of Keith Reddin's Peacekeeper for American Blues Theatre, Away, Nothing Sacred and Three Postcards at Northlight Theatre, and Lloyd's Prayer for Remains Theatre; as well as productions for Livent in Toronto, Canada, Midwest Playlabs in Minneapolis, the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., the Ohio Performance Space in New York City, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Woodstock Opera House. He was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Director Fellowship and has served as associate artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse and the Chelsea Theatre Centre in New York City, and on the NEA Theatre Panel. He has taught for North Carolina School of the Arts, the O'Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work for New York Stage and Film and Breadloaf.
Television credits include "Brothers and Sisters", and "Nothing Sacred" for ABC/FOX; "Studio 60" for NBC; "Joan Of Arcadia", "To Have and To Hold" and "Early Edition" for CBS; "Cupid" for ABC, "Pasadena" for FOX, '" Everwood", "Jack And Jill", "Popular", "Dawsons Creek", "Gilmore Girls", "Felicity", "Glory Days", for the WB.
He recently complted filming fo SAVE THE LAST DANCE II for Paramount Pictures. He is currently working on the screenplay of Schoolgirl Figure for HBO, and a film of Fuddy Meers In 1996, Mr. Petrarca was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as a "Chicagoan of the Year."
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